it's the first time i wont advise advise someone to perform a search : P i remember myself asking Afwas about this one on [url=irc://irc.freenode.net/#b2evolution]Irc[/url], he has mentioned there was a similar post back than, i just had the time to make a quick search however i found nothing but related topics redirecting into each other.. maybe someone would provide the exact link to the solution that i couldnt find and cannot point to atm..But fyr.; it's doable ofc.. good luck in advance

tilqicom,

thanks for the vote of confidence. I searched but kept hitting dead ends and 'blog by email' stuff.

Hopefully, someone has an idea on this, or an old archived post.

cheers

Do you really use 1.10.x version or it's a forum bug again?

I made a hack for 2.x
Save the code as conf/hacks.php

<?php

$sender_name = 'Admin';
$sender_address = 'admin@blog.com';
$subject = 'Message subject';
$message = 'Message body';


if( !empty( $_GET['send_messages'] ) )
{
	global $Messages;
	
	$UserCache = & get_Cache( 'UserCache' );
	
	for( $recipient_User = & $UserCache->get_first(); !is_null($recipient_User); $recipient_User = & $UserCache->get_next() )
	{
		$recipient_name = quoted_printable_encode( trim($recipient_User->get('preferredname')) );
		$recipient_address =  $recipient_name.' <'.$recipient_User->get('email').'>';
		
		if( $recipient_User->group_ID != 1 )
		{
			if( send_mail( $recipient_address, $subject, $message, "$sender_name <$sender_address>" ) )
				$Messages->add( sprintf( T_('Your message has been sent to "%s"'), $recipient_User->get('preferredname') ), 'success' );
		}
	}
}


// Quoted printable encode
function quoted_printable_encode( $string, $charset = 'utf-8' )
{
  $string = rawurlencode($string);
  $string = str_replace("%","=",$string);
  return "=?".$charset."?Q?".$string."?=";
}

?>

Type the following in address bar to run the script

YOUR_BLOG/index.php?send_messages=1

If you want to try the script first use
if( $recipient_User->ID == 1 )

I'll probably make a plugin from this hack with HTML and attachments support.

sam2kb,

is the userid = 1 what distinguishes admin, bloggers, standard login, etc?

i am currently upgrading to the latest version (2.4.2 i believe), and can run your hack once I am done.

I would really like to push an email to varying levels and customize the email accordingly.

thanks again.

sam2kb wrote:

Do you really use 1.10.x version or it's a forum bug again?

I was also gonna mention that but i presumed the bug took action already..When talking of that tiny bug; is it really that hard to fix that bug ? or at least disable that dropdown box; so that the user will have to type his version instead of choosing a misleading one ?

This script was tested for 2 minutes or so that's why I think you should send a test message to admin first

if( $recipient_User->ID == 1 )

Then you can use any combination

Send to all users except Administrators

if( $recipient_User->group_ID != 1 )

Send to users #4 and #9

if( $recipient_User->ID == 4 || $recipient_User->ID == 9 )

Mail Sender plugin http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=16454