[JulianWolf]

If somebody could combine this with a "Subscribe whole Forum"-Thread, this is a great Newsletter-Tool.

Well, all parts are existing somewhere already. So just some kind of "wishlist":

• Give users an Option called "HTML or plain-text-mails"
• Make two Textareas, one for the plain text, one for the html, in the Backend.
• Now the Newsletter-Funktionality is easy. User can choice between HTML, Plain Text or "no eMails". For sending a Newsletter you can just write the plain-text in the one, the HTML in the other Box and each user get?s the one he wants to have.
• Next point: Inster "alternate" eMail-Texts. So notifier-Mails for new PMs, for new posts and so on are also sent in HTML, if the user wants to.
• Built up an "subscribe to forum"-Funktion. I?m using vBa with one forum-thread for the news on the start-page. When a User can subscribe the forum (one mail for every first post of a new thread in a forum ore a weekly overview over the first post of all new threads) then there is a great interactive Newsletter-function.

This would be a great Newsletter-Hack with lots of good ways in it. The newsletter can work automatically (subscribe new threads of news-forum), choisable in HTML or plain-text, it can be choisen by the user if he wants it instant or weekly (or monthly?), the save subscribe- and unsubscribe-links are built-in in vBulletin already an extra-newsletter can be sent manualy with the backend, users can sign-off easily in the backend ... what do you think?

Two nice add-ons:

• Get the variables "new PMs", "new threads", "new pagers", "profile-views" and so on into this eMail. So a user sees in each eMail, how many PMs he has and so on. We could also put it "new users" or "new member-fotos" and so on, to get all of the users more and more in action.
• A backend-advertisement-control. Let?s say we put in an $advertisement in the mail-templates, then in the admincp can be managed with usergroups and other queries (reputation, genter, ZIP-Code and so on) which one of different predifined advertisements are put into each eMail, text or HTML. So all "active" users can get an advertisement for a paied VIP-Account, all inactive users can be invited to get more active, all new users can get some hints for special funktions/hacks in the forums and so on.

For this all, working fine, I would immediate donate 150$ for the programmer. Somebody else also?

Best wishes, Julian!