[DBTech] DragonByte Newsletter v1 (vB4)

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Newsletter is the latest in the lineup of DragonByte Technologies modifications, enabling you to send an automated newsletter to your members.

Uses
DragonByte Newsletter lets you send an automated digest to users, containing the most popular threads from the last week. Users have powerful 1-click solutions for either reducing or increasing the frequency of your newsletter (Weekly, Bi-Monthly, Monthly, Quarterly, Bi-Yearly, Yearly), as well as an 1-click unsubscribe button.

The newsletter itself can be styled and re-coloured based on your forum's preferences by editing the simple HTML templates. By default, it styles itself to look like the Default Style included in every vBulletin installation.

The scheduled task ensures a limited amount of users are processed at a time, reducing server load and increasing the delivery rate of your newsletter.

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Other addons available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com/forum (http://www.DragonByte-Tech.com/forum.php)
Support posted at our forum is generally answered much quicker.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Major Features

Automatically Chosen: Threads are chosen and ordered based on an advanced algorithm to display the most popular threads first.

Automatically Sent: Newsletters are sent automatically based on the user's preferences, no admin interaction required!

Performance Oriented: By limiting how many users are processed per batch cycle, the performance of your forum will not be impacted.


Major Features (Pro)

Forum Exclusion: Have a spam section where members can post as much as they want? You are able to fine-tune what source forums the newsletter pulls its threads from.

Introduction Section: Want to write a custom introduction blurb for your newsletter, e.g. sponsorship links or similar? You can define a custom block of text to appear above the thread list.


Complete Feature List (Lite)

vBulletin Options

Display Version Number
(Optional) Affiliate ID
Enable/Disable Modification


1-Click Management

Reduce Frequency
Increase Frequency
Unsubscribe


Manage Newsletters

Title
Optionally only include publicly accessible forums
Choose entry cost & currency from list of created currencies
Enable Advanced Sorting algorithm
Limit how many threads appear in the newsletter


Scheduled Task: Send Newsletter

Automatically sends newsletters based on the users' preferences
Sends them in batch to improve performance
Runs every 10 minutes



Complete Feature List (Pro)

Manage Newsletters

Introduction to be displayed above newsletters
Thread Sort Order (if not using Advanced Sorting)


UserCP

Subscribed/Unsubscribed
Frequency

Weekly (default)
Bi-Monthly
Monthly
Quarterly
Bi-Yearly
Yearly




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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of emails generated by this mod which includes:

1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[gsmlover4u]

thanks i was waiting like this mod

[djbaxter]

Does not respect the "Receive Admin Emails" setting. Members choosing "No" still get sent the newsletter.

[Morrus]

This would be really useful if it sent CMS articles instead of threads.

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Newsletter v1.0.1

Changes To Existing Features:

Emails will no longer be sent to users that have opted out of admin emails



Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Newsletter v1.1.0

New Features:

Test Mode

Can be accessed via /newsletter.php?do=test&newsletterid=1
Shows a preview of how the newsletter will look when sending
Great for reviewing style changes



Fillip

[Manoel J?nior]

1. How to choose the Forums to send the Newsletter?
2. Setting to be changed some layout features, such as adding blocks?
3. Setting the groups that can access Newsletter?
4. There is the possibility of including an option for the user to receive the newsletter and periodidade?
5. How do I set the frequency of submission?

[DragonByte Tech]

1. How to choose the Forums to send the Newsletter?This is chosen automatically based on permissions :)
2. Setting to be changed some layout features, such as adding blocks?You can customise the template.
3. Setting the groups that can access Newsletter?There's no UG perms at this time.
4. There is the possibility of including an option for the user to receive the newsletter and periodidade?Sorry, I don't understand this.
5. How do I set the frequency of submission?There's no setting for this, the user controls it themselves.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Newsletter v1.1.0 Patch Level 1

Bug Fixes:

In certain scenarios, the scheduled task could get stuck trying to send a newsletter to ineligible people



Fillip

[rohirrim]

Good mod but I don't see any setting on usercp? (Subscribed/Unsubscribed
Frequency)
using vb 4.2.3

[Anders64]

When i try to add XML file i got this falier forums/packages/DBTech/Newsletter/Autoloader.php appears to be missing! what im i doing wrong

[pjkcards]

Does this default to every member until they unsubscribe?

[pjkcards]

Can we receive data on open rates? I'd pay for this service. We need a way to clean our email list too, as lots of bounces.

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Newsletter v1.1.0 Patch Level 2

Bug Fixes:

Certain mail clients would not correctly display the links in the mod



Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Newsletter v1.1.0 Patch Level 3

Changes To Existing Features:

The "Test Mode" will now ignore Bounce Flag and missing email address



Fillip

[Morrus]

Please, please add a setting to regularly send out news articles rather than threads!

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Newsletter v1.1.1

New Features:

Unsubscribe Link

The unsubscribe link now always displays a redirect message, regardless of the forum?s settings
Clicking the unsubscribe link multiple times will no longer act as a "toggle" for their subscription status



Fillip

[bosanci28]

How you send a test out? to see if it works?

