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Email reminder for inactive users
Version: 1.2.7, by C Braithwaite C Braithwaite is offline
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Category: Mini Mods - Version: 3.6.8 Rating:
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"
***

**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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I didnt like the link in my footer, messed my skin up a lot.
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Uninstall 1.11 and install 1.09.
Thx done, but after run the script it found anyway only one Inactive User, why?
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ok im having a little bit of trouble here, im new to this all, anyway where you say to upload the php file to the server,
what exactly is DIR????? i am looking and im in includes/cron/ but i cant find the dir?

and if i have not downloaded any of this before should i install the 1.09 or the 1.11
DIR refers to the path to your forum:

If your forum is at www.yoursite.com/forum/ then the path would be www.yoursite.com/forum/includes/cron/

If your forum is at www.yoursite.com then the path would be www.yoursite.com/includes/cron/

If your forum is at forum.yoursite.com then the path would be forum.yoursite.com/includes/cron/

etc.

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Thx done, but after run the script it found anyway only one Inactive User, why?
With version 1.09, it's not going to find all of the inactive users the first time it runs. It will start at the beginning of your database and go through it in batches looking for members who match whatever criteria you've set in the options.
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Admin CP | Scheduled Tasks | Scheduled Task Manager

Scroll down to find Inactive User Reminder Emails

Click "Go" next to "Edit" in the drop down box

Scroll down to Filename and enter the correct path in the text box to the right of that label
Ok I did that and still got the same error. I even downloaded the 1.0.9 version and tried that and still got the error.
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Ok I did that and still got the same error. I even downloaded the 1.0.9 version and tried that and still got the error.
Post the error, please.

Previously you posted this:

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Inactive User Reminder Emails

Warning: include_once(/home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/forums/./includes/cron/remindermail.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 110

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/forums/./includes/cron/remindermail.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 110
That error was telling you you have a bad path specification. Notice the /./ part up there? No valid path could have that in the middle. The "./" is saying "go up one directory level and then follow the rest of the path to the correct directory". In a valid path statement, that would always be the FIRST part of the path, not stuck in the middle like that.
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I get this error on run task:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in /home/board_patch/forum/includes/class_mail.php(266) : eval()'d code on line 4

Any fix?
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I get this error on run task:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in /home/board_patch/forum/includes/class_mail.php(266) : eval()'d code on line 4

Any fix?
Which version did you install? If it was 1.11, uninstall and install 1.09.
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great mod congrats! i'd just like to be able to define user id's where the mail wont be sent (some users may request that) thanks
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great mod congrats! i'd just like to be able to define user id's where the mail wont be sent (some users may request that) thanks
Instruct members who do not wish to receive such notifications to uncheck "Receive email from admins" in their User CP. They won't receive this email again.

I include that, along with a link to the User CP | Options page, in the email that is sent out, as a way of ensuring that I'm in compliance with anti-spam efforts.
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ok thanks a lot once again, great mod
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