Last year I lost my domain and it took me "while" to get a new domain and transfer everything to a new host. Now I would like to let registered users to know that forum is back and running again. I never posted mass email, so I'm not sure if I should post it to all members at once or post it in waves? I think I can divide members of my board into a few groups:
1. people who write posts
2. people who visiting board regularly
3. people who are only registered and never visited it
Is there way how to search members of first and second group and put them separately as recipients of mass email?
Or is there any better way to do it?
I think email them all at once. Because it is not obvious, people who have never written can be active again. Even mention your forum in this email: it's about what it is.
If your server or hosting provider has an e-mail limit, you can do this by specifying the daily limit in the e-mail settings. But the "send now" option should be unchecked. If you have an e-mail service, you can send it to all of them, no problem.
If I were you I’d remove all those in item 3 from the board before you start sending mails. If they have bogus addresses, which they probably do, they could upset whatever mail provider you use, and double check your spambot counter measures.
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The bad news is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create." - Harmony Cobel
There are some email providers that just don't accept phpBB registration emails for some reason.
I cannot tell you how many times I registered on a board and never got the activation email. Not even in my spam folder. Thus, I was never able to activate the account.
Sometimes I just didn't see the value of contacting the admin and would just go somewhere else.
I doubt most unactivated accounts are truly from spambots.
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Thank you for the replies.
Is there way to filter out inactive users (those who are registered, but never visited forum) and put them to separate group? I looked into ACP, but I didn't find how to do it.
EDIT: I found extensions Inactive User Manager (reminder) and Userreminder for phpBB - hopefully it would help me to remove some users from mass email
"The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination.
The bad news is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create." - Harmony Cobel