It was never about eliminating bounces from any type of bounce generated by the forum - it was catching a specific type of bounced email generated by a specific mail server software such as the one found in cPanel/WHM based servers.

And yes it does :)


Fillip

Just so I'm sure I understand -- forum is setup on a cpanel/whm server... If the forum sends out an email that generates a bounce from say a yahoo, gmail or hotmail address, this program will then modify the forum account that generated the bounced email: ex: removing subscriptions and notifying member via PM that their email address needs to be updated -- correct? (EXTREMELY USEFUL)

OR does the email receiving server have to also be a cpanel/WHM server (in which case this would be fairly useless).

Correct :)


Fillip

send email HTML ??

Yes, this mod supports email sending with HTML :)


Fillip

vBMail v1.1.9
Feature: Improved logging details for Control Panel actions
Change: Changed the Branding display method to inject itself into the copyright footer (underneath vBulletin copyright) instead of the page footer.
Change: Changed the Branding Free Key to a more secure key.

Fillip

with images and links ?

how and where to send this email options HTML ??

Nice Mod except all the from addresses are username@com. Which of course sends it into spam folder if your lucky, get's your IP spam flagged if your not lucky. Any ideas?

I was tired when I wrote the above. Let me give more detail.

Everywhere in the app the sender email address is displayed properly. But in the actual email received the domain is missing from the header of the email.

So instead of it showing the sender as username@mysite.com it shows it as username@com with the domain and trailing period removed. This will flag your emails as spam and either send them into a spam folder or most likely get you listed. Either outcome is undesirable but the latter is death to a forum.

Going over the header fully reveals that it is removing the domain from some sender and some receiver tags

Delivered-To: Domain present
Return-Path: Domain removed
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of bounce@com designates xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as permitted sender) client-ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; (this might send the bounce to google.com?

To: removed
From: removed
Sender: removed

Other emails I looked at from other sources including vbulletin default emails do not have this problem.

I hope this helps

I should add that the above is a gmail header. I can't view it in other headers since they never get through. Google is being nice because some of the info is there and they are using their own algorithm and not some really strict service like cloudmark.

It's automatic :)

Check the email address you've entered as From Email in the mailing list configuration.


Fillip

vBMail v1.1.10
Fix: Fixed an issue that could cause a vBulletin query to error out in some circumstances

Fillip

Update

Hotfix: PHP 5.4 Compatibility fixes


This does not guarantee the mod is error free on PHP 5.4, but it will take care of the reported errors. Thank you all for your reports :)



Fillip

I purchased this product and when I did a mailout it truncated all 3 links in the email and turned them all in to 404 errors which of course defeated the purpose of the email :)

Anyone had this problem ?

What VB version do you have?

I am thinking of using this.

David

Fillip, are you monitoring this thread?

Also, I attempted to register at your VB Forum and your system failed to send me an activation email. As a potential customer, I need to have a reliable means of communicating with you. Your forum contact link does not exist either.

David

We have had no similar reports of this happening, please try disabling all other addons.

Not as closely as threads at our site.

What is your email provider?

Also, if by "forum contact link" you mean the "Contact Us" link then it does indeed exist :)


Fillip

vBMail v1.2.0
Feature: You can now manually prune bounced messages via the Bounced Mail List
(Pro) Feature: The SMTP settings in vBulletin can be overridden on a per-mailinglist basis

Fillip

Hi, I've a huge problem with bounced mails. Now I'm in the blacklist for spam :( Is this mod the solution to bouncing email? I've thousand of these:

This mod will indeed handle those kind of emails :)

You don't have to use the Mailing List component in order to take advantage of bounced mail handling either :)


Fillip

Installed :)

Fillip,

this is great mod. No need to care about bounced eMails anymore!
But may I make 2 suggestions?

On my forums I have several people which just ignore to update their eMail-adresses. Shouldn?t bother me. But it does. Couldn?t you add an option to change the owner of a bounced mail to the usergroup 3? So they would be forced to put in a valid adress instead of their bounced ones.

I don?t make use of the mailing lists. There is just no use on my forums for them and I?ve only installed vbMail for having that neat little bouncehandling ;)
I?ve noticed that there are two new buttons in the usercp?s, related to the mailing lists and people are asking me, what the heck this should be and I have to say nothing you should care about. Guess I?m not the only one with that. May be you could make the appearance in the usercp?s optional?

But, all in all, was a long time until somebody came up with a functional bouncehandler like this. Kudos, Fillip.

