As admin, send email to all users

Th0mC

Hi all,
Is there any way to send an email (a post?) to all forum users as admin user?
My goal would be to be able, as admin, to notify all users on specific posts.
Looking for that I understood that

it actually wasn't possible
it should be possible with flagrow/subsribed extension (https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6460-flagrow-subscribed-additional-event-subscriptions) but for now, not compatible with last Flarum version.

I would like to be sure there is no way to do that at this stage.

Thanks in advance
Thomas

clarkwinkelmann

Th0mC mass mailing is possible with the mailing extension, that feature was previously part of flagrow/users-list.

I have not yet tagged an official release of this extension though. It should be done in the coming weeks along with the extension discussion.

But I'm not sure if it actually fits the case you are describing ? It only allows you to write messages you typed (or copy-pasted) yourself

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clarkwinkelmann thanks - this is extremely useful for broadcast (subject to GDPR acceptance of course)

Th0mC

clarkwinkelmann Thanks! So I can give it a try with current version of flarum?

Th0mC

clarkwinkelmann Works fine. That's not exactly what I needed but at least I was able to send a message to all my users 😀 . Thanks
What I could suggest is to add markdown format of the outgoing message if possible 😉.
Thomas

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Th0mC Yes. Works fine for me.

collins

Send mail to all users not working "oops something went wrong", but sending mail to single user works. So my email flow works fine just don't know why I can send to all users. Any suggestions?

clarkwinkelmann

collins please get the full error message from the log file at <flarum>/storage/logs and copy it here.

adam42

Is this the best extension to use for newsletter functionality? I wish as admin to email all forum members regularly.

Thanks.

clarkwinkelmann

adam42 there's no singular "best" solution. I believe two different solutions are offered above. The Subscribed extension that allows users to receive notification of new discussions if they choose to do so, and the Mailing extension which allows sending emails to some groups or everyone without an option for the user to opt out.

There isn't an extension for proper newsletters at this time. If you need the ability for users to subscribe and unsubscribe, I recommend using an external newsletter service.

I will probably publish an extension that allows integrating Flarum with Infomaniak Newsletters in the near future, which adds a newsletter option in the user settings which uses the remote Infomaniak API to sync subscription status. Something similar could be built for any third-party newsletter service that offers an API.

Braden

Clark on the mailing extension, Recipients, it usually attach Members , sometimes we like to send an email to only one person. So having a young employed admin can forget to backspace Members, and punch in send

clarkwinkelmann

Braden there's one button to send email to everyone with "Members" as preset, but you can also start an email from a user profile, in which case the preset will be that user only.