I don't know where to begin...blogtorank has got to be the most kind, generous, helpful person I've yet to meet on the internet. He's offered his valuable time to help me out and get this running.

Let's see...I've had to move servers b/c it was poorly configured which is why we couldn't get the script running properly. Before we moved though, blog had put in around 32 hours to go through my server and see where the problems were and to see if he could fix them. Sadly, the server was just straight effed that there was nothing we could do but move.

I asked for him to help me get my new servers properly configured and secured (for a fee of course ;) happy to pay for great help anytime). He's been helping configure, troubleshoot, find bugs, and get everything running as smoothly as possible...STILL to this minute. He put in a full 24 hours...that's right, no sleep yesterday, to help me get the server up and running. We got it up and everything was running smoothly until my site received a bunch of SYN attacks on our database server.

At this moment, he's STILL helping me out and I just wanted to let everyone know how much of a help this guy is! I've never seen such dedication! So all in all...he's prolly put in 60+ hours into help me and my site and on top of that, he's been able to release fixes to his mods that had security vulns.

Amazing work! Hats off to my man blogtorank. I hope to see this on one of your blogs as a testimonial to customer support and satisfaction :D

I think there is a problem with the SQL in the plugin to generate the HTML/Text profile:

The 'radio' value above is inserted into the 9th field, but this value should be in the 8th field ('type'). This messes up the rest of the query and the profile is not created properly.

My profile field was all over the place but I managed to sort it out. This is version 1.2.3 FULL too.

I dropped an email at BTR, with an enquiry for the full version. I was wondering if you might have gotten it? :)

Will look into your issue there Dave, thanks for reporting that.

Whereabouts? Did you use the contact form? Wherefore the sales there will answer yours in the order received, if you have any questions feel free to ask here if you would like and I'll see if we (not sales) can help you out. :)

This looks absolutely great, and I look forward to start using it.

I was wondering and may have missed this, but is there a simple way to send out test emails to only one emailadres, user or a single usergroup before sending it to the complete userbase? May be useful to evaluate whether variables are parsed correctly and whether html is rendered as expected in different email clients.

Great work!

Bought it! :D

Full Version + Installation!

I hope I'm back as satisfied client ;)

yeah the contact form. no one got back to me. i was wondering if your full version actually lets us configure a pre-set amount of outbound emails per hour. my server can only do 300 emails per hr, and this is becoming quite an issue for me.

Yes this will send out per the USERGROUP that you choose to test with, also, you will be able to select all, we kept it per what the users that requested it this way, where you can choose All or a specific group to send to.

On the rendering of the htmls do this as a test:

Choose that you are allowed HTML e-mails as a "New user" however on your end make it inside your e-mail client to NOT accept html...

Send out all e-mails to this new user both in text and html, which you will see this is sent.

Now after the send, take a look inside your inbox and remember that you shouldn't receive e-mails as HTML, open this e-mail... If you see it as text this means that our system served you with a text e-mail so it doesn't come out garbled and looking trashy ;)

You should be, check your inbox for a welcome email? :D

We have it where you can send out 25 emails per x amount of time:

http://www.blogtorank.com/vbmailer-v...in-mailer.html

See the 2nd to the top screenshot for this setting. So you do the calcs of this to figure out how many seconds you need in between sends of groups of 25's Hope this helps!

Yeah well still going at it, but this had to been one of the best compliments EVER received here by us. We greatly appreciate this tremendously! Our biggest thanks for such a great feedback!!!!!

I'm stil trying to get this working properly, I also have a few questions about how this plugin works. At the end of each email message it says:

"You can unsubscribe at any time by visiting the forums where this was sent from and requesting not to receive emails from administrators any more."

Is this text hard-coded in the PHP files? I couldn't find it in the phrases. If so can you please add an option to change or customise this - I already have a more user-friendly notice on the bottom of my emails and I don't want this on there.