Feature requests are best posted @ our forum (http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php) in the support forum for this mod, so that they're not lost to the mists of time here on vB.org :)



Fillip

Oh lord, another forum I have to register for? Mmpf...nah. I?m on so many forums, I could never visit them all in a days - and you are not sooo old, that you couldn?t remember this little feature request.
;)

But - as a little reminder, Fillip, ...I mean, just in case.. :
the two fields in the usercp are also visible in the profile tab "about me"

Erm..ehh..sorry, have to go :D

Please understand that at the time of writing, we have 106 releases here at vBulletin.org.

I don't think it would be reasonable to expect us to be able to keep track of multiple feature requests for 106 releases, especially considering it's likely to be several weeks, if not months, until we next release an update for vBMail.

My fridge is also not big enough to contain that many magnets - the downsides of being a bachelor :)

For this reason, we request that people post feature requests on our forum, as we have an issue tracking mod (that we released on vB.org as DragonByte vBForms) that will remember the threads and organise them by each release, so that we can quickly see what feature requests are outstanding.

Personally, I don't believe this is an unreasonable request. However, if you do, then I can absolutely respect that - but please do not expect your feature request to be taken into consideration as a result.

Thank you for your understanding :)


Fillip

Actually, you don't have to register anywhere.

But, you want something for free and you have a hard time registering (which is free and actually takes no more than a minute to do) on a forum? Well, it looks like you don't care about this feature request at all.

Which, of course, is completely fine.

May be my fault - but has the ironic part between the lines in my post above become some kind of lost in translation? Should be a joke, nothing more.

edit: I'm an idiot -- apparently having the php_imap extension enabled would help *facepalm* :lol:

Do I have to create a mailing list to have the bounce emails and other options to work? Can I not do a mailing list and just send out a mass email using the vb default mass email section and the bounce emails mod will still work?

No, you can use the bounce management aspects of the mod without setting up a mailing list :)


Fillip

Is there a way to delete test emails I sent while configuring it?


Thank you :)

vBMail v2.0.0 Beta 1

Subscription Log

• Tracks every subscription/unsubscription event across all areas of vBMail
• Records every piece of data available regarding any event
• Browsable via the AdminCP

Maintenance: Mass Unsubscribe

• Unsubscribe any combination of usergroup(s) from any combination of mailing list(s) in very few clicks
• Compatible with the Subscription Log
• Accessible under the DBTech - vBMail AdminCP menu group

(Pro) Require Subscription Confirmation

• Requires users to click a confirmation link before they are fully subscribed to a mailing list
• Controlled via vBulletin Options
• Defaults to off

Fillip

Not at this time, sorry :(


Fillip

vBMail v2.0.0 Beta 2

Subscription Feedback

• Asks for feedback after an Unsubscribe link has been clicked
• Pre-determined feedback items, as well as a free-form text field
• Emails feedback to "Webmaster Email" address

Fillip

vBMail v2.0.0 Gold

New Features:

Subscription Feedback

• Feedback reasons can now be customised
• Accessible via a new AdminCP area
• Translatable via the Phrase Manager
• (Pro) Add/Delete feedback reasons

Fillip

vBMail v2.1.0

New Features:

Mailing List History

• Delete emails from history
• Accessible to managers and mailing list owners

(Pro) Inactive User Reminders

• Turn the system on/off
• Include specific usergroups
• Inactivity Threshold (Days)
• Inactivity Metric (Last Visit, Last Activity or Last Post)
• How many emails to send per user in total

Fillip

I just installed this mod, but I need help. Maybe I just don't understand how it's supposed to work. Problem: I have a test user which is set up with as a regular user but also belonging to a special test user group called "Special Test." I set up a mailing list and set that user group to "Default Subscribed" However, when I click on "View Subscribed Users" in the Mailing List Manager, that user in that test group does NOT show up, nor does he get mail when I send mail from the meal list. However, when I look at the Subscription Log, I see that user has :Subscribed" but under "Mailing List" it says "N/A". So when I select a user group to be "Default Subscribed" in a mailing list, it seems to give them a subscribed status, but not subscribed to any list. What am I missing, or is this a bug?

Hi Filip,

we were wondering, why our newsletter only reachs 7% of our users for quite some time now. Today I came across the field dbtech_vbmail_bounceflag in the vbuser table and wondered, why that field was empty for most users:https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/12/8.png

Q1: Could this be the reason, that we can?t reach most of our users anymore? The timeframe since this occurs would fit with the installation date of vbMail and the bounce handling.

Q2: Would updating that field with 0 unflag all users?

(And before I break something: - is this the correct query to update the field with 0 ?)