Version: 1.2.7, by C Braithwaite
Developer Last Online: Dec 2012
Category: Mini Mods -
Version: 3.6.8
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Released: 02-08-2007
Last Update: 08-23-2008
Installs: 1463
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Inactive reminder emails. This mod was designed to send out a reminder to inactive members to try and win them back.
***1.2.7 Update***
This update includes built in support for bouncing emails. The script will automatically detect the bounced mail, mark it as bounced so the user is not to be contacted again so as to avoid spam, and then move that user into a seperate usergroup. This plugin is still in it's testing stages, but I have addressed the bugs mentioned previously regarding the emailing side of things.
This is important so keep reading
To install this plugin and take advantage of the bounced email features you are going to need to follow these instructions very carefully. I can not gaurentee that they will work to the letter as this will be based on each persons individual hosting settings.
Step 1: Pre Install
Before you touch this product you need to do the following
Create an "inactive" usergroup
Set up a "bounce to" email address
Pick an email address that you want to use as your bounced email address. Im using "bounce@icora.co.uk". feel free to use whatever you wish.
Add a email message filter
This is the hard part. You need to set up a filter that will 'pipe' an email sent to the above email address.
I am using Cpanel 11 and this is how i have mine set up:
Rules: 'To' 'Equals' 'bounce@icora.co.uk'
Actions: 'Pipe to program' with the setting: |/usr/local/bin/php /home/icora/public_html/forum/bounce.php
This will depend entirely on your settings and structure so you may have to do a little research. It would be very helfull if people who have to use diferent configurations would post them on here.
Go into vBulletin options, and find the options for 'Emails'. there is a setting asking you if you want to use '-f'. set this to yes.
While still inn the email options set the 'Bounce Email Address' to your above address.
Step 2: Install
Remove all previous trace of this modification, and upload all the files in the "upload" folder to your base directory of the server.
Go into your product management section and add a new product. upload the XML file with overwrite selected.
Refresh your admin CP to load the new menu items. Just under the "users" group you will find an "Inactive Reminders" group. open that up and click on settings.
Play with these settings and options to suit for the most part. when you come down to the bounce settings you MUST use the same email address as the one you created above.
Set to active and save.
I must re-iterate that this version has not been widely tested, but the simulations i have ran have worked. I look forward to your feedback!
Features:
Select the period of time before a user is considered inactive.
Select how many emails to send to each inactive user per inactivity period
Choose weather inactivity is based on members "Last Post" or their "Last Visit"
Specify how often followup emails are sent
Specify alternative emails to send to reduce repetition
Keep a log of all inactive users contacted
Planned Updates:
More detail in reports
...such as
Which useres returned
Effectivness stats
Email validity
**1.2.1 Update***
Added more detail to the reports section. You can now see the email address, and quickly indicate which emails were invalid. You can link directly to that user to edit as you wish.
I have fixed some errors which have been crashing people's database. Please post any problems if you can.
**1.2.3 Update***
Fixed several problems with escaping strings
Stopped database errors locking up site
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**1.2.4 Update***
Added a "From Email" so you can specify your own email address to send the reminders from.
Fixed potential bug for people who do not use the mail queue.
Anyone having problems with sending emails out too fast, and multiple emails being sent need to consider changing their email settings in vbulletin options.
People with emails going out too fast - edit Number of Emails to Send Per Batch to a lower amount
People with multiple emails sending - edit Use Mailqueue System to "Yes, with locking"
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**1.2.5 Update***
Added more stats in the reports page, also added a "Send test email" option so users can test the functionality of the mod
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It worked great. Before the server was even done sending the E-mails all out, visitors were already coming back!!
Hopefully the server being slow will be just once a month, since it's set to them geting E-mailed once every 30 days, so the 10,261 people won't get them for another month!!! It took about four hours for them all to be sent out! And this is on a dedicated server!!
If I changed to the older version, would the people that just got E-mailed get the E-Mail again, next time it does it, or would it know they were just E-Mailed?
it wont be monthly - it will most likely be daily. it all depends on frequency, inactive users etc. i can imagine that on a large bored the time you install it, it will generate a large amount of emails. i will make a work around for this at some point.
1.09 spaces the emails out directly, but 1.11 put all the emails into the vbulletin's mail queue in one go. in retrospect i should have broke this down as each one is a db query regardless.
I have installed your mod. The install was easy and the ACP easy to usnderstand. Great work.
One question. Bigboy raised it earlier. I don't wish to send emails constatnly to Users with X inactivity. I have done it once, and now I just want to remind people every year(20-Apr-08, etc) who have been inactive, since the last run (ie today). is there na easy way of doing it.
I have set the freq to 365 and the inact to 365 as well.
I image this will send all the same users an email this time next year rather then just the lastest inactive users. Is that correct.
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