[Forum] How recover the users email fast

[Sworm1]

Hi all, there is a more fast way to recover all the registered users email from my old closed forum?

I have need to recover over 5000 users email to send them a invite to join on the newest forum , and this operation should be really slow if doned manually, so there's some tool that can help me?


PS
I can not send email from the closed old forum because the dns are changed like the domain name and the server. The new forum is not yet completed and my host will close the old space before the new one is completed so i have need to save in a txt all the registered users email. From the DB can i save all the emails? If yes, how?

thanks

[Mark.B]

There's no feature in the default forum to do this, however you could install the old forum onto a password-protected folder on your new server, and send the emails from there.

You'll need to update the URLs to make it work so make sure any reference to the board URL in the email is done manually, not using any URL variables.

[Sworm1]

Thanks Mark, and from the database? can i download the user references from there? mmmhhh i don't know, some table to download with all the users datas.... is it not possible to do this?

[Mark.B]

Thanks Mark, and from the database? can i download the user references from there? mmmhhh i don't know, some table to download with all the users datas.... is it not possible to do this?

You could but the addresses will be intermingled with other data in the same table so you'd need to write something to extract that out.
Faster to just install the old forum on the new server temporarily to fire out the emails. As long as you're not running both at once on a single license you're fine.
To be strictly within the terms of your license make sure the "new" forum is private, send the emails from the old forum, then make the old forum private again before opening the new one.
You should technically update the URLs in the members area as you go as well.