I have over 2,30,000 members. I tried using this mod but the send queue fails / stops abruptly and then I have to hit the back button. Also it conflicts with vbseo in a way and takes jargon code from footer. We have a nehlam dedicated server.

I'm willing to pay but can someone tell me how

a.) I can send an email to all my members without having to watch the queue page update every x seconds and then stop?

b.) Reduce server loads and ensure the bounced emails are not sent again.

no advices?

I haven't had a problem, but you are over my head with the server knowledge. I have a site with 10,500 members. In the top box of "Settings", I have set it so that only active members in the last 300 days get the newsletter. That really cuts back bounces to uninterested parties.

I found this to a be a problem only when I had the redirect time too low. Seems that the page is reloading and sending to the next page too fast and the page data is being lost.

Your problem is usually related to server load. You probably need to increase the time between pages. This is the biggest problem I've had with this mod in the past, was that sending such big HTML emails really bogs down the server, especially if you have a virus scanner going through every email on sending. Also, the more bounces the server has to handle, the more it bogs down further.

Sending to active users is one solution. Increase the time between sends is another. Dedicated mail server would work, as well. I send to over 100k users every week and it never fails (sending from 4 forums at once, too), but I have a dedicated server.

I have added my own hack using .htaccess and some random image code to track openings. I will probably run some SQL in a month or so to remove users that haven't either opened the email or aren't active (in the last 300 days, for example). That should severely reduce the number of emails being sent.

Of course, another option, if you know someone who has the skills, is to add a bounce-handler.

Great hack, grandeur 69, thank you for this! Just a quick question, I see others are having similar issues. If users are in multiple usergroups the hack seems to leave them out all together. At least thats what I'm thinking. Do you have any suggestions for forums that use secondary usergroups?

Thanks!

Great add-on...work perfectly

Request though, i can sent latest posts, polls, b'days, events...but can we also send out latest blogs and articles? Does anyone knows how?

oh, just one more question:)

I want to greet the user as 'Dear Username', where i want the username to appear, to '\$vbphrase[username]' or just '$username'...or is it something different?

Honestly, I have never used secondary usergroups since the very early days so I can't confirm or deny this issue. I have a huge deadline coming up in the next couple weeks, but I will see about putting one of my other programmers on it, to determine where the issue might be.

No, unfortunately, this hack was developed way before vb4 (and those features existed) and the hack has only been kept up-to-date. There haven't been any really new features added.

the vbphrase[username] is the actual language value, in case you were working with another language or wanted to change it from "Username" to "User" or something along those lines. $username is what actually displays the users actual name (like grandeur_69)

i got this error

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/****/public_html/forum/includes/init.php
Line: 55

when i login i got
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/init.php:55) in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3103