Joomla! Documentation™

Description

The Mass Mail screen allows Users who are members of the "Super Administrator" group to send an email message to registered users for the site. Users can be selected based on groups.

How to Access

• Select Users → Mass Mail Users from the dropdown menu of the Administrator Panel.

Screenshot

Form Fields

• Subject. Enter the Subject of the Email. Try to make it as descriptive as possible.
  Note: Any text entered in the 'Subject Prefix' parameter in Options will be placed in front of the subject you enter here.
• Message. Enter the body of the Email.
  Note: Any text entered in the 'Mailbody Suffix' parameter in Options will be added to the text you enter here.
• Mail to Child User Groups. Whether or not to send the Email to members of all child groups of the selected group. For example, if this box is checked and the "Public" group is selected, the email would be sent to all users, since all groups are child groups of "Public".
• Send in HTML Mode. Whether or not to send the Email with headers that identify it as an HTML document. Email clients that support this will render any HTML codes.
• Send to Disabled Users. If checked, disabled users will be included when sending mail.
• Recipients as BCC. If checked, all recipients will be included as BCC entries, so none will see any of the other recipients' Email addresses. Because many mail routers treat Email without a To: entry as spam, the site email will be used for the To: entry.
• Group. Select the groups you want to send the Email to.

Toolbar

At the top left you will see the toolbar.

The functions are:

• Send email. Send the email and return to the main Mass Mail screen.

• Cancel. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.

• Help. Opens this help screen.

• Options. Opens the Options window where settings such as default parameters can be edited.

Quick Tips

Mass Mail is active by default. To disable Mass Mail:

• Select System → Global Configuration from the dropdown menu of the Administrator Panel
• Click the Server tab
• Within the Mail Settings set Disable Mass Mail to Yes.

To just send a private message to a user, see more on how to write a Private Message to a user.

Related Information

Administrative User Tasks

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Front End User Interaction

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