I believe if you're using version 1.11, it doesn't actually send all those 400 emails out at once. Rather, it adds them to the vBulletin mail queue.

Chris, please correct me if I'm wrong (I'm actually still using 1.09 myself).

coule you please tell me where the report is? thanx ..great hack meanwhile :D

Gosh I hope so but when I look at the task report, it shows them all going out at the same time.

I couldn't get ver1.09 to work at all which is why I installed the 1.11. Right now I have disabled the cron pending confirmation of whether or not the product uses the vb mail queue.

I don't know about v1.11, but my v1.09 sent out 150 emails over a few days at 10 at a time. I know a lot of folks received them because my logins went up 50% or more. I do know that the test one I sent to a Hotmail account never arrived, but I wonder if that's a filtering thing (blocking?) being done by MSN?

Regards,
Doug

Using ver1.09 ---- I moved one of my old test member names into a test group--- it hadn't accessed the forums for 8 months.

I never got the email nor did the report identify that the email was ever sent. That's why I tried the 1.11. I am crossing my fingers that 400 emails didn't go out at once. I have a large community forum for a small city and 99% of my members live in this community and use one of three IP providers. That is why I am really worried about the blacklisting ---- Can you imagine one or more of these providers received 200 emails from one source in a span of 5 to 10 minutes? Ouch.... I am crossing my fingers that you are right about it using the vb mail queue. If not, I could be toast with the batch that went out last evening.

Great hack!

Is it possible to change the language of the e-mail automatically according to the default language wich a user has set?

any updates to the issue with the quantity being sent out? I am afraid to send some as well, dont want to get blacklisted!

Once there is clarification on the issue I will Install it!!

I am waiting for the response as well... I have the ver1.11 installed (couldn't get v1.09 to work) but I disabled the auto cron so that it won't send any emails until I know for sure about the number of emails being sent at one time.

I will say that out of the 400+ that ver 1.11 said it sent --- I haven't received one single bounced email which I think is very unusual. I am wondering if the emails were sent at all even though the log states they were. I don't know how to test this any other way than to use my test account that hasn't been accessed for over 6 months. I never got an email for that account either.

I've been playing with your mod (v1.11) and it is very useful, but it needs a bit of tweaking. There is a real problem where the from field is not being generated correctly. I initially thought it must be something to do with the email address in vboptions, but it isn't.

I've noticed that the resultant email "from field" can end up as various things, but generally either "bbtiltle <bbtitle>" or bbtitle<servername>. This can lead to the email being rejected by some mail servers (as the sent email does not have a correct email from header, or a domain indicated and no @).

The problem is due to the way vbmail has been used in remindermail.php. The final email from field is not generated by: (line50)
Instead it is from the $from: (line 69)
So all it was generating was a from based on bbtitle. One way to correctly generate a from field containing the board's email is to change $from to use 'webmasteremail': (line 69)

A similar problem can be seen in the reminder report produced (line 79), but this time multiple from email headers are created on the report - one from $from and another from $uheaders.

Yes it adds it to the vbulletin mail queue.
sorry, i;ve got a killer headache right now so im not able to reply to everything.