I think that this has been a long-ignored feature that was overlooked with good intentions by Jelsoft. Implementing something like this on somethingawful.com or any big board would easily crash their email servers.

For smaller communities that don't aspire to that size, it isn't an issue.

Agreed. Small membership communities could *especially* use this, because forum activity is sometimes slow, so users don't visit... which perpetuates the cycle.

It's been overlooked too long. It's one area where other forum implementations are actually better than vBulletin, and that should be corrected.

For now I am paying for the commercial version of CommBull and plan to send out a bulletin/newsletter with the latest threads. But it sure would be a lot nicer if we could set default subscriptions...

I hadn't come across CommBull, so thanks for this.

Before I commit to purchasing this though, can you tell me if it supports some sort of automation or do you need to manually specify that you want to create a newsletter etc and define the thread date ranges every time?

I am really looking for a 'set it and forget it solution' where a summary will be sent to everyone at a set interval.

Thanks.

The latest commercial version has a cron job you can set for whatever interval you want. I haven't tested it long enough, but the feature list promises it's a "set it and forget it" type of thing.

bumpity bump. Any news?

I'm down to:

Bug with usergroup posting permissions
Conflicts with thread subscription and forum subscription
Better interface to add/remove/modify forum subscriptions

Then it'll be ready for beta :)

Thats very good news. Can not wait to see this once its done.. Thanks keep up the good work

Our forum also would greatly benefit if the Admin could simply take a list of current users and

1. switch their current forum subscriptions to Instant Email. (we've installed the mod, and it works well.)

2. easily subcribe current users to all (or some, as dictated by the Admin) forums to receive Instant Email Notification

3 And if there was a way for new users to automatically be defaulted to Instant Email Notification for all (or some, as dictated by the Admin) forums.

Has anyone fully, or partly, solved these yet?

Thanks.

Bob B

I too would love to have a hack to use vbulleting exaxtly like a mailing list!

A user subscribes to a forum and gets all the content of each new posting & get delivered instantly, no more clicking on a link to be able to get another email...

So please keep up the work!

The reply by e-mail features is available discus 4 pro at discusware.com. So there must be also a working solution possible for vB...

Does the instant email mod work with VBULLETIN 3.6.7 PL1 ?

Thanks.

Bob B