[moonclamp]

I just ran the scheduled task - but it told me "214" newsletters were sent out; so I'm not sure why it stopped at that number.

[DragonByte Tech]

I just ran the scheduled task - but it told me "214" newsletters were sent out; so I'm not sure why it stopped at that number.It processes them in batches, some users will be skipped (e.g. they have opted out of receiving admin emails).


Fillip

[moonclamp]

It processes them in batches, some users will be skipped (e.g. they have opted out of receiving admin emails).


Fillip
Thank you :)

I assumed that was the case - I have a good few thousand members and most of them receive admin emails. I will keep my eyes open to see if people are getting them.

Also, and not that important as I can edit the language file, but I cannot see the option to edit my newsletter text ...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=153212&d=1440594914

[DragonByte Tech]

Did you remember to assign yourself as Super Administrator? People who reference options usually are missing the left-side bar due to missing admin permissions.

Fillip

[moonclamp]

Did you remember to assign yourself as Super Administrator? People who reference options usually are missing the left-side bar due to missing admin permissions.


Fillip
I'm definitely a superadmin ... maybe that's a screenshot of the pro-version?

[concepts]

Is it possible this could pull the PREFIX as well in plain text? My sites content is prefix drive, so that would be a great benefit.

[moonclamp]

Quite a few of my members are reporting blank emails arriving.

I'm going to try to find out what providers they are using and whether it's because they're using webmail ... but it's not looking great.

[moonclamp]

Quite a few of my members are reporting blank emails arriving.

I'm going to try to find out what providers they are using and whether it's because they're using webmail ... but it's not looking great.Nope, nothing to do with webmail - some users are reporting this in Outlook too. :confused:

[DragonByte Tech]

I'm definitely a superadmin ... maybe that's a screenshot of the pro-version?Ah, yeah sorry about that, the "Introduction" text box is indeed a Pro-only feature.

Is it possible this could pull the PREFIX as well in plain text? My sites content is prefix drive, so that would be a great benefit.Sorry I'm not sure what you mean, could you clarify please?

Quite a few of my members are reporting blank emails arriving.

I'm going to try to find out what providers they are using and whether it's because they're using webmail ... but it's not looking great.Are you using vBSecurity? There's a bug in the current version that causes it to send blank emails, it will be fixed in Monday's update.


Fillip

[moonclamp]

Are you using vBSecurity? There's a bug in the current version that causes it to send blank emails, it will be fixed in Monday's update.
No I'm not, but I'll see what happens with the update.

Thank you :)

[moonclamp]

Are you using vBSecurity? There's a bug in the current version that causes it to send blank emails, it will be fixed in Monday's update.Was this an update for vbsecurity or an update for this?

Not using vbsecurity here but members are still getting blank emails.

Strangely some of the recipients who received blank email first time received the newsletter this time ... and vice-versa!

[DragonByte Tech]

Was this an update for vbsecurity or an update for this?

Not using vbsecurity here but members are still getting blank emails.

Strangely some of the recipients who received blank email first time received the newsletter this time ... and vice-versa!vBSec, I've not heard any reports of blank emails from this mod as this mod does not use phrases to send emails like vBSec does.


Fillip

[moonclamp]

Unfortunately will have to uninstall then. No worries :)

[rumas]

How do members subscribe again? I have a member who unsubscribed by accident now wants to re-subscribe. Is there a link?

[DragonByte Tech]

This is done via the UserCP :)


Fillip

[Bulent Tekcan]

How can we block some usergroups ? For example banned and temp. banned group not need to send.

Regards

[DragonByte Tech]

How can we block some usergroups ? For example banned and temp. banned group not need to send.

RegardsAt this time, there's no way to exclude user groups from receiving the newsletter.


Fillip

[helalmail]

I installed it but I cant see how to manage it
in options >> nothing except general
in CP >> nothing to be used to manage

Can any one help ?

[djbaxter]

At this time, there's no way to exclude user groups from receiving the newsletter.


Fillip

Not really correct. Just set the excluded groups to not receive admin emails and the newsletter will not be sent to those users.

[iask]

Does this also apply to vbulletin 5?

[DragonByte Tech]

Does this also apply to vbulletin 5?
No, you should not use vB5 if you are interested in running custom modifications.


Fillip

[khalled]

is there is any way to prevent this product from send mail to inactive members , or send mail to specific members group depend on registration date or last member activity or registration group

[mchll9898]

is there is any way to prevent this product from send mail to inactive members , or send mail to specific members group depend on registration date or last member activity or registration group

^ Any answer to this?

[BrianP]

hello there, we installed and run newsletter.php then we see only a white page plus a warning

PHP Warning: array_merge(): Argument #1 is not an array in ..../global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 25

[Hostboard]

hello there, we installed and run newsletter.php then we see only a white page plus a warning

PHP Warning: array_merge(): Argument #1 is not an array in ..../global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 25

What PHP version are you running?