[TriLUG] Mass mailing ideas

Douglas Ward dward at nc.rr.com
Tue Jan 18 17:01:49 EST 2011


They are not receiving new e-mail addresses.  They are having their existing
accounts migrated from one server technology to another internally.  The new
system has a way to tell us who has not logged into their new accounts and
will force a password change on the first login.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> 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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