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So we have a massive interest in a mod for a mailing-list like behaviour of e-mail notifications.

What is the current status quo?

I would be willing to pay also for this mod, I am sure others too.

If you just take the list out of this thread so far, who said they want to have this mod and all those people contribute, it must be easy to finance, right?

So look to the quotes a attached, so you know who could be a co-financer of this mod:

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Originally Posted by AyeCapn (Post 1213833)

I'd be willing to pay for a mod of this mod that would allow listserv behaviour like a Yahoo! group. Email notification of all new posts by those who request that feature. Profile checkbox or something.

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Originally Posted by Eq4bits (Post 1231260)

I'd be willing to contribute as well :D
We moved from Yahoo! groups as well and the only nit-pik my users have is the fact they don't get an email of their own posts even to subscribed threads. They originally missed the 'ease' of posting by email as well but they got over it :wink:
*runs off to install this hack*

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Originally Posted by Viking Monkey (Post 1235294)

Hi,

What I would like is to auto subscribe registered users and above to every forum without them having to do anything so they will always hear about all posts.

Is that possible with this?

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Originally Posted by Tralala (Post 1235364)

I'd like the same, as an option is that's possible. Asking each user to go in and manually subscribe to each is asking too much. I'd like to auto subscribe them by default!

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Originally Posted by Bill Bickley (Post 1241320)

That is EXACTLY what I came looking for....

Bill

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Originally Posted by Cyricx (Post 1240059)

Hmm I should have read through this whole thread before sending you a PM :)

I actualy have a working alpha script that interacts with the forums just like yahoo groups.

The email posts look like crap, and I'm currently working on the preg matches to clean that up. But I'm in the alpha already.

Perhaps we should get together and see what we can come up with?

I've got the email catch working, cron job runs every 10 minutes.

For forums that are enabled for the email integration and that a user has subscribed to when a new thread or new post is posted from the forums, an email is sent.

From email, a user can post a new thread, or replies to one of the emails they receive.

When the cron runs every 10 minutes, it'll grab those emails post them, and email the user the post just as if it had been posted from the forum.

Completely interacting just like yahoogroups :D :D

Just gotta clean up the install and stuff so a noob can install it, and clean up the emails a TON. Damn line breaks are driving me nutz on that :)

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Originally Posted by rjmjr69 (Post 1250710)

Thats very good news. Can not wait to see this once its done.. Thanks keep up the good work

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Originally Posted by bobb06810 (Post 1253580)

Our forum also would greatly benefit if the Admin could simply take a list of current users and

1. switch their current forum subscriptions to Instant Email. (we've installed the mod, and it works well.)

2. easily subcribe current users to all (or some, as dictated by the Admin) forums to receive Instant Email Notification

3 And if there was a way for new users to automatically be defaulted to Instant Email Notification for all (or some, as dictated by the Admin) forums.

Has anyone fully, or partly, solved these yet?

Thanks.

Bob B

PLUS all the guys from this thread:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107940

Red Tiger & Cyricx, there is support for you!

So let's act and not only discus those things!

I've been on vacation since 5/19, just got back in town yesterday. I'm hoping to have a beta version out in a few days.

No guarantees as I to have a few things on my plate to take care of after being out of town for 10 days :)

I just need to package it up and make sure I have all the steps in the install instructions correct. :)

I can't sell the mod as the skeleton came from Colin F's code which he asked I release it for free here, and it also incorporates Red Tygers code in a small part of the mod.

But contributions will be appreciated once I get the beta released :)

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Originally Posted by RedTyger (Post 1199463)

This modification only enables notification for brand new threads. Replies are already dealt with by the default vBulletin settings.

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Originally Posted by RedTyger (Post 1232030)

Ok so what you want is essentially for every member to receive instant email subscriptions for everything, new threads and new posts?

I'd like this, but on a per forum basis.
I'd like to have one forum that is this mass notification scenario. Not all forums.

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Please sign me up for the beta. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Cyricx (Post 1256934)

Hi, I was just wondering if there has been any progress made on this? I'm sure you have much more pressing things to be doing, but I'm eagerly (as I'm sure lots of people here are) awaiting this new mod :)

cheers

Any idea when the new Yahoo group mailing list mod will be ready?

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Originally Posted by attilio (Post 1268291)

Any idea when the new Yahoo group mailing list mod will be ready?

I have a few things I have to do for the not-for-profit site I'm working on that pushed up on the priority list. Once I have those done I'll send out a beta :) Unfortunately, the code for pre-registering for an event at the end of august is a higher priority then finishing the mailing list mod :(, but it shouldn't be much more then another week.

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Originally Posted by Cyricx (Post 1268967)

Coolness, please keep us posted :)

cheers
Rhys

Hey, sorry to keep bugging you about this but how are you getting on with that mod? We are still very interested, but obviously if real paying work in getting in the way I understand :)

I have had no contact from the developer despite repeated attempts. It is my theory that he was abducted by aliens.

Until the aliens get done probing him, you might want to check out Cyricx's variant of this mod:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=151222

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Originally Posted by AyeCapn (Post 1286754)

I have had no contact from the developer despite repeated attempts. It is my theory that he was abducted by aliens.

Does this work with 3.6.8?

Thanks

Is there a way to detect if a user is subscribed to the forum they are viewing? I don't want to display a large, bold SUBSCRIBE TO THIS FORUM' link if they are already subscribed. I would also lke access to which forums they are subscribed to, so I can have a 'Forum subscription management' page. Would these features be possible?
Other than that, nice mod, thanks!

can I choose default value for new users.
I mean subscribe them to the forums or not by default...

