Sending PMs to all members at the same time

[iamawakenow]

Thanks in advance to anyone who can assist me with this.

I want to send a general "Welcome" PM (private message) to each of my forum members, but since there are so many of them, it would take me too long to send each one a PM one at a time. I'm using the 'Midnight Blue' theme in my forum. 

Is there any way I can copy and paste the names of all of my forum members in the "send to" text field, type out my "Welcome" message and then send it to ALL of them en masse, without having to befriend all of them or assigning all of them to a group?

[Nscalerr 🐺]

Hi iamawakenow

The easiest way to send emails to all members is to go to Admin Home > Members > Email Members and you can then send to Specific Members, Specific Groups, Staff or Everyone.

[iamawakenow]

Thanks so much for responding so quickly to my query! 


These are the warning dialogues that popped up when I arrived in the Email section:

Due to an extremely high volume of emails being sent, mass emails may take up to several days to be sent to users.

Mass emails may not be sent from a Yahoo address at this time. Please change your email address to a different provider before trying to send.

Is using the Email method the only way I can send multiple PMs to forum members at the same time? I'd rather not use my gmail or yahoo email just to send a simple "Welcome" message to my new members.

Is there not any other way for me to do this? Would perhaps installing another theme provide a way for me to send a simple message to multiple forum members at once?

Thanks so much for helping me with this! I really do appreciate it! 

[Kami]

If you go to make a PM, on the right hand side of the “to” field there’s an option icon. you can change it to a mass PM there (send to all).

[iamawakenow]

Feb 18, 2019 0:32:55 GMT -8 Kami said:

If you go to make a PM, on the right hand side of the “to” field there’s an option icon. you can change it to a mass PM there (send to all).

Thanks for your suggestion, Kami.

However, there is no such option for me with this particular theme. All it has is what you see in this image.

On the right, where it says "Send to Individuals" and "Send to Groups" is useless for what I need to do. No matter which option I choose, it still won't allow me to send the mass "Welcome" message to ALL of my forum members. 

And when I tried to copy and paste a few forum members' names in the "Enter a username" field (separated by a comma), it wouldn't allow me to enter all of them or even most of them.

Where it says "Recipients" on the left is misleading; it suggests that I can enter multiple recipients:
 

[elhombre]

If you click on "members" in the navigation bar,and select "all" as an action, you can send a private message that way.


Not sure if that is what you are trying to achieve. 

[moonbeam]

In your screenshot it shows the option for Send to all?

Going forward, you can also have one sent automatically by going to Admin > Settings > Forum Settings > Login and Registration tab. There is an option there at the bottom to send a welcome PM

[iamawakenow]

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions on helping me out with this!

However, after tinkering with it for a half an hour or so, I finally figured out how to do it.

I had to manually copy and paste each forum member's name inside the "Enter a username" field.



When I did that, it did a mini search for each one and found the forum member I typed in there.



I clicked on it and then it placed each forum member in rows of five, until I finished entering each of them in the "Enter a username" field.



After that, I clicked on "Create Message" and then it sent my "Welcome" message to all of them at the same time.





I hope this thread will be of help to someone else who runs into this same situation!

[iamawakenow]

Feb 18, 2019 9:17:53 GMT -8 elhombre said:

If you click on "members" in the navigation bar,and select "all" as an action, you can send a private message that way.


Not sure if that is what you are trying to achieve. 

Oh wow, this is an even easier way to send my "Welcome" message to multiple forum members!  Wish I would've read your post before I did what I did lol

[iamawakenow]

Feb 18, 2019 9:23:48 GMT -8 moonbeam said:

In your screenshot it shows the option for Send to all?

Going forward, you can also have one sent automatically by going to Admin > Settings > Forum Settings > Login and Registration tab. There is an option there at the bottom to send a welcome PM

 
Yes, I noticed that too! But unfortunately, the "Welcome Message" box doesn't have options to format text in any way or to add emojis to my message. 

Thanks so much for responding to my query, Moonbeam!


Gosh, all of you in the Support Dept. are freakin' AWESOME! 

[moonbeam]

So using this did not work?

[iamawakenow]

Feb 18, 2019 10:00:55 GMT -8 moonbeam said:

So using this did not work?

Yes, it would have worked, except I had already sent my "Welcome" message to the first new batch of forum members one at a time, before this new batch of members joined in a relatively short period of time.

That's why I had to hand-select each of the most newest members. Had I selected "All", the first new batch of forum members would've received a(nother) redundant "Welcome" message.

[moonbeam]

Oh ok. Did you see how you can do it automatically going forward?