Feature? Letting Members mass-email specific Groups

[FannonF]

Hello there!

I'm new to SMF and have not much idea what this Forum might do and what not.
I've got SMF 2.0RC3 installed.

I think about making a Forum which should have a Feature that Members of a specific Group have a simple Ability to send a mail to a specific Usergroup.

You get the idea? Example: There is a Member and it is Part of the Group "Staff". He should be able to send an email (with Attachment?) to all other Staff Members, or Moderators, or Admins etc.
This could maybe also solved with automatic Notification of a specific Board, but not as complete as this suggestion.

Is this possible with SMF?

Many thanks for this wonderful Forum Software!

Greets,
Simon

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Basically, in a default installation you can give any membergroup the option to send out Newsletters (not containing attachments though) through the Admin panel, but that would allow this group to send them out to all or any of the existing membergroups on your forum.

Perhaps this could be done as a mod though.

[Oya]

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2178 ?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

That's almost - but not quite, it won't do e-mail nor attachments.

[FannonF]

That's almost - but not quite, it won't do e-mail nor attachments.

Yes this looks VERY good exept email-Attachments!

Thanks for the suggestions!

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

You could set it so that everyone receives notifications of PMs by default, and then have it include the post text - and that way it would also be sent to the receivers in an email. Still no attachments though.

[Oya]

why do you need to use attachments? besides if i found my email was being hit with attachments (i have an email quota) i'd get very annoyed - why not, instead, store the attachment on the forum, maybe in aeva media or similar, and just link to it?

better for my email, better for everyone's bandwidth

[FannonF]

why do you need to use attachments? besides if i found my email was being hit with attachments (i have an email quota) i'd get very annoyed - why not, instead, store the attachment on the forum, maybe in aeva media or similar, and just link to it?

better for my email, better for everyone's bandwidth

This would be a good solution - then we would need a mod that auto-subscribes a special Forum (which have the proper permissions) to all members of it. Does something like that exist?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

None that I can think of right now, but still you might want to try searching the cust.site