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Originally Posted by bela-meaad (Post 1318874)

Does this work with 3.6.8?

Thanks

any one?

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Originally Posted by bela-meaad (Post 1347992)

any one?

Yes.

I am having a problem with this plugin (which I like a lot BTW). There is one forum that I DON'T want a email notification for (a industry news feed). I have gone to the options and included the ID for this forum on the "DO NOT allow new thread notifications for Forums" and yet I still get a email notification everytime there is a news post added. Has anybody else experienced this? Am I missing something?

Does someone have to go in and actually subscribe to each forum within a category for this to work?

For example, I have a category that contains roughly 40 forums. Can a user subscribe to the category so they are notified of any new thread made in any forum under it?

We have installed this plugin however whenever someone makes a post with vbCode or HTML included in their post, the raw code is displaying in the email body of the notification. Anyone know how to fix this?

Has noone else experience the issue of the bbcode displaying in raw text in the body of the email notification? This feature is a neccessity for our site but if it continues to show the bbcode, we'll have to look elsewhere for a solution... where, I have no idea.

Does anyone know which file is used to handle the sending of the email notifications? I'd like to find the actual code that handles this function.

Converting the bbcode to html would be a nice mod, if you can pull it off. Please keep us advised.

Until then, I'm not going to let it bother me. I've been notified there's a new post; all I have to do is click the link to read it without all the garbage.

Hi

I installed this hack, but it does not work. The suer can susbscribe to the forum with instant notification, but when I start a new thread with another user, no e-mail notification is sent out.

The usergroup is enabled and the forum too. E-mail address is correct. The moderator gets also the posting, so no issue of the mail server.

vb 3.68

Any ideas why this does not work?

Make sure the server is setup to handle the number of emails per hour. Most servers - shared are set to 100 emails per hour limit, most dedicated or semi dedicated servers are set to allow 250 emails per hour. This is per website on the server.

Since I have a dedicated server, that hosts my vBulletin forums, I have it set to unlimited as I can have over 2200 emails per hour in / out.

Once you reach the limit, it no longer sends emails out, and does not inform you that you went over the allowed limit. Contact your server host and ask them to check your email logs to see what happend to those emails. If they tell you your going over the limit, ask them nicely to increase the hourly limit.

Does this work? It wasn't, even with 3.6. And not now since ug to 3.7. Thanks.

It's always worked fine in 3.6.8 for me.

Initial reports from one of my mods said it wasn't working in 3.7. I diddled with the settings a bit and tried it myself, and it's working fine.

Hi, I just installed this on my 3.7 board. it sent out an instant notification just fine BUT the link to the thread sent out in the email produces a 404 error.

Has anyone else encountered this?

thanks

Are you upgrading this for 3.7? Its a much wanted feature on my forum

I figured this out BTW, it was total administrator error on my part. I had moved my forum to a new directory, and forgot to change one of the VB options referring back to the old directory. changed the option,and now this mod is working great for me!

rob

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Originally Posted by bendingpixels (Post 1520601)

I have a forum with about 150 members. Is there a script I can run after I install this that will subscribe all members to all forums for instant email notification?

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Originally Posted by Battle_Ring (Post 1538821)

Are you upgrading this for 3.7? Its a much wanted feature on my forum

This works on 3.7, or it did for me, without problems.

Does this work with Project Tools? Since the threads have the links /project.php?projectid=xx I am wondering if the code accommodates this.

It seems that with this script only works on forums that are not moderated. It would seem possible to fire this plugin off AFTER a thread has been validated by a moderator.
I also use a hack that requires moderation of a new users' first post. Users are spared much spam as a result. Only problem is that forum subscribers DO NOT receive email notification IF the thread was moderated.
Am I missing something here? If this is the current behavior, is there a workaround?

I have a huge problem that i really wanna have help with to solve. This script is awsome and thenak u for this but now i have a major problem at my site. I have paid subscriptions for some forumareas at my site and the payers will have a mail notification as soon our betting experts put up a pick on the forum. That works fine. But if the subscription has run put of time and our users goes back to normal member again they still get mail but we don´t wnt them getting anyone. Please help!

Exactly what I was looking for, but no emails are received. I do see the instant notification option when subscribing to a forum (not there without the mod).

Just no emails.

Thoughts?

Do you get emails for regular subscriptions?

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Yep, and I get my copy of broadcast emails sent via the "email users" function.

Bill

Update:

It appears my regular subscription email notifications are NOT coming through as they should, or at least not reliably. I ran the email diagnostic, and that test email came through just fine.

For the moment, I'm stuck as to what to try next.

Bill

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Originally Posted by snoopy5 (Post 1501380)

o.k. I tried it again and I found the bug. The plugin works fine as long as you do not retsrict this fetaure for a specific usergroup.

In ACP/vboptions/newtheradnotification/

There is the option:

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Allow new thread notification for Usergroups:

As soon as you type in teher a usergroup ID, it does not work anymore. The suer of the usergroup can enable the instant notification of that forum, but no e-mail arrives. No matter which usergroup I put in ther for testing, it just does not send e-mail out.

As soon as I leave that field blank, it works.

So this is really sad. This plugin makes the most sense, if you can offer it for a premium usergroup only, so that they support you with paypal subscriptions to get this feature.

If only everybody can use it, it would be almost useless for me. I need ideas to finance my board.

So how can I fix this bug?

(vb 3.7.3 PL1)

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