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Does anyone know what the user email variable is in FrontEndUsers?  I can't seem to find it and the "$email" or $useremail" don't seem to work.  I'm trying to create a User Defined Tag that mails to the user.

I just tried using this as an User Defined Tag and it didn't work.  I'm just trying to send an email to the user when their group has been changed so i want this UDT to work on the Frontend User Management Event "OnUpdateUser".  Here's the UTD i made.  Can someone tell me what's wrong with it?  I replaced the "$email_addr" with my personal email and it works, so I just need to have the user's email there.

mail('$email_addr','Application Approved','Your Application has been approved.');

That depends if you have set "Email address is username"

You might try {get_template_vars} ?

Email address is not set as username.

I tried {get_template_vars} but it simply tells me what the vars are set as "email = none@nothing.com".  It doesn't actually give the variable.  I also made the email address the username and tried mailing to $username without success.  Could it be that the variables aren't passed along when the UDT is used?

what is the name of the email address property you created?

I'm trying to use the Frontend User's email property.

yes, but what is the NAME of the property you created?  did you call it "email" or "email_address" or "emailaddress" or what?

I'm not sure i understand.  I placed "mail('$email_addr','Application Approved','Your Application has been approved.');" in a UDT and attached that UDT to an event.  If I replace the "$email_addr" with a real email, it works.  I found that $email gives me the user email, so that's solved, but it still doesn't work.  i assume the Frontend User mod isn't passing the variable to the UDT.  Any thoughts on this?  I might create a new thread since it's a different question.

ok, so you know that "$email" gives you the email address of the user, but you're correct that FEU doesn't make this a global variable.  You need to retrieve it first from the FEU module; I don't recall the exact syntax, but I think you can find it in the documentation or here in the forum.