Sure kicked in the forums statistics for the day, I installed the mod at 1ish this AM and the mailer hit up about 340 members that have been inactive and 114 came back to post so far today... Many thanks for this hack and you have my vote!

All the best!

that is excellent news!

Though I have Email notification for PMs, and they do get sent out, I don't have it set where members can email each other. Does this have something to do with V-Bulletin not sending out notifications of Inactivity?

BTW, I did check the Logs and nothing has been sent out. Thanks.

can ezbouncer could be integrated into these emails?

Yep, i checked logs and nothing displayed for that mod, looks like broken or something

Yes, very easily.

Open reminderemail.php. Find:

Add after:

Edit:

The last line above is word-wrapping for some reason. It should be:

Upload remindermail.php to your ./includes/cron/ directory.

Thanks DJ Baxter :)

Doesn't effect it.

Post a screenshot of your settings.

this mod needed a lot of changes to make it work

main thing was change mail() to vbmail()

use the api guys.. that is what its there for.

thanks author for sharing tho.

im still new to vb modding - but looking it over i have changed the code. should work in a much more efficient way. i just need to test and upload. wont be until tomorrow though.

Fyuh this could be hack of the year :)

I have question and maybe you can add to install instruction

I had install this hack today and set Days of Inactivity for 7 days, when is it the first email will be sended? right after install or 7 days again after install?

Right after the install for anyone who has been inactive for at least 7 days.

That may be a tad short for most forums, though. I'd suggest more like 60-90 days. You don't want to annoy your members.

Does anyone know if this will work on vb 3.5.x ?

Thanks

Yes, it works fine on 3.65.

My question was does it work with VB 3.5.x not 3.6.x

So it was. That's what not enough coffee does to me. Makes me blind and dyslexic. :eek:

I don't know the answer to that. I believe it's only been tested on versions 3.6x. Give it a try and see?

I just installed first thing this morning on 3.65 (fresh install) and upon manually running the cron job via AdminCP I see the following error:

Any ideas why I would see this? The only change I made was adding the EZBounce code to 'reminderemail.php' as per this earlier post.

With that error - did anything actually get sent out? Haven't received any mail yet, although it's only been about 5 minutes since running the job.

Thanks in advance.

yup works fine on mine 3.5.4,i had to add the cron manually tho

For some reason, one of the lines word-wrapped when I posted it previously and editing the post won't fix it. Please note that the following should be a single line:

post a screenshot. But here are the settings:

Is this product active? Yes

Days of Inactivity

How many days a user can go without posting before they are considered inactive. 30

How often to send a reminder email once a member has become inactive. 30

List the usergroups that you wish to send the emails to here. (Seperate by commas) eg. 2,3,4,7
2,26,32,37


Set the inactivity based on the last post made by the user. If set to no, the inactivity will be set by the last activity field (ie, when the member last visited) Yes.

You're credited, etc.

Thanks.

I have that as single line already - so when I ran it for the first time it was in place.

Not sure where to look now? Any other ideas?

Can you tell me - as it produced that error message - was anything sent at all? Or did it just fail due to that particular message?

Thanks.

Here is the email that was sent out. I got this from 2 different people


so this email sends in plaintext, but uses HTML. Which makes a mess. Is there a setting I am missing?



:confused:

they may have HTML emails disabled

I realize that, but its a problem.

Another user got this email... Slightly different.

jap got the same problem as joeychgo

it's plain text with htmltags throughout the text. barely readable :(

and no, it's not a client issue, because other htmlmails do work

I have a question about the options...

With "Days of Inactivity" you have this as the description:
How many days a user can go without posting before they are considered inactive.

And then an option closer to the bottom is "Inactivity based on last post" with the description of:
Set the inactivity based on the last post made by the user. If set to no, the inactivity will be set by the last activity field (ie, when the member last visited)

So...is the first question going off of the last time they posted? Or the last time that they were on the board? I would like it if it was the last time they were on the board since I have a lot of lurkers which the "welcome" mod should take care of them if they want to ever post. I just don't want to bother members that are on the site and just decide not to post...

Thanks for this mod tho! It's great. I'll be sure to keep the footer ad on my site for ya ;)

If you select time since last activity, "days" are calculated fromm last activity, not last post.

joeychgo, I'd suggest you check your email server. It's sending in HTML/rich text as far as I know. The only way I can see users getting different emails is if you edited the default email and one got it before the edit and one after.

OK, I removed all references to 'EZbounce' from reminderemail.php and still get the above error. Any further ideas?

Thanks.

Thanks again for this. Having numerous members saying they have come back because of the e-mail.

Other emails, including combull (which uses HTML email), send just fine. The problem is in the hack, not my server or my clients.



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Maybe you just dont have inactive users? Providing the plugin is running and saying "No emails to send" then as far as im concerned everything is working okay. it uses simple conditionals.


When i wrote the plugin description, the plugin worked only from lastpost activity, and you didn't have the option. I forgot to update the descriptions when i gave users the choice.

When I clicked run in schedule tasks I got this:

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Inactive User Reminder Emails

Warning: main(/home/trickfly/public_html/forum/includes/cron/remindermail.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 108

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/trickfly/public_html/forum/includes/cron/remindermail.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 108

Done

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How to correct this ?

Where would I change the return address in this? Its set to nobody@ right now... I would like to change it.

It looks like you forgot to upload remindermail.php to your /forum/includes/cron/ directory.

Admin CP | vBulletin Options | vBulletin Options | Site Name / URL / Contact Details

Scroll down to find: Webmaster's Email

Ditto here - Installed and working, but the emails are in plain text with html tags. Looking at the source of the message, I can see it is sending with
Thus, the email readers are quite correctly displaying it as plain text, despite the html tags in it.

So would the fix be to change

to

???

hmm.. that is set..

I guess I meant the return-path

When my user activation emails go out they show my Webmasters email..

When this goes out is shows nobody@server

I've checked. There are users who have not logged in for 30 days+; which is what I have it set to. I'll look around in the some other settings though.

I installed this today and set it up per the instructions. To test it out I manually kicked it off job but it only sent out to 7 members even though there are over 1000 inactive. Two of the members emailed just joined this morning.

What could be causing this?