Hmmm i had to uninstall it before for some reason (can't recall) now installing it again on 4.1.4 hope everything works fine this time :)

Hi TalkVirgina!

That mod indeed undoubtedly is really useful. I just installed it a couple of days ago. This morning the script ran for the very first time. I limited the amount of mails to be sent to 200. However, 120 messages were bounced back with invalid addresses.

I am not familiar with common mail server setups and I definitely want to avoid the disaster described by Mary. So what is a safe amount of messages to send at once? Does it make any difference if I send out 1000 messages once a day or if I configure the cronjob to send out 250 messages four times a day? However, currently there are only 1800 users to be reminded, later it won't be more than 4 a day at maximum. Edit: Forget that, found another interesting article: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1533552

I just read that you are working on a bounce detector. However, the last two log columns (valid email, bounced) are all green even though 120 of 200 messages bounced back. What exactly are the values in those columns meant to express at that stage?

One more simple feature request: It would be good to see if users returned after they have received a reminder message. Just join the user-table to the log and show the lastactivity value in the log table. maybe red for not returned and green for returned, depending if the lastactivity timestamp is larger or smaller than the one the message was sent at.

Further, users obviously have to have the modify-cronjobs-admin-privilege to access the log. why is that? Is that restriction necessary? Isn't there a more suitable privilege?

The idea of creating a bounce manager plugin is great as long as it handles not only mail sent by this plugin but by the forum itself, like pm notifications or birthday greetings. The user's mail address should be removed from the user table if it is discovered to be invalid, the user should receive a pm that his address is invalid. Maybe those users can even be moved to another usergroup as long as they have not entered and verified a valid address - and moved back to the original one after they have a valid address again... Well, I'm dreaming but maybe you can make this dream come true?

However it really is a great mod, thanks you invested so much time for development and support here, you're doing a great job!

Aileron,

I should have more time to reply to your post this weekend. Sorry. Things have been very busy.

Jim

Hello, What numbers do I put in "Number of Emails to Send Reminder Per Batch" to make it work properly?

Start with 10 and see how that goes through. It you don't see any bounce backs then increment it by 10 or whatever number you feel comfortable with.

thank you !

I've got my computer back up and running... however it looks like I may have lost a ton of data on my raid drives. :( I'll most-likely be spending the weekend trying to figure out how to recover from that. Just an FYI.. will keep ya posted.

Oh btw, the good news is that I didn't lose any of the work I did on this addon. All versions were backed up on my development server. lol :D

The unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails that this mod sends out, seems to link people to a "smilies" page.... I took a few of the links from member's emails and try them myself and, indeed, it brought up a page about smilies on our forums.

How can we get properly working unsubscribe links?

Otherwise than that, this mod is AWESOME!!! :)

Can you post the link?