That may be true @Gerald but have you ever tried mass messaging users when you don't have mass messaging rights? Its a nightmare, this is useful in various ways and could be used right and wrong no doubt.

One of the highlights of this tool is its benefit to developers, the ability to send emails even from your local wiki is amazing!

Cheers,

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Isaac Kamga <u2isaac@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Congratulations for the great work Derick.

Can I just say you're a real example of a Community developer.

Keep it up. Africa needs more of your breed.

At Your Service,
Isaac Kamga.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 2:17 PM Gerald kUMAH <geraldkumahkg@gmail.com> wrote:

Nice, but I believe the 10 emails feature we have now was made standard to reduce spamming especially with "yahoo boyz" sending plenty emails to catch "fish"

On Aug 24, 2017 1:04 PM, "Felix Nartey" <flixtey@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> This is brilliant Derick! While the current email feature only allows up to 10 emails to be sent on a wiki this option allows 12,000 emails and even allows you to messages on your local wiki.
>
> This is truly great and we have to celebrate your hard work. Folks there are more relevant stuff to be done in the community. Find your niche and hit it hard to make an impact.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Hope we all are doing great? I wish to announce the beta release of version 1.0 of the SendGrid MediaWiki extension[1] which enables MediaWiki to send emails using the SendGrid API. I have been working on this extension for some time now and finished up the first version last night :).
>>
>> It's very simple to use and all you need is a valid SendGrid API key (config in your LocalSettings.php file "wgSendGridAPIKey") and you are done. In addition, this can be used also by user doing development locally and wish to send emails from their local wiki. SendGrid offers 12,000 emails to its users for an unlimited time and this can come in handy when you are not in deployment / production environment.
>>
>> I wish members of the development community to try this extension out and see how it works and give in their feedback. A work board for this project / extension has been has been requested [2] and will be up soon, but the extension is okay for use :). 
>>
>> Extensions that perform a similar role are; Mailgun[3] & SwiftMailer[4]. We need more of this mailer extensions to have various varieties. :)
>>
>> Thank you and hoping to get some feedback.
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SendGrid
>> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173922
>> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mailgun
>> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SwiftMailer
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>> Kind regards
>> Alangi Derick N
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