MOSS 2007 Permission error iterating users in group

Question

The following code, though run with elevated privildges, redirects to an access denied error page saying "You are currently signed in as: (my non-admin account)." What am I doing wrong?

    SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
    {

        SPGroup group = SPContext.Current.Web.Groups["Group Name"];

        foreach (SPUser user in group.Users)
        {
           string email = CustomMethodGetsEmailFromProfile(user);
           SPUtility.SendEmail(...);
        }

     });

If I comment out the foreach loop, it works fine but defeats the purpose. Recall, I'm getting access denied. There's a few null checks that I didn't include as I'm writing this from memory. Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

You can't/shouldn't use SPContext when elevating privileges, as the objects represented within it were created under a different (...in this case probably one with less privileges) security context. Try something like this:

        SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
        {
            using (SPSite site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Site.ID))
            {
                using (SPWeb web = site.AllWebs[SPContext.Current.Web.ID])
                {
                     // then your code
                }
            }
        });

Should do the trick.