mass mailing to all users?

[Pierre Mailhot]

Is there an easy way (and by that I mean no script development whatsoever) to send a mass mailing or bulk email to all users registered on an Open edX platform?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Thanks.

Regards,

Pierre

[Chris Dodge]

Hello Pierre,

Internally at edx.org we use a 3rd party bulk mailing service provider just because of the scale of edx.org (we just hit 5 million registered users).

I'm not aware of an internal tools in Open edX to do this. If you are interested in taking this on, I'd suggest you make this a Django management command in the LMS. It probably wouldn't be too hard (maybe 1 week's worth of work). I'd suggest making the an email template (the out frame of the email) via the Django Admin website and then - on a per email blast - inject in the body content.

You'd probably want a optional parameter on your management command to be able to send a single test email to one email address.

Best,

Chris

[Feanil Patel]

There is a management command that will let you sync all students to a mailchimp list.

https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/lms/djangoapps/mailing/management/commands/mailchimp_sync_announcements.py

-Feanil

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[Pierre Mailhot]

Hello Chris,

You obviously have a few more millions registered users than we do :-)

Thanks for the suggestion. I might get some inspiration from the bulk email tool if we decide to tackle this on and make a django apps.

[Pierre Mailhot]

Thanks Feanil.

I will  look at it.

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[Sarina Canelake]

I think Stanford using the existing bulk email tool to email all their users, but I don't know the specifics. Might be worth poking around a bit more in the codebase, or even looking at their fork to see if you can uncover anything.

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[Pierre Mailhot]

Will do. Thanks Sarina.

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