Bulk notification before mailbox migration

Hello,
I will start mailbox migration from Exchange 2010 to 2013 per databases. Can you please let me know how I can send out a bulk email notifications to the users in the mailbox database before the migration?
Thanks

$Boxes = Get-Mailbox -Database DB01
Foreach ($Box in $Boxes){Send-MailMessage -Subject "Migration" -Body "your being moved tonight"
-From "[email protected]" -To $Box.PrimarySmtpAddress -SmtpServer "smtp.domain.com"}
That should do it.
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