Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [DBTech] vBMail v2 (vB4)

vBMail: What is it?
vBMail is a professional mailing list mod with Bounced Mail handling and advanced subscription management features.

Uses

vBMail is the perfect solution for any forum who wish to send out large quantities of mail to users on a mailing list. It lets admins and users have fine-grained access to subscriptions, and also automatically handles bounced mail.

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Major Features:

Bounced Mail Handling: Once configured, it will (if so desired) automatically track and handle bounced mail. Alternatively, you can manually handle bounced mail if you so wish.

Automatic "Unsubscribe" Link Creation: If the user receiving the mail has access to unsubscribing, a secure link to unsubscribe themselves from the mailing list will be automatically added to the bottom of the mail. It does not require the user to be logged in, so it complies with spam policies set forth by mail providers.

Mail History: Each past sent mail can be viewed at any time from the front-end.

Advanced Subscription Management: Users can quickly and easily (un)subscribe from the mailing list via the mailing list directory, or the admin can manually change the subscription status in the AdminCP.

Bounced Mail Threshold: When an admin-configured number of mails bounce from the same email address, the user is automatically removed from mailing lists and all other email-related vBulletin features, and notified via PM what happened to their account, as well as directions to change their email addresses.

Complete Feature List (Lite)

• Mailing List Directory
  • List all mailing lists
  • Links to send mail / view mail history / (un)subscribe
  • Unsubscription stats
• Send Mail
  • Uses the full editor in vBulletin
  • Works with 4.1.4's CKEditor
  • Uses vBulletin's Mail Queue system to avoid overloading servers / avoid "maximum mails per hour" server restrictions
• Mail History
  • Displays a list of all mail from that mailing list
  • View the mail in full HTML
  • Unsubscription stats
• (Un)subscribe
  • One-click to add or remove from a mailing list
• AdminCP
  • Create unlimited mailing lists with per-list usergroup permissions
  • Create keywords for people to subscribe to
  • View list of bounced mail
  • Prune list of bounced mail
  • Permissions for who can view unsubscription stats
• Scheduled Tasks
  • Hourly collection of bounced mail
  • Hourly checks for number of bounces above the threshold

Complete Feature List (Pro)

• Send Mail
  • Subscribe to an external mailing list via the vBulletin Sidebar (vB4 only)
  • Override SMTP settings per mailing list
• AdminCP
  • Ability to create External mailing lists, powered by emails not found in vBulletin user accounts

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• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[astdirect]

OK, found reason. I had reached my personal PM limit !! It turns out that a few of the PM's were sent (up until I reachd limit) but the rest of the bounced list did not receive a PM. Will they be sent a PM in due course now that I have increased my PM limit??

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.1

New Features:

HTML Emails

• Full HTML emails now fully supported
• Requires <!DOCTYPE in the body of the email

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.1 Patch Level 1

Bug Fixes:

• Certain replacement variables would not work if the email was sent in HTML mode

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.2

Changes To Existing Features:

Mail Sending

• Saving a Draft as a Template no longer erases the draft
• Saving a Template as a Draft no longer erases the template

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with viewing the mail history that could produce a database error

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.2 Patch Level 1

Bug Fixes:

• Subscribing to External mailing lists via the forum home block would not work as intended

Fillip

[Raakin]

When we create a new mailing list with default subscription for a certain usergroup, it is not subscribing any user to that mailing list.

How can we subscribe only those users who have opted for receiving Admin email? using the default subscription after creating a new mailing list?

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.3

New Features:

Inactive Users Viewer

• Displays a paginated list of inactive users
  • User ID
  • User Name
  • Last Visit
  • Last Activity
  • Last Post
  • Whether this user is "bounce flagged"
• Sortable by:
  • User Name
  • Last Visit
  • Last Activity
  • Last Post

Fillip

[pjkcards]

Looks like a great mod, thanks for releasing it, and thanks for your time spent on supporting it.

Does it measure open rates? I'm concerned that much of our mass emails go into spam, and we want to fix that.

[BGN64]

I just upgraded to 2.1.3 lite on vB 4.2.2 PL4 and get the following error on vbmail.php

Fatal error: Access to undeclared static property: VBMAIL::$version in /home/user/public_html/vbmail.php on line 214

[BGN64]

Commented out

Line 114 'version' => '2.1.3',

This removes the error but I have not tried send an email yet.