Mass Private Message

[ForumsMods]

Mass Private Message

Description:
Send PM to Users in Mass

Installation:

Upload all files in folder upload to ther respective directories on your webserver.
Go to ACP / Plugins & Products / Manage Products and import product-mass_pm.xmlWhere to set options:
ACP-> Users-> Send PM to Users

Languages:
- English

History:
01-01-11: v4.0 First Release
11-07-12: v4.0.1 Added Delay Option

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[sulasno]

tagged and thanks

is this only for Admin's use ? can it be configure for certain usergroups or users?

[ForumsMods]

tagged and thanks

is this only for Admin's use ? can it be configure for certain usergroups or users?
Only for users that can administer users.

[Boofo]

How is this on server resources?

[ForumsMods]

How is this on server resources?
It uses vB PM Datamanager to send the message.
Also you can specify how many pm to send per page.

[Boofo]

The it should adhere to the vb limits so it shouldn't be too bad. I'll give it a shot, sir.

[Marek58]

Polish version

[Kolbi]

Is there a difference towards this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=141622 ?

[Boofo]

This one works for vb 4 and the other one is for vb 3.

[COL NIL SATIS]

tagged,gonna add this one later

[cicciotto]

does not work on vb 4.0.8 :(
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/03/40.jpg

[ForumsMods]

Is there a difference towards this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=141622 ?
It is for vB3.
Also in my version you can use the following variables:
$userid, $username and $email
does not work on vb 4.0.8 :(
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/03/40.jpg
Did you upload the includes folder to you forum root?

[cicciotto]

Thanks!
can do such a thing?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=72105

insert html in message.

[Kolbi]

HTML insert PN's would be a real big advantage!

Or BBCode Buttons above body message in the admincp.

[ForumsMods]

Thanks!
can do such a thing?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=72105

insert html in message.


HTML insert PN's would be a real big advantage!

Or BBCode Buttons above body message in the admincp.

BBCode editor will be added in next release.
To allow HTML, would need to add a query every time when a user read a pm or with one file (private.php) edit.

[Kolbi]

Well okay :) But the bbcode editor would be very nice.

[OldSchoolDSL]

You currently have this modification tagged.

waiting for the next version

[Dr.osamA]

Excellent =5 stars

installed and translated to Arabic

plzz be nice and add Arabic xml file to 1st original post

[doopz]

Hmm, normal users have a limit of max 5 PM's at the time... admin users don't have this.
yet it's only sending it to 5 people.. any suggestions?

[jgt58]

yes you need to set your throttle limit to 0 for admins and PM's to send at once to 0. You can do this by going to usergroups and edit usergroup. Its a setting per usergroup.

BTW works flawlessly on 4.0.3

[tattooz]

I have this installed on 4.1.0. I see the mod and did a test but I did not get it. Anyone else?

[Mr Morningstarr]

does not work on vb 4.0.8 :(
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/03/40.jpg

Can't get this to work in vb 4.0.3 either. :(

[FReeSTER]

This mod will be good if you can send to some user groups and NOT all

[FReeSTER]

Is there a difference towards this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=141622 ?Yes there is a difference, that the old one works perfect on vb4.0.8pl2 and it have the options to select per usergroup :D:up:

[ForumsMods]

This mod will be good if you can send to some user groups and NOT all
You can select which usergroups to send (primary and secundary).

[tidus78]

Is it possible to insert links?

[Gero50]

Installed and thank you for the great mod.

[Gleedo]

Tag for later installation this evening - thank you.

Yet another person writing a mod that should be part of a vb by default. Good Work.

[Fungsten]

You can select which usergroups to send (primary and secundary).

I have selected those myself and it still isn't working. VB 4.1.1.

[Gleedo]

Works perfectly for me on 4.1.1. Thanks very much :)

[EasyEazy]

is it possible to show this in the Moderator control panel as well?

It only shows in the users section of the admin control panel and i want my moderators to be able to use this option.

Only way around is to grant them admin access to the users section which i dont want to do.

Great mod btw

[steve1966]

thank you

[Mr Morningstarr]

Does it make a difference to this mod if you have changed the name of your admincp?

Obviously I uploaded the files to the right location, but "Send PM to Users" is not appearing in my admincp menu. Do any of the files need to be edited to change the name of admincp?

[Mr Morningstarr]

does not work on vb 4.0.8 :(
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/03/40.jpg

OK, I managed to find out why this mod wasn't showing up in the Users menu for me. Have you ever installed any other mass PM mods?

