Any idea how much work? ...

We could pay the developer in group.

Yes, we could. But that is not allowed to discuss here.

What we can discuss here is which functions are wanted by people. After that we could post a project in the paid mod requests forum.

Someone I've spoke to has a hack for it installed on their site.

http://www.feelinggood24.de/

I think her ex-husband coded for her. Maybe if we gather up a donation she will release the code to us?

Please check which features have been integrated.

I'd like to see this feature / addon / hack as well, it would be great to make use of a proper mailing list script

Well, that's my website.

Basically it is a simple installation of phplist. So it has all features phplist offers.

What I did at my website: i took a subscription-page which comes with phplist, and edited the outfit so that I can load it via iframe into a vbadvanced module. You also can load it via iframe into every other page at your website, if you don't use vbadvanced. And you also can leave all subscription-pages totally outside your website, if you only need to import your existing vbulletin-users into it and don't need further people to do a subscription themselfes.

The other part is the import-script you need, to import vbulletin-users into your list. I have one running every night via cronjob, so that I don't need to care about it. These are 3 files. They are not programmed to be something "official" and give away. It would probably be to difficult to explain anway, as they need database access and paths must be changed.

Anyway, it someone really needs it, pm me. You also can test at my site the subscription-process for non-vbulletin-users by subscribing through the box at my homepage. Actually I don't send newsletters out, as my site is very new. But anyway, don't forget to unsubscribe later. And ... everything is in german at my page, so I also use phplist with german phrases.

larina

Many thanks for your explanation!

One of the main important things with php list, is that it handles bounced email. This prevents your site from becoming blacklisted as a spammer. (See my article in my signature)

So importing vb members into PHPlist would work for mailing, but it does not solve the problem of vbulletin email that bounces. Or is there a way to list all inactive email addresses and turn the subscriptions of the related members off?

It would be a VERY GOOD idea to have such a Mod...!

has anyone started such work?

Having to come up with a mass-mailing solution, I came across this thread, and I also would like to see a mod for phplist and vbulletin!