[TriLUG] Mass mailing ideas

[Ron Kelley]

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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