Send bulk email to all regsitered users

[Oleksii Molchanovskyi]

Dear all!

We use OpenEdX production stack. And now we have an issue: we need to send bulk email to all users that are registered in our system (instead of sending emails for users within a specific course). Is there any existed OpenEdX build-in operation for such task? Or maybe there is some additional utility for this purpose. 

Also I found this Django app - https://github.com/emencia/emencia-django-newsletter which allows to send massive emails. So maybe is it possible to integrate it into the whole system? Can you please help me how to integrate third-party apps into the OpenEdX if this is possible at all?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Oleksii.

[Chris Dodge]

Just as a little bit of information, at edX.org we use MailChimp as our "email-everyone" use-cases and synchronize our user databases on a daily basis (as well as synchronizing any "please unsubscribe" requests). MailChimp is a pretty common 3rd party email provider, so you might want to look into using that service or something comparable.

If I were to look into a closer integration into the platform, I would probably look to extend/replicate what is done with the course bulk-email areas of the code. I believe Aspen contains the feature modification to allow multiple "Bulk Email Templates" (the original implementation just supported one singleton email template). However, there is a documented bug using multiple templates - there's been a fix committed but I do not believe it has been integrated into a point release on Aspen.

[Pierre Mailhot]

Hi Chris,

Is there any documentation on how to use eucalyptus.2 and MailChimp?

I was already looking into it and trying to figure out how to interconnect everything when I discovered the mailing djangoapps and references to mailchimp. And then I discovered this mailing list thread.

We are already using bulk email for our courses, but we definitely need an "email-everyone" solution for a newsletter like the one edX sends every week.

If there is already a working solution, why reinvent the wheel? :)

So, once again, is there any documentation on how to use eucalyptus.2 and MailChimp? Environment variables to setup, anything I could look at.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Pierre