[TriLUG] Mass mailing ideas

[Dave Sorenson]

To answer the original question.. One quick and extremely dirty way is
to use open office mail merge to generate emails from your
spreadsheet. I used this to send out batches of 100 messages to about
700 users. You can pull any of the fields from your spreadsheet to
customize the message. I wouldnt use this for stuff I had to send over
and over and you may need to limit how many you send at once depending
on your outbound server, but it worked for us.

Before everyone slams this it is limited and has its issues I well
know, but it did work.


Dave

On Tuesday, January 18, 2011, Justis Peters <jtrilug at indythinker.com> wrote:
> To do that securely, you would need to send a unique link to each user with a one-time hash that authenticates them as already having access to the existing email account.
>
> Or, you could send them a newly generated password and insist that they change it on first login. As far as security goes, they're just about equivalent.
>
> Kind regards,
> Justis
> On 01/18/2011 04:56 PM, Ron Kelley wrote:
>
> Not to directly answer your question, but...
>
> Why would you include someone's password in an email?  Also, why not just ask them to visit a portal where they can enter their current email address and find out their new email address (then, enter a new password there)?  Using this method, you could actually track who logged in and found their new address...
>
>
>
> -Ron
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Douglas Ward wrote:
>
>
> We are in the process of migrating 1300+ e-mail accounts from one system to
> another.  As part of this process I must take a spreadsheet with 1300+
> e-mail addresses and new passwords, insert the information into a form
> message and send it out to every account.  Has anyone done this before?  If
> so, what tool(s) did you use?  I prefer a tool that I can run on my Ubuntu
> workstation but will consider practically anything.  Since this need will
> expire once the migration is complete I'm not really looking for any
> commercial software (although I will pay for brief usage if the service is
> compelling).  Any advice would be most helpful and appreciated.
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