Send a confirmation of user role upgrade conditionally

Quite possibly something like this might work;

    function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
    $site_url = get_bloginfo('wpurl');
    $user_info = get_userdata( $user_id );

    if (user_can( $user_id, 'capability' ) ) {

        $to = $user_info->user_email;
        $subject = "Role changed: ".$site_url."";
        $message = "Hello " .$user_info->display_name . " your role has changed on     ".$site_url.", congratulations you are now an " . $new_role;
        wp_mail($to, $subject, $message);

    } elseif (user_can( $user_id, 'capability' ) ) {

    // etc...

    }

}
add_action( 'set_user_role', 'user_role_update', 10, 2);

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