When I uninstalled this hack, because I couldn't get it to work, I spotted another .xml file in the includes folder. This mod uses a file called cpnav_mass_pm.xml, and I had another file called cpnav_masspm.xml already in the includes folder.

After I deleted both of those files and reinstalled this mod it started working.

Hope this helps.

[PokeCenter]

I use VBulletin 4.1.0 and it didn't work. I put everything in the correct spot in the directory. In the includes I put those 3 things and in the Admin CP I put the 1 thing. I uploaded the file you specified by importing and it's enabled? I have no clue why this isn't working. Please help me it will greatly be appreciated!

Edit: Do I need to add it as a new plugin too? Not as a product but plugin. If so what information and PHP code do I put?

[dany_danay]

Please, an spanish version? With spanish language I install it and dont appear in admincp

[China-Rising]

Installed and working great:)

It would be fantastic if links would show up as clickable ones though.

[The_Rayman]

Nice one!, saves a whole load of typing :)

[MarceloS]

Hello.

Can you add an option like this:

"receive e-mails from admins" yes no

Let me explain: when I send a mass PM I want that all users receive it, except the ones that denied receiving emails from admins.

Thanks. the product is great.

[Fungsten]

Still not working. Only sends to a couple of users when all the appropriate usergroups are checked. VB 4.1.2

[DNN]

It uses vB PM Datamanager to send the message.
Also you can specify how many pm to send per page.

I was about to ask the same ?'n too that Boofo asked, but you hit the mark. Thanks buddy!

[angeljs]

No matter what I do I can't find the link in the admin to send a mass pm :( I've installed, re-installed, followed tips in this thread, but it just won't show up.

Edit: Un-installed, then re-installed again and now it's showing up :)

[DNN]

this mod is butter, SON!

[ndut]

installed, on vb 4.0.1

[Vick98]

Is this mod compatible with the latest vB version 4.1.4?

[ForumsMods]

Is this mod compatible with the latest vB version 4.1.4?
Yes, it works.

[pantani]

Works perfect in vb 4.1.5, thanks

[career]

have done some tests
it's also working perfect with vb 3.8

thanks

[Fergal C]

What folder should I be uploading the pm.php file to? Is it straight to the Admin directory, or somewhere else?

Thanks?

[ForumsMods]

What folder should I be uploading the pm.php file to? Is it straight to the Admin directory, or somewhere else?

Thanks?
You have to upload it to the acp folder. By default it is admincp.

[Fergal C]

Thanks ForumsMods, I've installed it there but the "Send PM" option still isn't showing up in the "Users" menu. I can't find any of the files mentioned by Mr Morningstarr in post #34 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2170048&postcount=34), so unfortunately I don't know what the issue is.

[EasyEazy]

Is it possible to have this in the ModCP as well?

If so how?

[JasonP38]

Installed.


thanks. :)

[maryx]

I installed this mod. When it is enabled, the Users field in the admin cp disappears. When I disable the mod, the Users field comes back. I have 4.1.5

Any help?

[bremereric]

No help from me but it works in 4.1.3 Great mod and I already used it once.

[Boofo]

I installed this mod. When it is enabled, the Users field in the admin cp disappears. When I disable the mod, the Users field comes back. I have 4.1.5

Any help?

Sounds like you have another mod messing with it.

[armthehomeless1]

Mine stops when it gets to the 500 and doesn't continue. Anyone else experiencing that? vb4.1.5 pl1

[bremereric]

Mine stops when it gets to the 500 and doesn't continue. Anyone else experiencing that? vb4.1.5 pl1I set mine up to PM 50 at a time and it works fine.

[armthehomeless1]

I set mine up to PM 50 at a time and it works fine.

Maybe that's why it also crashed my server and maxed out my 3GB RAM.

I was able to send 500 at a time with the old Yet ANother Mass....blah blah.

I'm not sure whether to try again or just go back to the old one.

[bp323]

thanks much!

[ProFifaLeagues]

Anyway to have this shown in the Modcp too??

[225]

Pretty sweet. Thanks!

[bhkien]

It does not work on vBulletin 4.1.7

[licensinglinks]

Links sent aren't clickable. Is there a way of making them clickable????

[ForumsMods]

Links sent aren't clickable. Is there a way of making them clickable????
You must use BBCode.

[licensinglinks]

You must use BBCode.

thanks

[licensinglinks]

Are there any restrictons on which bbcodes can/can't be used? Some messages I send just don't go through (even though it looks like they're being sent)

[licensinglinks]

Also is there a restriction on message length, and how do I increase it?. Longer messages don't seem to get sent for some reason.

