But if it's the host that is the cause of this issue, why aren't they blocking the senders name on the emails admin receive?

Also, if that is the case, is there a way to get around that?

Good question!!! :) Answer: I have no idea, at the moment. :) However, I'll definitely look into it more and include it in my testing of later versions.

Sounds great! Thanks for providing A+ support for your mods.

I've subscribed to the thread and will keep my eyes open for any updates :)

Keep up the good work.

Thanks a lot for this mod, I just installed it. So from what I understand, it will send a number of emails specified in settings every N number (times) specified in CRON JOBS settings (default 1 hour 30 min). I have a large board with 115k users with about 20k inactive users, I've set the number of emails to send to 10 and an interval to 30 min, is this a good setting? Because if I leave it at 5 emails per session and 1 hr and 30 min, it will take forever to send them.

Thank you very much again and I will rate this mod in a couple of days.

You're correct to a point. It's not 1 hour and 30 mins, it actually means that the cron job will run every day at 1:30 in the morning.

Based on a tutorial I checked out just to confirm my understanding. If you look at this chart, it will show that the cron job is laid out like this:

minute hour [day of month] [Month] [Day of Week]

Field Locations and Meaning:

1.Minute (0-59)
2.Hour (0-23)
3.Day of month (1-31)
4.Month (1-12, Jan, Feb, ...)
5.Day of week (0-6) 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, ... or Sun, Mon, etc)
6.Command to execute

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/05/6.png

I would strongly recommend resetting it back to process at midnight or in the early morning hours. You may want to check with your host provider and see if there is a limit to now many emails you can send at one time. I imagine it would also depend on how you have vBulletin itself configured. Do you use the mailqueue or do you send email out immediately? I haven't worked with large amounts like that before so I don't know what your hosting situation you have or what it will support. To be on the safe side till more can be determined I'd try small batches of maybe 100 - 200 then increase it by 100 or so.


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/03/9.png

Members get an inactivity grace period... which a site admin would set to 1 or more days. This means that a user would have to be inactive for that number of days before they would receive their first reminder email. In the example above, users would have to be inactive for 30 days. They would receive an email reminder on their 31st day.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/05/6.png

Depending on what you have set in this field. If for instance you have 7, this would send out a reminder every 7 days until that user logs back in and/or posts a message.

Does this answer your questions and/or concerns? Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you very much Archet! :) I'm still fairly new at this but this is kind of my stepping stone to developing larger addons and mods for vBulletin. I know this is a small mod but my goal in is to provide quality software and support... "Knock your socks off" support is what I like to call it. lol :)

5 Stars, Installed.
Thank you.

I have a question, as it starts and when it send the mails? The active or only when you have to give somewhere.
Thank you.

Thank you as well! :) I'm not sure I understand your question though. The mod is disabled on install so you would need to go into the mod settings to enable it after you install it, if that's what you are asking.

Hello, thank you very much for your reply.
My question forgiveness that I could not explain well is the following.

When I install it as I make starts sending messages from the moment I put it. Or as begins automatically sent to the 7 days? thanks.

Pd. Sorry i am spanish :-)

?No un problema! :)

La Opci?n del Per?odo de gracia de la Inactividad deja de pagar a 7 d?as en instala primero.
Los usuarios o los miembros tendr?an que ser inactivos 7 d?as antes de recibir un correo electr?nico.
Quiz?s sea preferible poner esto a un n?mero m?s alto

La opci?n para cuando correos electr?nicos son enviados son puestos a 30 d?as en instala primero.

Perm?tame saber si esto no es traducido correctamente y contesta su pregunta. :)