OK, I know now ;)

No. It should have been done automatically with the product import.

I just installed and did a manual test. It seems to be working properly, but the email that was sent to my test account went into my spam mailbox. I'm sure there are a lot of variables to this stuff, but is there anything that can be done to minimize the chances of these emails being treated as spam?

Thanks,

Andrew

I can confirm raven3d's issue. I have had to disable the cron because the product sent out the entire inactive list at the same time (well it took about 4 hours for it to get through the 500 or so Inactive members) - verified via the cron log.

My mail batch is set up to 10 emails at a time and the log is showing the emails from the hack going out one right after the other.

I attached the first three pages of the cron log -- there are over20 more pages following these with mail going out one right after the other.


I hope this issue can be resolved as it can be a very beneficial tool to the board.

Same here, i tried this hack and it sent all the emails at once.
My host does not allow hundreds of emails at once so bounced them to my catch all.

I assume that those of you reporting this issue are using version 1.10 or version 1.11.

I strongly recommend that you uninstall that version and install version 1.09 instead.

According to the developer's notes above:

"Update 1.1.0 - Changed the way that emails are sent out by adding the emails to vbulletin's mail queue"

So isn't this working properly? Any comments from the developer?

I've installed this, but it's currently set up for testing with the admin group only. I have over 400 inactive members, so I want to make sure it's working properly before I use it with registered members.

Thanks,

Andrew

Prior to version 1.10, emails were sent out in batches with a configurable batch size using a cron job. Starting with version 1.10, all emails were added to the vBulletin mail queue. I think with a mod like this, that's a mistake, and certainly it seems to have caused a number of problems for different forum installations - that's why version 1.09 is still available for download. The author, Chris, is working on the bugs in 1.11 as he gets time but my advice is to consider version 1.10 and 1.11 as Beta versions, with 1.09 as the latest stable release.

i can understand that emails will be sent out regular with the latest version, and tbh i think 1.09 is the better option.

i really wish i had more time to work on this, and when i do ill start from 1.09 and scrap later versions.

I have now installed v1.09 and it's working great. :up: