Help with sending emails to multiple users.

Question

Currently we have a process to send mail to muliple users by looping through the list of users and sending each individual an email
<Action id='1' name='sendEmail' application='com.waveset.provision.WorkflowServices'>
<Argument name='op' value='notify'/>
<Argument name='template' value='$(template)'/>
<Argument name='toUser' value='$(tuser)'/>
<Argument name='catch' value='notificationException'/>
</Action>
The variable tuser contains a single email address.
Is there any way to setup tuser to contain multiple email addresses?
I have tried passing a list and a string separated by colons (ex: <s>[email protected]; [email protected]</s>) and neither one works.
Question 2
Is it a bad idea to try and send email to up to 50000 users at once using IDM? Besides the fact that I would need to search for specific users and get their email addresses based on their capabilities.

Answer 1

Hi,
For sending emails to multiple users, use to instead of toUser. Put the names in comma seperated values
<Action id='0' application='com.waveset.provision.WorkflowServices'>
<Argument name='op' value='notify'/>
<Argument name='template' value='$(template)'/>
<Argument name='to' value='$(to)'/>
<Argument name='cc' value='$(cc)'/>
<Argument name='catch' value='notificationException'/>
</Action>
You can use IDM to send emails.
it will be a good idea to break down the email that you are sending into groups/batches. If possible, you can send email to DL s
Else, you can segregate the users based on roles and send emails. This will reduce the load. Hope it helps
Regards
Arjun
Edited by: arjun.sengupta on Dec 4, 2012 3:26 AM