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Version: 4.1.7.0, by Paul M Paul M is offline
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Category: Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Version: 4.1.x Rating:
Released: 12-29-2009 Last Update: 05-23-2012 Installs: 190
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This modification has been withdrawn.
vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x are no longer supported.

The feature is already built into the core vBulletin 4.2.x code.
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In default vBulletin, if you send a large number of e-mails, vbulletin either puts them in it's queue and attempts to send them as each user visits a page, or just simply tries to send them straight away (as is the case when you use the Administrators email users inteface).

The result of this can be that your server can gets seriously overloaded very quickly - or on many hosts, you get banned for exceeding their e-mail sending limits. This can make sending several thousand e-mails (like a newsletter) very difficult.

This modification helps in three ways ;

1. The processing of the mail queue is set-up as a vbulletin cron item.

2. You can add a small delay before each e-mail is sent (0,1,2 or 5 seconds).

3. E-mails from the ACP inteface are sent to the mail queue, not straight to the mail system.

Use option 2 carefully, otherwise you will slow your e-mail system right down.

For this to work, you must use e-mail queuing (ACP Options - Use Mailqueue System = Yes) and also the 'Number of Emails to Send Per Batch' needs to be a realistic value (see below). The installation process will attempt to set these options for you. This modification also requires two file edits to work correctly.

There are two options for the cron job, you can either set it to run every minute, and set the items to be processed to something small (like 10), or you can do what this modification does by default and set it to run every 10 minutes, and set the items to be processed to something larger (like 80, which is the default).

Remember, 10 e-mails per minute = 600 per hour while 80 e-mails every 10 minutes is 480 per hour. The numbers you set really depend on how quick you want large queues processed, and how much your mail server can handle in one go. The default settings are fine for most people.

Once working, when using the ACP mail users inteface, remember you can set it to process 9999 at once (not 500) as the mails will now go into the queue, not be sent directly.

Note: This modification will only affect queued e-mails such as subscription e-mails. It will not affect registration e-mails as they always bypass queuing.

This modification also displays the size of the e-mail queue in the ACP homepage, based on code supplied by Antivirus.

To install, download and uzip the files, then follow the instructions in the text file.


History:

v4.0.1 : 30-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

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  #102  
Old 01-18-2011, 02:04 AM
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Yes the one towards the end is the one I thought. I tried it probably six times even using ctrl h to find and replace indentically with the install instructions, and tried using wordpad, notepad, and my webhosts file editor. Changing the admincp > email.php in the same manner (ctrl h) worked perfectly. I used this mod great on vb3 and had no trouble editing the files.

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Ill give it a go again in the AM
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Im afraid imageshack is blocked where I am, I'll try and look tonight (uk).
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Updating to vbulletin 4.1.2 PL1, let's see if it still works with that version
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After i updated to vb 4.1.2, this mod seems stopped working..

I've sent emails via admincp twice (to 35,000+ users with 210 per batch option) but it was sending email to all users directly without sending in queue..in admincp it was 2000 at once..

tell me wht to do to make it work again?
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Did you re-do the file edits after you upgraded ?
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Did you re-do the file edits after you upgraded ?
Redo file edits mean?
I didn't get u.
I didn't do anything with ur mod after vb update & it was working before.

Today again updated from vb 4.1.2 to vb 4.1.3
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I didn't do anything with ur mod after vb update
Then thats why it no longer works.

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For this to work, you must use e-mail queuing (ACP Options - Use Mailqueue System = Yes) and also the 'Number of Emails to Send Per Batch' needs to be a realistic value (see below). The installation process will attempt to set these options for you. This modification also requires two file edits to work correctly.
You must re-edit those files whenever you upgrade vb, as you are uploading new files.
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Then thats why it no longer works.



You must re-edit those files whenever you upgrade vb, as you are uploading new files.
ok.thx.. did 2 file edits now..anything else i need to do?
or it'll work now when i send email..
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Or simply delete them from the package if they're unchanged. (which they usually post in announcements which files were changed)

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Then thats why it no longer works.



You must re-edit those files whenever you upgrade vb, as you are uploading new files.
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made the two edits, hopefully it works with 4.1.4
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