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The emailusers Module

The module we will create will provide an administration interface. It will make it easy for administrators to send a user an email message directly from the user's profile. This sort of module might be helpful in cases where administrators occasionally need to communicate with specific users through Drupal.

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There are already a host of mail-related modules available for Drupal. In fact, the Contact module bundled with Drupal provides similar functionality for user-to-user communication. (Ours is focused on administrator-to-user email). You can also browse the contributed modules by going to the Drupal module site and clicking on the Mail category: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/66

Given its function, we will name this module emailusers. We want this module to support the following features:

An administrator will be able to send messages through a form-based interface.
The form should be linked to the user's profile.
Users who are not "user administrators...

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