[gsmlover4u]

nice hack

[Hippy]

yep great mod .. working with vb4.1.8
thanks for the great mod time and effort that went into it ..

[dune3000]

I got error:
No Users Matched Your Query


How to fix it
Thx

[topladz]

ive got the option in the admin panel but once i press it a page comes up saying webpage cant be found any ideas folks

[Luca_ITA]

work fine on vb4.1.9. TNX

[CountRock]

Is there a way to filter the users as per their "User Profile Fields" such as location?

[mawby]

Installed and working great, thanks.

One feature request, could an optional pause be put in after each batch of PMs are sent? On my site we use this mod to send PMs to thousands of members and this causes high server load and unresponsiveness during the sending process. I hacked the script on my site to pause for 10 seconds after each batch and the server was much happier.

[matt94gt]

I have 4.1.5. and this does not show up in my Admin....anyone???

[matt94gt]

anyone I really need this to work....

thanks

[matt94gt]

go it to work followed this guys suggestion on page #3


OK, I managed to find out why this mod wasn't showing up in the Users menu for me. Have you ever installed any other mass PM mods?

When I uninstalled this hack, because I couldn't get it to work, I spotted another .xml file in the includes folder. This mod uses a file called cpnav_mass_pm.xml, and I had another file called cpnav_masspm.xml already in the includes folder.

After I deleted both of those files and reinstalled this mod it started working.

Hope this helps.

[ForceHSS]

installed very nice program will help alot but you dont need Unregistered / Not Logged In as you cant pm them

[hyperviperx99]

I uploaded the files and imported the XML file but I do not see "Send PM to Users" under "Users"

Did anyone else get this issue? Please let me know how to fix this

[Hippy]

make sure you have the includes/xml/ file in the correct location..

[Alan_SP]

Also is there a restriction on message length, and how do I increase it?. Longer messages don't seem to get sent for some reason.

Yes, you can decide how big are PMs. It's in settings, under PM options.

[RaSa]

Works fine with VB 4.1.10!

[kisanjong]

Working on 4.1.11 Thanks :)

[MacroPhotoPro]

Works perfectly on 4.1.11 :)

[iyama]

Working, only if i select "From" as a other sender it wil shows my admin account name.

[DFish]

Works like a charm! :up:

This is exactly what I've been needing. I've made some updates to the form (upgraded from IP Board to vBulletin 4), changed URL and made some other major changes. But the threads I've created on the subject has fallen through the cracks. This is a way for me to update everyone on the changes I've made and be relatively sure they've seen it.

Thanks.

[porschinho]

Installed and working great, thanks.

One feature request, could an optional pause be put in after each batch of PMs are sent? On my site we use this mod to send PMs to thousands of members and this causes high server load and unresponsiveness during the sending process. I hacked the script on my site to pause for 10 seconds after each batch and the server was much happier.

What about letting us know how you hacked the mod?
I have the same problem. 40.000 users and the server gets problems while sending 500 email notifications per batch. and i do not want to klick hundred times the "next" button.

[kamran_dotnet]

anyone test "Mass Private Message" in Vbulletin 4.2 ?

[Hippy]

anyone test "Mass Private Message" in Vbulletin 4.2 ?
Yep...works fine

[ferryupjess]

There were problems during installation:

1. Upload all files in folder upload to ther respective directories on your webserver. Done.

2. Go to ACP / Plugins & Products / Manage Products and import product-mass_pm.xml. Error. Invalid File Specified

What am I doing wrong? vBulletin 4.1.1

[ForceHSS]

Error is because you have uploaded to wrong folder

[MikeBeams]

I have this Love it works great, but we are trying to have multiple groups use this Permission Without having them have all the other Admin Permissions that come along with the group its placed in on the Admin Panel. Is there ANY way to make this possible? We have VB4.1.11

Thank You Everyone for your time

[Disco_Stu]

Works great with 4.2.PL1

Thanks for the mod!

[ForumsMods]

History:
11-07-12: v4.0.1 Added Delay Option

[EasyEazy]

History:
11-07-12: v4.0.1 Added Delay Option

Would it be possible to add the option that we can have this mod to show in the ModCP as well as the adminCP?

[lindmar]

Do you have to put something in the from box.?

[Glockie]

Is anyone getting any closer to enabling html in messages?

[Jennifer2010]

Is anyone getting any closer to enabling html in messages?

Instead of HTML you can use the vBulletin markups to achieve the same effect. For example, if you want to include clickable links in your pm, use the URL tags that you would use creating a thread or post (vbulletin.org doesn't let me type the actual tags, they won't show up in this post.). This works for other things like images, etc.

