[TriLUG] Mass mailing ideas

[Justis Peters]

To do that securely, you would need to send a unique link to each user 
with a one-time hash that authenticates them as already having access to 
the existing email account.

Or, you could send them a newly generated password and insist that they 
change it on first login. As far as security goes, they're just about 
equivalent.

Kind regards,
Justis
On 01/18/2011 04:56 PM, Ron Kelley 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...
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> -Ron
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> 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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