How can I email all registered users?

Question

A lot of similar questions show up in Google, but I can't find a solution for Drupal 7.

Answer 1

I often use Views Bulk Operations for this, and send a tokenized email. I have it create jobs rather than sending everything all at once. But every year I sent an email to 18000 members.

Update: Sadly, token replacement (a key feature to do this successfully, unless you're sending the same message to everybody) seems to be broken right now in both 6.x-1.x and 7.x-3.x of VBO. See http://drupal.org/node/1348552)

The basic strategy:

• Create a view of users
• In D6, you make it a VBO view by changing the style; in D7 you do it by adding a "bulk operations" field.
• When configuring the style or the field, tell it you want to send an email (or tokenized email in D6; make sure you have token_actions enabled).
• Send the email. Use tokens in your email like
  • D6: [mail] and [user] - there are prompts to show you how
  • D7: [user:mail] and [user:name]. It's hard to figure out the right tokens for D7, but if you install and enable the Token module and then visit the admin->configure->system->actions and create an email action, you'll be prompted with the available options.

Things you'll want to do for testing:

• Make sure you test locally so you don't make big mistakes
• Use the Reroute Email module or another technique to make sure that email does not escape.
• Create dummy users with Devel Generate module (part of Devel module)

Answer 2

You could use the Mass Contact module.

The Mass Contact module allows anyone with permission to send a single message to multiple users of a site, using its roles functionality.