Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Send Mass Emails Using the Mailqueue System

Send Mass Emails Using the Mailqueue System 1.0

I recently changed where I send emails for my forum from. I had been using by server and now switched to an outside place. I found that sending a mass email would take FOREVER since it would take a few seconds per email it had to send out.

I had my vb setting of "Use Mailqueue System" set to 'Yes' but I realized it was NOT using the queue.

I found the way to enable the queue and sending mass emails takes me just a few seconds now! (This hack makes sending emails from your own server much faster also.)

This hack enables the vb queue only if you have 'Use Mailqueue System' turned on. Sending mass emails will take you a few seconds instead of minutes of hours!

Installation:

Open file 'admincp/email.php'.

Search for:

PHP Code:

vbmail($user['email'], $vbulletin->GPC['subject'], $sendmessage, true, $vbulletin->GPC['from']); 


CHANGE it to:

PHP Code:

vbmail($user['email'], $vbulletin->GPC['subject'], $sendmessage, false, $vbulletin->GPC['from']); 


Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

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[Abe1]

Originally Posted by gobears20

I just installed this and I have a few questions.

Does this have to do with going into your AdminCp and going to Users>Send Email to Users? If it does, one of my big problems that I have had is that I have 13,600 members and when I would try to send an email to them, it would time out after a while and I would have to re-boot my server. Does this hack work well with emailing all of your users? It would be really nice because I have not been able to send out a mass email to them ina while.

Yes, this hack should help.

[Welshy2008]

Mine says "OK" and emails sent successfully - But no-one receives them. I have set it to "send to members that have selected "No Emails".

Any Ideas Please?

I have also changed the admincp / email.php file as told.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Welshy2008

Mine says "OK" and emails sent successfully - But no-one receives them. I have set it to "send to members that have selected "No Emails".

Any Ideas Please?

I have also changed the admincp / email.php file as told.

This show not effect the actual emails.

[gobears20]

I just want to let you know that this works really well! It is not only fast, it doesn't crash sql!

I have not had communication with my users in a whike, because the last time I sent an email to all users, it took a long time, but it ended up crashing sql. I have 13,640 members on my board. I only sent 50 at a time and it took less than seven minutes.

Thanks so mch for this!

Does anybody know of a fix for send a PM to all users? I have used this and it crashes sql also. Any idea on sending a PM to all users?

[Welshy2008]

It did work, just took a little time to get there. Tested again (only on one user addy) and it went straight through.

What I would like to know is what bbcode? - would I need to add to it to add the "Individual" username of the person that I send them too, Please?

Many Thanks,

Welshy2008

[Welshy2008]

Can anyone answer my post above please?

[hdraye]

would that still work with 4.xx?