sendBulkEmails.php should have an option to ignore user preferences
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	Tgr
	Mar 28 2025, 8:09 PM

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sendBulkEmails.php skips sending to users who have disabled the "Allow other users to email me" preference. This makes sense for some types of emails, but other times it doesn't. It should be optional.

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Mentioned In: T389064: Notify WebAuthn users about SUL3 changes
Mentioned Here: T389064: Notify WebAuthn users about SUL3 changes

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Tgr created this task.Mar 28 2025, 8:09 PM

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Tgr mentioned this in T389064: Notify WebAuthn users about SUL3 changes.Mar 30 2025, 7:11 PM

In T389064#10676087, @Tgr wrote:
Annoyingly, sendBulkEmails.php does not emails users who have unset the allowemail user preference ("Allow other users to email me") which is not really relevant for this kind of email. So I'll use a copy of it with a trivial change:
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< require_once __DIR__ . '/WikimediaMaintenance.php';
---
> $IP = getenv( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' );
> if ( $IP === false ) {
> 	$IP = __DIR__ . '/../../..';
> }
> 
> require_once "$IP/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/WikimediaMaintenance.php";
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< 		if ( !$user->canReceiveEmail() ) {
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> 		if ( !$user->isEmailConfirmed() ) {

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