What does "Require course email auth" do?

Development Architecture
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I followed the instructions from

https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-release-notes/en/latest/bulk_email.html

It wasn’t clear to me what the “Require course email auth” option does based on that documentation. So I selected it. Subsequently I didn’t see any option for emailing students from the Instructor live view. So since I couldn’t then just click into the configuration and disable it, I had to hit “add bulk email flag” again and disable it this time. And then the option actually showed up.

So the question is, what does “Require course email auth” actually do, and how is it meant to be used?

(Note to future people: I recently learned that studio.my.lms.com/admin django doesn’t show you the same stuff as my.lms.com/admin, so you need to go to the my.lms.com/admin version for the “BULK_EMAIL” option to even be visible))

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Hi,

If you use that flag, it means that you have to give permission to course by course to be able to send bulk mail. This is done through /admin/bulk_email /courseauthorization /

Add the course and you will see the instructor tab.