Secondly, what happens to a mailing if it gets stuck or times out in the middle somewhere? Our current mailer solution (not in VB) allows us to continue mailing from the point that it timed out, so we can ensure no users get repeat emails. Our test mailings in 'Review Campaigns' have some failed emails (with valid addresses though) - do subsequent crons try to send these failed emails or is that it?

Also, it would be nice if the campaign stats kept track of how many bounces there were :).

sweet as. once i get off work, i am gonna get home and purchase this :D

The failed emails won't try to go out again. When an email fails, the user is put to a "bounce list" so that they don't receive emails again. In the FULL edition, that user will receive a PM saying they need to update their email.

That's not what's happening on my full version. I set up a campaign with 3 emails, 1 of which was known to be non-existent. All 3 emails were sent - but the bounce was returned and the PMs sent to admin and the user. All 3 emails are listed as sent in the campaign though.

Are you getting the bounced email in your inbox? Maybe you are not receiving a bounced email or vbmailer isn't logging in and catching it, therefore it thinks it was sent out properly.

No - I'm using a POP account created especially for this purpose. vbMailer is logging in and finding the bounced mail ok, and sending the PMs.

Support are looking into my install as there are more important issues than this causing me grief at the moment :(.

Yes we are finding that doing a run on your forums there it's taking forever to login to your POP accounts for some apparent reason or another, as said we would better diagnose this if we had full access to this server. We are trying our hardest on this and trying to diagnose this issue that you are having and can't seem to pinpoint it with these issues.

One forums runs with all of these Mods as noted smoothly:

Members: 42,637

Then to note their php.ini:

So we are trying to figure out what is what here vs their forums and your forums, we just cant run all the tests due to restrictions of your sysadmin. We are still comparing the differences because you guys use the same server type if I am correct...

Only thing we are pretty concerned about is this:

eAccelerator

Don't give up, because we are not :)

I'm concerned about these errors that are all through the log files:

I think this is related to the script more than the server.

I'm not sure if this could be easily integrated, but there's a mod for inactive users, to where it sends out emails every day to people who've been inactive for x many days (here)...I thought it might be nice to have it along side this mod so that you can review the campaigns, see who's receiving emails and who's not. And for those that we can get in contact with at all, I guess we could move them to an inactive usergroup :P

It's just a thought, I can deal with having 2 separate mods :)

i am curious... why does mine not run? i use sendmail, and i keep thinking it might be the scheduled tasks, though i might be wrong.

#-Campaigns-------------------#
2: Checking 'StoriesMania Weekly Newsletter 143'
2: Do not run yet

#-Autoresponders---------------#

#-Bounces---------------------#
Could not login with

Done

No idea why it doesn't run, but as I understand it you can only check bounced addresses if you use smtp for sending.

v1.5 with a request you made will be coming and also, we will be releasing an upgrade to the respect to the issue you faced too, we have narrowed it down!

If you are using just sendmail, then why do you have login information for smtp filled in?

Very good idea to add-in, it falls within the e-mailing feature :) for sure! Notated for a future release here, as we do want to make an all-in-one system so you don't have to install 50 hacks in respect to one core element of e-mailing. Thanks for the suggestion.

None of that filled in. Only the link tracking turned on. :)

Well then it's all within your configuration of when you are sending and the times you have on your boards, and also as the error says, which we overlooked telling you: All in all this means: "It's not time to send the campaign."

yeah i kinda figured it was in the config. could it be the scheduled tasks? i am still not too sure how to configure that one.

Good - I hope it improves the situation.

The timezone issue in the date needs to be fixed as it is giving mail meesages a high Spam Assassin score (timezone is invalid). Our server is in a .5 timezone so I don't know if that is part of the problem or not.

There also seems to be an issue with sending plain text emails and receiving them as text on Outlook Express. Line breaks are not included, either when typing direct into the text area or when pasting text from a text editor. I have tested this with vbMailer on Mac and PC and it occurs on both.

