Newsletter (Forum Activity)
 

Sorry no more free time.........


1.- What's this?

With this AddOn you can sends Newsletters to your Members, informing then for the latest activity in your forums.

2.- Features

• Custom Header/Footer
• CSS file to change the look and feel of the newsletter
• Add a Custom Greeting
• Mark a Post as Important to include the full text of this post in the Newsletter
• Latest News/Announcements
• Latest Sticky Threads
• Latest Popular Threads (most replies)
• Latest Threads
• Include a sidebar (PRO version)
  • Member Info (even with the amount of the unread emails (PRO version)

• • Special Member (Give a userid to promote a user) (PRO version)
  • Top Members (PRO version)
  • New Members (PRO version)
• Schedule One-time Newsletters
• Schedule Reccurings Newsletters (PRO version)
• Preview Newsletter (Test email)
• Add Advertisments to Newsletters (PRO version)
• Exclude Advertisments from specific Usergroup(s) (PRO version)
• Bounces Emails
• Blacklist Emails
• Relay Emails (Send a message even from your mobile) (PRO version)
• Newsletter Archives (PRO version)
• Send Emails using Mail() function
• Send Emails using Sendmail (PRO version)
• Send Emails using SMTP (PRO version)

3.- Installation

• Upload all files from the upload folder to your vB directory
• Import product-newsletter.xm
• Set the General Settings
• Set the Mailserver settings
• Set Newsletter Options
• Schedule a Newsletter and test it.

4.- Copyright

• All outgoing newsletters are having a copyright link in the footer. You're not allowing to remove this line (The PRO version is without this copyright line).

5.- Important Notes

1. You need to set a dedicated email address for bounce emails (from email) which you'll never access with any mail client. Doing it, you'll download the emails, and thus, they'll never preceed from the system.
2. Most cheap GoDaddy hosting plans are not having the Mail() function enabled. If this you, sorry but this mod will not works in your site.

Chris

And we get the pro version how?

pictures please?

Here you go:
http://www.christeris.com/cart.php?d...ct&productid=2

Thank you
Chris

Wow ok thanks appreciated

Im interested. Any pics of an actual newsletter so we can see what the end result looks like. Thanks

Will wait for screen shots if possible before downloading and installing.

I'll upload photos in around 10 hours. Sorry but it's already 22:30pm here, and I need to add fake data in Forums to be able to give screenshots from the outgoing Newsletter.

Chris

Fair enough look forward to seeing them have a great night!

tanks appreciated for this work

DEMO? Screenshoots?

Read the posts above. :rolleyes:

Screenshots attached to main post. As for the demo, sorry, but as it works in the admicp I can't provide it.

Chris

Interesting....

Very Nice! :)

installed...all look perfect but when i try to send newsletter i had no one user in mail list?!?!?!?...
...so explain how to send mail to specified usergroup ... my forum is 4.1.8. suite...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/11/15.jpg

Works perfect.
Thanks Chris

PS.... Works with HostGator

The field "To Send" will get value when the cronruns. To have this value now has no sence. Let me explain. Let's say that you setup to send a Newsletter after 5 days. Now you've 1,000 Members, but till the Sunday you maybe have 1,200 Members. If the newsletter was counting the Members to send emails now, the new 200 members will not get the Newsletter.

Chris

Looks good. Thanks Chris. Holding off until hear more feedback - if goes well will be sure to purchase pro.

A custom sideblock feature would be immense.

Thanks for the mod. Is there any custom templates for the format of the email ?

For formating the template not. I didn't used a template as I wanted to keep this mod compatible with vB3.x. But you can change the colors by modifying the file forummembers/css/newsletter.css. You can also hide some block if you don't like them, by setting 0 in the General settings

Chris

...nope...after cron run, automaticli and leter manualy, nothing... :(...same picture ...

Are you sure that cronjobs have run? Please goto:
Scheduled Tasks-> Schedule Task Manager
and run manually:
1.- Newsletter (this prepares the emails)
2.- Newsletter Send Emails (this actually sends the messages)

Chris

when i run 1.- Newsletter (this prepares the emails) , its never finish...dont have "Done"...

As long as you're not getting any error, you need to wait to finish the job. Also if you've lots of members you must change the time that the cronjob will run. eg if it's every 15 minutes to change it every 30 min or so.

Chris

If I try to run the cronjob manually I get

This is 4.18

Also - the "recurring" checkbox is grayed out and not selectable...

1.- Please upload the attached file at vb_installation/includes/cron
2.- Reccuring is only available in the PRO version

Chris

I did. The cron is still not sending out the newsletters. If I preview I get the newsletter fine, but not otherwise.

after 24 hours waiting nothing ... :( ...

same problem... :(

reuploaded all files...now 1. work charmy...but second not... :(

Newsletter Send Emails

Fatal error: Call to undefined function getMemberInfo() in /*****/*****/public_html/truckforum/includes/cron/newsletter_sendemails.php on line 52

A new, bug fix, release is available for download. It fixes 2 errors found in cronjobs file. To upgrade upload the files inside the folder upload/includes/cron to your forum/includes/cron. Also import the product-newsletter.xml just to update the version number (there are no changes in this file).

Chris

I've a warning in my post. Be sure that your hosting provider has enable the Mail() function. For example GoDaddy.com does not have it active and does not activate it even if you ask for it.

Chris

Still no good... (no errors though) And the Mail() function is enabled on my servers.

It jsut wont send out emails... Nothing in the cron job log either.

Do you know to use phpMyAdmin, so I can give you some instructions to check if some tables are populating with data after cron runs?

Chris

yes....

...same...i'am waiting to ;)

i replace all files...now cronjob working, but Nothing in the cron job log either, and mails not coming...?!?!?!

waiting 3 days...no answer...uninstalled...:(