[Systems] e-mail blast query

[Sean DALY]

Hi Bernie, please don't get excited, I don't want an argument. The issue is
not receiving an e-mail, it's mass mailing and I'm not able to do that
anymore, that's all.

Sean


On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> On 04/29/2016 07:05 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > historically I used the Google docs instance to send e-mails from
> > pr at sugarlabs.org <mailto:pr at sugarlabs.org>, but it was decided to end
> > support for that so I don't have a suggestion, sorry.
>
> Oh christ, you still blame this on us?
>
> pr at sugarlabs.org is and always has been forwarded to you at
> sdaly.sugarlabs at gmail.com, which presumably you control. So what's the
> issue?
>
>
> > Sean
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
> > <mailto:cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >      Hi Sean and systems folks,
> >
> >     I've recovered the 2800-odd user e-mails from the old Pootle instance
> >     (the user table was not migrated) and I want to send out an e-mail
> >     blast inviting them to re-register and begin translating for SL
> again.
> >     Currently the list in in spreadsheet format, but I can obviously
> >     reconfigure as needed,  I've got fields like their previous
> user-name,
> >     firtstname, lastname, e-mail address that I would like to use to
> >     customize the messages.
> >
> >     I do NOT want to just recreate the user accounts on Pootle, at this
> >     point, I'd prefer an affirmative action on their part to rejoin our
> >     L10n community.  I don't really want to drop them into the L10n
> >     mailman list and make them unsubscribe, that just seems obnoxious.
> >
> >     I don't want to get labeled as a spammer, but I'd like to send as
> >     cjl at sugarlabs.org <mailto:cjl at sugarlabs.org> (if feasible).
> >
> >     I'm looking for suggestions on tools/services to do the mail-merge
> and
> >     blast.  I see this as more-or-less a one-time effort to invite them
> to
> >     come home to our L10n community.
> >
> >     TIA,
> >
> >     cjl
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
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> Bernie Innocenti
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