How's the mod working for everyone? Any comments, questions, suggestions to add to my to-do list? :)

Mod is working as it should, but seems to be a bug on the email report. It says that emails were invalid but they were sent and received.

I'm 99.9% certain that's what you should be receiving. I'll double check the code, but if there were any users that had invalid email addresses and could not send email to, they would have shown up below the last line. If you enter a bad email address for that test user, one that you know will fail, that report will tell you.

While reviewing the code this evening, I did come across one issue so far related to processing inactive users in a batch configuration. According to the description:

I was originally testing for a blank field or zero length input in this field when it should have been checking for a value greater than zero (0). This has been corrected and I'm attaching the new fix. Drop it into your /forumroot/includes/cron folder and you will be set. I will update the zip file with the fix as well and increment the version count.

That's the way it is designed. if no email addresses or member names are listed after "We tried to email the following users, but their email address was invalid:", it means that no invalid email addresses were found.

I uploaded the files and the xml product, but the version still lists 2.0.0 - is this on my end or with the plugin?

Also, what happens when you install this on a vbulletin website that already has tens of 1,000s of members? I assume I have 1,000s of members with last action dates well past due for a reminder email. How are these handled?

Hi, Installed and Working fine.

There is one problem however. In the emails that this product sends, it uses the hostname in the email header for "mailed-by" and also in the from field it appends the Host domain name. Can we change that to use our own domain name instead of the host's domain name?

Thanks

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm still learning about the product packaging. I can update the version on the product xml file however my original thinking was that since there was not an issue in the product xml I'd leave that as 2.0.0. The last fix was in the reminderemail.php.

Change the value in Number of users to process during each scheduled task

I should be able to do that. If you can you post an example header of what you are referring to and I'll look into it.

So should this number be equal or greater than the number of members a website has? Sorry, just trying to get a good understanding... :)

Sorry for the delay in responding. I haven't been able to post anything for around the last 24 hours to this site using any other browser other than safari.

To answer your question though.. basically it depends on how large of a load you want to put on your server when sending out emails. If you enter in 1000, it's going to process and send out 1000 emails during each scheduled task, providing there are that many inactive members.

thanks

You're very welcome :)

I have update the version number of the product XML file to 2.0.1. No need to import this unless you want the product to reflect the version change. I removed the old v2.0.1 zip file and uploaded a new one.

thx for the great hack :)

You're most welcome! :) Stay tuned - there's more to come. :)

If anyone wouldn't mind posting some samples of their reminder emails, I'll include them in a new release in addition to the default message text.

Just a heads up to everyone that has this mod installed. I'll be releasing another update very shortly (within the next several days or so) with some new features. A few features you can expect to see will be:

• Logging of inactive members that have been sent reminders
• Giving members to option to unsubscribe from receiving reminder emails either via the usercp "General Settings" screen, or by clicking on a link in a reminder email
• Limit reminder emails to MaxNumber sent
• View Inactivity Stats Reports, and Inactivity Log Reports via the admincp

excellent working..
increases online people..

thank you.

I'm not sure if this mod will do what I am wanting, so let me outline what I'm looking for below. =)

I want to be able to configure multiple conditions as to when these get sent out.

Basically for usergroups 1,2,3,4 I want to send out email template X if they have been inactive for Y Days.

For usergroups 5,6,7,8 I want to send out email template X if they have been inactive for Y Days.

These would ideally be on a CRON and happen without any manual intervention from me. I'd also like it make it so they CANNOT opt out as well. These are only sent to members (not registered users) in my case and some of what I am doing, they are signing up for anyway. So it's no worry. But having the option is what I'm looking for.

Anyway, thanks for any response you have time for! =)

Hey Trek, Thanks for your input on features. Unfortunately the addon does not have these features currently. I'll add your feature requests to my list. Give me some time and I will see what I can do to add them in.

That lastest update - 2.1.0 - is the folder 'admin' that's to be uploaded supposed to be 'admincp'?

Yes it is. I'll fix that and reupload the zip. Thank you.

hi talk virginia, i wonder of the mod working on my forum on every email i got it says the email address was invalid. Look Down

This email shows that the product is installed and working as it should be.


Emails sent to:
shawn.89 MrTbcbender kalvho Zeus DaSnitch Track & XCountry - BWS1 slugg1n ZeLL Hamsterkiller Uspeer


We tried to email the following users, but their email address was invalid:

I hope its working as it should be.

this means "there is no invalid email. everything works."

lol thx for the reply :) just want to make sure

gurler Thanks for clarifying that. I'm going to look at suppressing that last line unless there are actually failed emails. That should will eliminate the confusion. :)

The UPLOAD folder has ADMIN instead of ADMINCP

FRAK! Ok Thank you...

I just installed this mod, but I can't find the cron job in Scheduled Task Manager.

I received about a half dozen update notices on this hack today and I have yet to figure what has been done except from the first update notice.

There was a cron routine but it is no longer there since 2.1.0 release!

You're right.. Not sure how that got changed.. Anyway, I've updated the zip file and reuploaded. If you want to add the cron by hand, here is a screen shot of the settings:

Thanks for the quick fix, TalkVirginia!

Rated 5/5 and nominated :)

Edit: One more thing, the emails being sent out have no sender identified. Says it's been sent from (unknown sender)

Make sure you have an email address set for webmaster in vbulletin
Settings -> Options -> Site Name/URL/Contact Settings

I have webmaster@digi-tech.org set as email address, and the report emails / test emails I receive says "digi-tech forums - webmaster@digi-tech.org"

When I created an test account and set the user activity back 2 months and then rand the cron, that user received the reminder email from "(unknown sender)"

Can anyone confirm you are getting this mod to work in last activity mode?

I have mine set for 180 days and I have tested on a few users who have had no activity past the 180 days cut off. It just doesn't work, I get no emails to send.

If I choose last post activity mode the mod works fine.

I'm checking into these issues now and will see if I can reproduce them.

Archet,

Can you tell me if this happens every time you send out reminder emails or has it only happened one time? At the moment, I'm not able to reproduce this, however I will keep my eye on it.

Where you able to send reminder email out at least once to inactive users? The way it works is the first time reminder emails are sent out, each inactive user will get a timestamp for that reminder mail run. Each time the cron job runs after that it will use the number of days set in the field "How often should we send inactivity reminders". For example, if a user has been inactive for 180 days, this user would get a reminder. If you have 30 in the field mentioned above, this user would not receive another reminder for 30 days. If you want them to get reminders more frequently, then you would need to set this to a lower number. For instance, 7 days then they would get reminders, once a week.

It works the same way when sending reminders in lastpost mode.

I have only tried it once. Give me a couple of minutes and I will check and get back to you.

Edit: I'm having a hard time reproducing it as I can't get the cron to send out any emails even though I have set last activity/post of two test accounts back one and three months.

When I get the email reports sent from the same email address to admin, they show up with "Digi-Tech Forums" as sender, so I can only assume it's working as intended?

If not, I will give you a shout ;)