Mine are as follows (using version 1.09):

Days of Inactivity = 90
How many days a user can go without posting before they are considered inactive.

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

Email Quantity = 10
How many emails to send each time cron runs (Lower means faster board, but longer to send all emails. Higher, vice versa.)

I'm sorry, but I think I've set the address correctly.
Using vBulletin 3.6.4, btw. Could that be the problem?

lol will let you off


i've only personally tested it on 3.6.5, but i cant see why it would be a problem..

installed!

Oh heck.. I was having the problem of people complaining about getting emails way too frequently too.. Can someone verify what this setting does?

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

Is that frequency in DAYS? How many days apart to send them? If so it needs reworded. I thought it was how many emails to send them before stopping.

Yes, that's correct. And yes, it does need some rewording - perhaps "Days between reminders" would be better.

Well, i beg to differ - "how often", last time I checked the English language, does not mean in any way, shape, or form "how many"

I should have specified that it is measured in days however, I will hold my hands up to that one.

;)

I don't think "how often" is the part that's confusing people. I think it's the phrase "email frequency".

Frequency "The property or condition of occurring at frequent intervals."


Should i dumb it down for people? I thought that "frequency" was a common word, not some fancy tech talk?

I think a different phrase would likely remove the confusion which seems to have affected numerous people who've installed the add-on. As I said above, perhaps using "Days between reminders" would eliminate most of the confusion (reading the thread would eliminate all of it but you know that's not going to happen for many people).

By the way, congratulations on Mod of the Month for April!

Hi .. :)

I'm just about to implement and try this....

You've used HTML coding, but the sample as delivered in the mod is "plain text". Do both approaches work when mailed to the member?

Is there some way I can test this on a single user (ie: myself), to see what it looks like when it arrives?

Thanks for any feedback...

Regards,
Badger

I'm using version 1.09 of this add-on which does send emails in rich text/html format. If you send a plain text email, the member would need to cut and paste the link into his browser.

That's interesting.....

I downloaded v1.11....

So, if I'm creating an email to use with this version, I should format and use just plain simple text?

.... or, re-download v1.09 and use soething like your elegant HTML email?

Have I understood it correctly?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

I think it's your choice.

If 1.11 is working for you and you're happy with it, then format the message for plain text.

Some people have found 1.10 and 1.11 to be buggy. To be honest, I've forgotten what didn't work well for me - I reverted to 1.09 which for me has always worked well.

I believfe Chris is still working on an update intended to address the issues with 1.11.

Thanks ...

Well, I'm a virgin user, so maybe I'll go with something that you know works.... :D

I'll uninstall v1.11 and install v1.09, then I'll plagerize some of your HTML email and use it, if you don't mind? :)

Thanks again for the feedback....

Regards,
Badger

Be my guest. :)

Thanks... :)

I think just discovered what the "clarity" chatter was all about in v1.09, which I just installed.... :D

I hope this makes sense.....



I assume I set the cron up to run every HOUR or so?

Regards,
Badger

I have mine set to run hourly. I guess that would depend on how busy your forum is and server resources.

Ok, we have lift off..... :)

Set a couple of test accounts to be over 200 days old since last logged in.....

Went to cron job and said "go for it" ....

One was a Hotmail account which still hasn't arrived... :D I guess they don't like it, or for some reason it hasn't got there yet....

The other was to a regular domain and sure enough, arrived nicely formatted and looking remarkably like your work.... ;)

I reset the cron to send 10 at a time at 16 past the hour and to folks we haven't seen in 90 days. Let's go live...

Thanks again for your help ... :up:

Regards,
Badger

ps: Marked installed v1.09 ....

Hmmmm.. the first automatic cron time came and went, nothing happened....

When I pushed the "do it now" button, 10 emails went out as planned....

Is there something wrong with v1.09 cron job?

I assume I can't out v1.11 cron (PHP) with v1.09?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

I installed the 1.09 version on a vb3.6.5 board. No installation errors but I created a test user group and placed an member with old activity (a test one that I created a few years ago) that has one of my domain valid email addys.

I activated the product and indicated the correct usergroup in the ACP.

I ran the cron almost an hour ago and I have not received the email yet.

Forum is sending all other emails as designed but not this one.

When I ran the cron, the result page only stated this:

Any ideas on where I screwed this up?

Thanks in advance.

ill get onto it, and cheers - im well happy about motm!

i've not had the fre time to work on it. but im keeping up to date with this thread.

