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Mastodon admins!
If you have extremely urgent info (e.g. data breach warnings, server closure announcements) you can email it directly to your users:
1. Go to Preferences > Administration > Announcements
2. If you haven't already, create & publish urgent announcement
3. After announcement has been published, go back to Preferences > Administration > Announcements and click "✉️ Notify Users" below urgent announcement
4. Check email is correct, then click "Send X emails"
@homegrown also be careful .. this is going to notify all instance users.
So.. make sure your SMTP / email plan can submit that many messages. (some/most will queue things up and trickle them out as allowed if hitting any limits..)
Or not. There is no guaranteed delivery via email.
The announcement is also visible to everyone logged into the server's website and some mobile apps, it appears as a banner at the top of the screen.
Exactly. So why waste bandwidth and leak information thru untrustable email servers?
This is a bad feature, best left unused.
Because the announcement isn't visible on all apps, and some people don't notice announcements on websites any more due to irritating banners and fake announcements on commercial websites.
p.s. DO NOT use the email notify feature for routine announcements. Emailing all your users directly is only suitable for emergencies.
Non-emergency use of mass emailing may be regarded as spamming, and could destroy your ability to reach people when an emergency happens.
If you have a routine announcement, publish the announcement but do not click on "notify users".
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