Since these are PM's, HTML (I think) is usually disabled by default in vBulletin. You could try enabling it for your usergroups or whatever (maybe just the administrator?) and then try sending out an HTML pm to users and see if it uses the HTML markup.

[Jennifer2010]

For those with mysql has gone away errors when trying to send a lot of PM's - you will need to increase these limits in your MySQL settings to (found in my.cnf in the /etc/ folder in your root directory of your server):

interactive_timeout=28000
wait_timeout=28000
connect_timeout=28000

My defaults are much less, but I increase them to send 40,000 pm's, then revert them back to what they are normally.

You'll want to contact your host to change these if you don't know how - but under a shared hosting account you may not be able to.

[Jennifer2010]

I do get the error "Please go back and fill out all required fields" even though all fields are required, and it already spent 10 minutes sending out PM's. Seems more like a script error than anything else.

[birre]

Installed - and this was a great plugin!

Tank you so much for shearing with the rest of us:)

[smirkley]

How do I permently uncheck the usergroup options for guests and waiting email confirmation. These persons will never be sent a pm.

[ringnews24]

I have this installed but There is no mass pm option under the users menu.

Help Please :-)

[Obi Wan]

Hi, I need an option, to start at certain value (offset) to continue the mass pm

[Obi Wan]

Hi, I need an option, to start at certain value (offset) to continue the mass pm

in deutsch:

Ich w?rde den Massen-PN Versand gerne ab User-ID 200 starten (und mir so die 200 unn?tigen PNs sparen).

Wer kann eine Offset Option hinzuf?gen ?

[TTayfun]

thanks.

[trifive]

I installed and it works great, I wanted to use the pm instead of mass emailing my member to stay off of the spammers blacklist.

But now my problem is that when the pm's are sent , everyone gets an email from my forum saying they just got a pm, so how do I stop the notification email to members when I send them all a pm.

Please help

Thanks

otis

[addamroy]

I would love to see a 'check all' and 'uncheck all' button on the send PM page. Kind of annoying unclicking them all when you only want to send to a couple of usergroups.

Also a bbcode editor attached would be great so we don't have to manually type bbcode to format our messages.

[M.C.]

very usefull tool, thanks! 4.2 pl3 no hustle ;)

[hunter22375]

Nice!!!!

[tpearl5]

thanks for this!

[1320Nation]

This is a very good mod. However, it would be a 5 star mod if it logged the members that were sent a PM. :up:

[Spangle]

I have tried both versions of this and I don't get the option in the USERS dropdown menu

[Morning11]

I have tried both versions of this and I don't get the option in the USERS dropdown menu

SAME

[DannyC55]

Doesn't appear to do what i want it to do... Thought I'd be able to PM an entire usergroup?

[DreadsUK]

I have tried both versions of this and I don't get the option in the USERS dropdown menu

same

[mariannet]

Works perfect 4.2.2 :)

[kandhro]

Hello
i have installed this plugin , all went smooth, but the issue is i cant see the "Send PM to Users" option in ACP - users, what to do ? how to fix this issue plz suggest

1 - Although i have tried to uninstall the mod and then reinstalled but the problem remains same,
2 - Already iam using Kbank mod and that mode is heaving a file named as "cpnav_kbank.xml" in /upload/includes/xml
is this file causing issue ? please help me resolving the above issue.....

Regards

[fxdigi-cash]

it works fine on vb4.x latest version...
Thanks

[kandhro]

it works fine on vb4.x latest version...
Thanks

Hello
mate iam using VB Version 4.2.0 , i think it should work ... should not ?
please help

[aldamon]

This mod works great. One question though: If PM notifications are enabled, will they still be processed through the mailqueue or will they go out en masse?

[Gripi]

Hello..

Thanks for the mods, working at 4.2 pl3

[aldamon]

This mod works great. One question though: If PM notifications are enabled, will they still be processed through the mailqueue or will they go out en masse?

I answered my own question. I was still pissing off my host with my previous mailqueue schedule, so I dropped it down to 60/hour. I can confirm that the PM notification E-mails run fine through the mailqueue. The number in vB CP is slowly counting down and haven't heard from the host yet. Good enough pace for our purposes but just need to plan ahead a bit.

[exploringnh]

I am fairly new to installing mods and things like that in VB, I have had good luck with a few mods, but I can't figure out where to install the files on my web server per the instructions. Can somebody provide me with a better walk through on how to install the files and where?

Thank You in advance.