Here you go:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...ed_tasks_intro

Also, inside the task itself you'll see question marks for "Admin Help"

Timezone is all setup on your mail server, admincp, the usercp. It sends out in respect to what you have configured there, it's not we modify the headers, it's your mail server itself.

Why not post a few examples here in a text file you are sending and I'll test it out on ours and use "OUTLOOK Express" normally your e-mail client is the issue on that on how things are displayed. Even look at the above example under our description of this mod to see a "plain text" and the outcome as "plain text"

Another note, when settings for your "Spamassassin" You need to think about being conservative if you are running a online business because if you set it too hard that's to block out spam then the Bayes will be all thrown off as it learns these e-mails, if you are "testing" then you need to disable the spamassassin all together while "TESTING." Because we tested on yours with Subjects: lsjasfjsdhfsd and it came back as spam as you reported... You should see more on how to configure the Spamassassin to be more conservative here:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/...AskedQuestions

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/...gFpsForSenders

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/...resAreAssigned

Your PHP mailer distribution has a bug in it:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/inde...31&atid=385707

I would have made the change myself but you guys have encrypted the PHP mailer class in your script package (it's open source...what's up with that?).


Nothing too complex - I typed in 3 lines separated with linefeeds and sent to a range of email clients, Outlook Express didn't display it correctly. I tested using our old mailer and this doesn't happen.

yup. checked that. but apparently it doesnt work out as i tried. is it possible that u might be able to guide me through this?

What's up with what? Someone being a human being and that being a mistake there on obfuscation time (With your test script that we uploaded last night in and around 2-3:00AM). On v1.5 we did make sure the open source isn't obfuscated (All in all reality you can change modify the scripts or products that are within their TERMS)

To patch that if you like on 1/2 hour timezones feel free here to doing so until we factor that into our upcoming version to see (IF) any conflicts may occur for others.

I do not quite understand your issue. The email not sending and the task not running are two different issues. You posted your task output in a previous post, and I see that it says:

To extend this a little bit for you, it means the email is scheduled to run after the current time. So if this is the issue, make sure you scheduled the email for the correct time.

If your task isn't running automatically, however, you should check the following:

In other words, it all works assuming you have traffic on your board. If no one visits your site, the task won't run.

You may also want to check your footer template, as if it's been modified, this can cause trouble if the '$cronimage' code is removed.

• Fixed a hanging process within the Send E-Mail by the RUN Now being processed
• PER REQUEST: Added the Signature Line to be manually modified within the settings of LITE and FULL version
• Update to the nl2br to fix broken issues with Outlook Express of receiving text e-mails, because Microsoft decided to NOT respect the \r\n format, so it's known as the nl2br
  Code:

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  \r\n = "<br>"

  ---

• Few other snags cleaned up to put this to v1.5.

See the attached screenshot for the FULL version of vbMailer's settings that is all done from the back-end rather than manually modd'n the config file. :)

This should be fixed within v1.5 now due to the Microsoft Outlook Express using crlf and and not the \n\r which now we have added the code to help alleviate this. Do update us here when you have time.

I am utterly confused. I tried earlier on by setting the time in the "Compose Email" portion. Then I went to the Scheduled Tasks, and arranged the time to fit the one in "Compose Email". Clicked "Run Now", and it sent. Then I tried with all my registered users, and nothing happens. How does this exactly work?

Also, I read that last night already, in a bid to solve my problem. Apparently nothing turns up.

It sends you say, then you tried to send to your registered users and nothing happens, I'm utterly confused now :| What bid? Do you have the FULL version? If so and if you have a issue, do create a support ticket on that with all of your login information via SSH / FTP, and make us a superadmin to the forums.

If this is a LITE issue, then what one are you referencing? If it's about the Scheduled tasks, what can we do there? Inkybro posted too you how that works...

Do let me know because we don't need to be confused too :erm:

sorry. i meant it didn't send. crap. that was really a bad typo. and it's the full version. setting up a ticket now on your end.

Do you have the 1.5 update?

Create a ticket and give us superadmin and we can upgrade it for you.