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Journeyman
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I have a large number os users who never posted on the forum, and when I send mass mail asking they why, most (majority) reply asking for his/her username and password because they forgot it.
There is any why I could send mass mail using doemailusers.php and then including the username (and even password) inside the e-mail like :
"dear user [name] ,
Your username is [username]
and your password is : [password]"
??
would be great if we could do it. Inserting variables inside the mass mail.
Is that possible?

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I don't think I would do that- I had a user with the email of [][email protected][/] and he hadnt used that email in about 3 years. One day it happened to sign on in my contact list for Trillian and I met a lovely woman named Pam in Iowa whom the email had been re-assigned to. Pretty weird

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The password is stored in an one way encrypted way in the database, thus you can not send them their password.

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OK. I would not send the password...
but my question still: can I send the username at least?

Can I include any info from the database inside the mass mail program?
That would be great if I can

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well you could rewrite it a bit and send it yes.

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If you wanted to send a password - there is nothing to stop you from sending a temporary one. Would need a big of jigging but it should work.


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Code Monkey
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If they get the email, all they have to do is enter their email into the forgot password field on the login screen, then they get botht a Username and a temporary password sent to their email address.


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