Mike Walsh

I don’t have a good way to test this right now as my own hosting provider doesn’t offer PHP7 yet. I’ve put off finding a new hosting provider but it looks like this is something I will need to do soon.

It should work. You’ll have to try it but I can’t think of any reason why it wouldn’t work. It supported 4.7 when it was the current version of WordPress and really hasn’t changed much.

No, this is not possible. On the Email Users Settings Page (Dashboard > Settings > Email Users) there is a list of template keywords you can add to an email to include content from WordPress. The user’s name is not one of those because by design.

Email Users sends as few messages as possible by placing multiple addresses in the BCC field. Each user isn’t getting a separate email (unless you set the BCC limit to 1), they are getting a copy of an email sent to hundreds or even thousands of other users. So there isn’t a mechanism to set a unique salutation – it would require sending one unique email to each user.

It will probably work, the plugin has largely been stable for many years and does not rely on any new WordPress features or APIs.

When an email has been successfully sent, you should see a message at the top of the Dashboard page which contains text like this:

Email sent to N user(s).

The N will be replaced with some number based on the number of users the email was sent to. If you’re not seeing this or something like it, there are several variations, then your email likely isn’t being sent or isn’t completing correctly. Take a look at the Test Email process on the Settings page (Dashboard > Settings Email Users).

Thanks!

In theory, anything is possible. How much effort to achieve it is the unknown.

I do think it would be possible but it would likely take some work to develop a filter or action to achieve what you want to do, at least what I think you want to do.

When the address list is being constructed, you would need an action to query each user for a secondary address and if found, add it to the list. Does it go in place of or in additional to the first email address found? I think you could do this as part of a mailusers_before_wp_mail action.

@peteincali2103 I am not sure how to email you, as far as I can tell WordPress will not show me your email address as part of your profile. Feel free to drop me an email at mpwalsh8 at gmail dot com and we can get an offline dialog going.

No, there is no support for showing anything related to Email Users on the front end. I am not sure how that would be implemented without replicating a lot of functionality which comes for free on the Dashboard.

As evidence by my lack of response to these questions, I have not really had any time to look into these problem reports. A lot of things have changed for me which really limits how much (little? none?) time I can devote to this plugin (and others too).

I used WordPress extensively for a number of projects I volunteered on (school, sports, etc.) but with my kids all out of High School, I am not doing that any longer. All of those projects have been handed over to the next group of parent volunteers, some stuck with WordPress, some went other directions. My regular day job, the one which pays the bills, has also changed dramatically in the past couple years as well. I am busier and traveling much more and I don’t expect that to change any time soon.

If someone is interested in taking over development and maintenance of Email Users, let me know and we can figure something out. I am not the original author, I picked up responsibility in much the same way from the original author who found themselves in a similar situation I find myself in now.

Email Users defines capabilities which allow users to be assigned the ability to send email when they would not otherwise be allowed to. Email Users does not actually provide an interface to assign the capabilities to a user but will recognize them when assigned using another plugin. The capabilities Email Users defines and supports are listed toward the bottom of the Settings page (Dashboard > Settings > Email Users).

There shouldn’t be any issue but there is always the possibility that your content gets marked as spam. There are several SMTP solutions available for WordPress which can reduce the chance or eliminate it. Email Users will work with any SMTP plugin which properly hooks into wp_mail(), the WordPress API for sending email.

This ins’t something Email Users has control over. In most hosting environments, email headers sent through the web infrastructure don’t have any resemblance to the originating domain (your web site) which is why email typically get classified as spam. There is also the possibility that another organization which uses the same infrastructure you’re using has been sending spam so everything coming from the hosting provider’s domains is now marked as spam.

The best way to ensure your email from WordPress isn’t marked as spam is to use some sort of SMTP plugin to send email (there are several available). Doing this will ensure your email is routed through the same process as if you were sending email from your mail client.

My guess would be your hosting infrastructure has a limit on how many email addresses can appear in the BCC field. That is the cause 99% of the time with the situation you describe.

Email Users tries to send as few emails as possible so it will put all of the recipients in the BCC field unless the BCC limit is set. When the BCC limit is set, it will send a series of emails based on the limit and number of users. So if the BCC limit is set to 10 and you have 90 users, Email Users would break your message up into nine (9) separate messages each sent to 10 users.

BCC limits are fairly common for anti-spam purposes.

The first possible solution is to verify Email Users is set to use HTML formatted email. It is the default setting and unless you turned it off for some reason, your email should be HTML formatted.

If the email should resemble the same post on your site and it doesn’t, it is possible it is referencing CSS which isn’t resolving when the email is loaded. This can sometimes be fixed by using full URLs to reference CSS. A mail client wouldn’t know where to find CSS rules if the CSS is a relative URL for your web site.

The only other possibility is you have a mail client which is stripping off some of the HTML. This is unlikely but is possible.