Can a Confluence administrator generate an email distrubution list based on registered users?

Question

There are some rare occasions when I, as the administrator, would like to email all of my registered users - for instance, about the status of a bug fix that I have been working with Atlassian support on. Can a Confluence administrator generate an email distrubution list based on registered users? I have poked around, but cannot find an obvious solution.

Susan Parker · Answer

Ha ha - those were my sentiments, though I tried to express them a little more delicately.

Robert Lauriston · Answer

"The reason for this is because Confluence is already meant as a collaboration tool to 'replace' emails."

Typical clueless and arrogant Atlassian rationalization of a usability problem.

I need to bring the server down to upgrade to close your security hole.

My Confluence server sends tons of "watch" email notifications. It's an essential part of any wiki. Letting me as admin send announcements to all would increase the volume of email my server sends by approximately 0.01%.

Sune Mølgaard · Answer

I guess you could always try the following query in the database, and use that list to send mails from another program (do remember to mask recipient addresses, perhaps by using BCC: instad of TO: fields):

SELECT email_address from cwd_user;

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