Any plugin to send email to all users around there? useful to newsletter or urgent notification to the community.
Huh, that's strange one doesn't exist yet, I looked around for a bit and couldn't find one.
Anyway, the methods were pretty easy to figure out, I can fancy this up and package it later today.
var sender_uid = 0, start = 0, limit = 100;
async.waterfall([
function (next) {
db.getObjectField('global', 'userCount', next);
},
function (count, next) {
User.getUsersFromSet('users:joindate', sender_uid, start, count, next);
},
function (users, next) {
console.log('Sending emails to users ('+users.length+'): ');
async.eachLimit(users, limit, function(userObj, next) {
console.log('sending to uid ' + userObj.uid);
emailer.send('test', userObj.uid, { // templates/emails/test.tpl
subject: 'Test Email',
username: userObj.username
});
return next();
}, next);
}
], function (err, results) {
console.log('Done sending emails.');
});
If you use mandrill as an emailer. You can export your users as a csv file and load them into mandrill and email from there.
@yariplus You don't have to get the userCount you can use -1 for the getUsersFromSet method and it will grab all the uids.
Ideally though since you only need username/uid you can grab that directly instead of calling getUsersFromSet which does a bunch of other stuff.
var sender_uid = 0, limit = 100;
async.waterfall([
function(next) {
db.getSortedSetRange('users:joindate', 0, -1, next);
},
function (next) {
User.getMultipleUserFields(uids, ['uid', 'username'], next);
},
function (users, next) {
console.log('Sending emails to users ('+users.length+'): ');
async.eachLimit(users, limit, function(userObj, next) {
console.log('sending to uid ' + userObj.uid);
emailer.send('test', userObj.uid, { // templates/emails/test.tpl
subject: 'Test Email',
username: userObj.username
});
return next();
}, next);
}
], function (err, results) {
console.log('Done sending emails.');
});
@a_5mith That's sounds like a good/better way to do it.
Do you think there would be any problems with the way I send them above?
@baris Ah! Wonderful. Thank you.
Here you go
I added a drop-down with all the groups instead of always sending to everyone.
I also remove any user who is banned.
Issues/Todos:
Depending on the email plugin you use this can be made pretty simple. Although @yariplus has basically solved your problem, if you are using mailgun you can send out a mass emial via the csv download from the ACP.
I wrote a little blog post about this a while back - http://blog.bitbangers.co.uk/sending-emails-with-python-and-mailgun/
@yariplus testing it, thanks for the effort
teste it and works perfect , email received only the groups selected
only problem is the plan text, it doesn't let you line breaks etc
thanks for the good job
Pretty sure you'd need to set the content type.
Content-Type": "text/html" Or something like that.
