It will work on any 3.8.x

Just wanted to say thanks for a great mod :) Installed without a hitch and got it setup the way I needed. A must-have for any busy forum!

Paul, thanks very much for a welldone job

I installed it and it work 100%

Best Regards

Please forgive me if this has been answered already, I did search lol

I know we can view the quickstats in the admin as to how many emails are in the queue, is there a place we can view the actual emails that are queued? Like a list?

No, there isnt.

That's a shame lol thanx though :)

I am having an issue that maybe someone else has ran into or can help me with. I use the following newsletter https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=190082 (paid version) and have for years and it has worked fine, I send it monthly to members.

I did an uninstall of the Paul's cron based email mod for reasons which are not important. With that being said I have reinstalled the cron based email mod and put the settings back to what I thought they were in vb email settings, see attachments. i also use Hostgator which allows 500 emails per hour and with the email cron job never had an issue with my host.

Now, after reinstalling the email cron job mod and go to send the newsletter it says it sends about 452 which it should be sending about 3000+. Once it hits 452 it just stops, no error messages, no bounce backs etc. I just can't figure it out, are my settings wrong? did I miss something.

I can tell you this, I upgraded my bulletin from 3.8.4 to 3.8.7 a few months ago.

What I did come to find last night is that I forgot to update step 2 template change:
Step 2.

In includes/functions.php

find ;

exec_mail_queue();

change to ;

// exec_mail_queue(); // Paul M - Cron Mail Queue Hack //

I went in and did the edit, reinstalled the product.xml and chose overwrite, all other setting were not touched or changed. all edits completed as directed. any help would be appreciated.

thanks in advance.

Tom

I have removed this system, it conflicts with something else and slows down, posting and reply on my site, the only thing I can thing of is perhaps Tapatalk.

This cannot slow down posting or replying, there is simply no connection between the two.

Well,
When quoting or replying to a post, it "hung" for seconds, 10 seconds or more at times. I turned off all mods and had no issue with "hanging." Then I turned 4 - 5 mods off at a time trying to find the culprit.

When I got to this mod and disabled it, replies and quotes worked flawless. Although this mod no longer works for me (I wish it did) see a few posts above, I really have no use for it and just deleted it anyway, but I did try enabling it and disabling it to be sure this was in fact the problem - it was this mod, no question.

A lot of different mods have come about over the last few years and this mod, clearly has not had any real updates or changes to keep it up to date and working properly, so with that being said, my opinion is it is conflicting with another mod, perhaps a newer mod of sorts that could conflict with this one, and my guess is Tapatalk - particularly the 'push' feature in Tapatalk, not sure how or why, but it is my guess.

The old version of this mod before your last change worked flawless for me though. It's a shame, this was a great tool for forum owners who utilize news letters or large email distribution with limits in how many emails they can send per hour due to hosting limits.

Thanks for the reply though.

p.s. If you could so kindly supply me with the old .php file and .xml plugin - I would gladly take it back, install it, and hopefully begin sending my newsletters again. Honestly, I'm no coder, so i can't tell you why, I just know before I update the 3.8 version of this mod, it no longer worked for me. Only change on my end was upgrading to 3.8.7 from 3.8.4 - I did update the files on my server as well as the .php and new .xml plugin.

I upgraded to vBulletin 3.8.7 Patch Level 3 and I'm unable to make changes to the functions.php file, commenting out // exec_mail_queue();

Every time I do that my forum goes blank and to fix it I have to upload the original 3.8.7 file.. any ideas? It worked fine for 3.8.3 but it was time to upgrade.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.. I'd be happy to pay for your assistance Paul. Send me a PM, I'll give you $50 PayPal if you help me fix the issue.

Paul,

I'm running vBulletin v3.8.7PL3. I set-up your e-mailing modification a couple of days ago. I then tried validating that it works properly (i.e., early this morning just after 12am EST); which [apparently] it did not. :(

I retraced the steps in terms of the install instructions:

1) See Screenshot # 1 (change code in admin/email.php file)
2) See Screenshot # 2 (just a note to indicate that there seems to be another instance of similar (but not exact code) for item # 1/screenshot #1).
2) See Screenshot # 3 (change code in includes/functions.php)
3) See Screenshot # 4 (upload mailqueue.php to /includes/cron)
4) See Screenshot # 5 hack by Antivirus is noted on the Plugins & Products Page on my Admin CP
5) See Screenshot # 6 cron-based e-mail hack is noted on the Plugins & Products Page on my Admin CP

Problem #1: when I go into my ADMIN CP, there is nothing in regards to a "Mailqueue Quick Stats" box as indicated by screenshot #7. You had also indicated that the only way that the Mailqueue Quick Stats box would not show up is if the Use Mailqueue System wasn't checked YES. As you can see from Screenshot # 9, it is checked YES. I also went back and checked my own vB Plug-In & Products System section to see if any clues might be there. In screenshot #8, there appears to be missing a check mark. Could this be why it's not showing the Mailqueue Quick Stats box on the Admin CP page?

Update: I checked the box and it's still not working.

Problem # 2: I checked with my web host this afternoon around 3pm EST and they informed me that only 20 e-mails went out over the last 24 hours. This indicates that the e-mail cron job did not work because the e-mail function indicated that I sent out 1,369 messages in batches of 8 (or thought I did). Screenshot #9 indicates my settings in vB E-Mail Options.

Please help.

Bob

Hi Mr.Paul
It's not work with me in 3.8.7 pal2
But when I don't put the //
in step 2 it's work with me and Email sent

includes/functions.php
exec_mail_queue();

Are you saying that you changed the code from this:

// exec_mail_queue(); // Paul M - Cron Mail Queue Hack //

To this:

exec_mail_queue(); // Paul M - Cron Mail Queue Hack //

...and it worked?

That is simply bypassing the mod.

Please make it for vB 4.2. Thanks.

I have to send a email to about 4100 users and my server limits us to 500 emails per hour. what settings do I have to set on your mod and anywhere else, in the cron jobs, to send out 499 emails every hour? I cant seem to figure it out.

thank you paul

Remember that by default, it runs every 10 minutes, so 6 times an hour.

500 / 6 = 83, so set the batch size to 80 and you will be fine (6 x 80 = 480 / Hr).

Paul,

I'd really like to use your mod here but I haven't heard back from you. Can you help me get this working and address my issue in post # 292 and #295?

Thanks.

Bob

ya I set
Number of Emails to Send Per Batch to 80. so that was right

From what I have read, you will need someone to spend time checking your actually installation, there is nothing obviously wrong in your posts.

Im afraid I simply do not have the time to do that atm.

paul it has taken days to send these emails....and there is still 1000 remaining. am I missing something?

Maybe you dont have enough traffic to trigger the cron system every 10 minutes.

Other than that, no idea really, many things could affect it.

Working in 3.8.8.

[s]When making the file revisions, I could not find the string: exec_mail_queue(); (within includes/functions.php)[/s]

Nevermind, as when I FTP'd my functions.php file the connection stalled and I did not get the entire file.(i.e. just 164kb out of 177kb) Once I discovered that and re-downloaded the file, I found the string I needed to edit then!