Ok, for whatever reason..... cron started working and has been sending out batches of 10 emails an hour for the last several hours, all on it's own... (Note: v1.09) :up:

I've already seen a huge spike in members who haven't been on for 60 days coming back and checking out things. I haven't had one complaint about the emails, but rather three so far saying thanks for reminding them, they had forgotten how much they enjoyed the forum.

Thanks for the development work.... :)

Regards,
Badger

I am so glad you like :D
..but i dont do this for thanks.. i do it for cash..

lol im kidding .. it's all free

Chris is right. He doesn't need the cash. Send it to me :D

Well, it appears to me that in many ways, the two of you seem to be developing this together ... :D

Since you're just up the road from me, the next time you come to the big city let me know and I'll buy you lunch to say thanks... :up:

BTW, overnight... membership log-ins have gone up up almost 40% using this mod ... ;)

Regards,
Badger

Good job. Thanks

Clicks Install

I am still stuck - see above. Any thoughts?

Congrats on winning MOTM! :up:

Any ways is there a way to test this mod? I would like to see what they see as a test.

Thanks,
Kyle

I ended up installed the ver 1.11 and it sent out over 400 emails. Is there a way to control the amount of emails that are sent out each time? Sending out so many emails at once could cause a domain to be blacklisted. OR does this product use what we choose in the ACP->>Email Options:
options['emailsendnum']" colSpan=2>Number of Emails to Send Per Batch
vBulletin includes a mail queuing system to prevent bottlenecks when sending lots of email. Use this option to specify how many emails will be sent per batch.

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If it doesn't I can see this being a problem maybe not right away but it will be a problem as far as blacklistings.

Your thoughts?

I believe if you're using version 1.11, it doesn't actually send all those 400 emails out at once. Rather, it adds them to the vBulletin mail queue.

Chris, please correct me if I'm wrong (I'm actually still using 1.09 myself).

coule you please tell me where the report is? thanx ..great hack meanwhile :D

Gosh I hope so but when I look at the task report, it shows them all going out at the same time.

I couldn't get ver1.09 to work at all which is why I installed the 1.11. Right now I have disabled the cron pending confirmation of whether or not the product uses the vb mail queue.

I don't know about v1.11, but my v1.09 sent out 150 emails over a few days at 10 at a time. I know a lot of folks received them because my logins went up 50% or more. I do know that the test one I sent to a Hotmail account never arrived, but I wonder if that's a filtering thing (blocking?) being done by MSN?

Regards,
Doug

Using ver1.09 ---- I moved one of my old test member names into a test group--- it hadn't accessed the forums for 8 months.

I never got the email nor did the report identify that the email was ever sent. That's why I tried the 1.11. I am crossing my fingers that 400 emails didn't go out at once. I have a large community forum for a small city and 99% of my members live in this community and use one of three IP providers. That is why I am really worried about the blacklisting ---- Can you imagine one or more of these providers received 200 emails from one source in a span of 5 to 10 minutes? Ouch.... I am crossing my fingers that you are right about it using the vb mail queue. If not, I could be toast with the batch that went out last evening.

Great hack!

Is it possible to change the language of the e-mail automatically according to the default language wich a user has set?

any updates to the issue with the quantity being sent out? I am afraid to send some as well, dont want to get blacklisted!

Once there is clarification on the issue I will Install it!!

I am waiting for the response as well... I have the ver1.11 installed (couldn't get v1.09 to work) but I disabled the auto cron so that it won't send any emails until I know for sure about the number of emails being sent at one time.

I will say that out of the 400+ that ver 1.11 said it sent --- I haven't received one single bounced email which I think is very unusual. I am wondering if the emails were sent at all even though the log states they were. I don't know how to test this any other way than to use my test account that hasn't been accessed for over 6 months. I never got an email for that account either.

I've been playing with your mod (v1.11) and it is very useful, but it needs a bit of tweaking. There is a real problem where the from field is not being generated correctly. I initially thought it must be something to do with the email address in vboptions, but it isn't.

I've noticed that the resultant email "from field" can end up as various things, but generally either "bbtiltle <bbtitle>" or bbtitle<servername>. This can lead to the email being rejected by some mail servers (as the sent email does not have a correct email from header, or a domain indicated and no @).

The problem is due to the way vbmail has been used in remindermail.php. The final email from field is not generated by: (line50)
Instead it is from the $from: (line 69)
So all it was generating was a from based on bbtitle. One way to correctly generate a from field containing the board's email is to change $from to use 'webmasteremail': (line 69)

A similar problem can be seen in the reminder report produced (line 79), but this time multiple from email headers are created on the report - one from $from and another from $uheaders.

Yes it adds it to the vbulletin mail queue.
sorry, i;ve got a killer headache right now so im not able to reply to everything.