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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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Change line 152 of /dbtech/vbmail/cron/threshold.php to

PHP Code:

    $pmdm =& datamanager_init('PM', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_SILENT); 


I'll just wait a few more days for you to finish reporting these before releasing the bugfix version

I'm happy for you and imma let you finish, but this bugfix version will be the biggest bugfix release of all time.


Fillip

[weindians]

if i turn off mailqueue option in email setting all mails will be sent straight away? is that correct? n i can get warning from host! vbmail uses queueing only if that option is turned on?? i sent one set after turning off cron based email mod( have been using) with mailqueue still on but still not delivered ( week) i assume that is because if that user visits only email sent in that case..

[DragonByte Tech]

If you turn mailqueue off, you will receive warnings from hosts if they are prone to do that

I'm not sure what vB chooses to do if you turn off mailqueue, tbh. I support it, but I'm unsure if it ignores the setting or not.


Fillip

[Logician]

I made a small change in dbtech/vbmail/actions/admin/bounce.php:

Before line:

PHP Code:

print_submit_row($vbphrase['view'], 0); 


I added:

PHP Code:

    //Logician Hack : Show total flagged
    $totalflagged = $db->query_first("
                            SELECT COUNT(*) as count
                            FROM  " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user 
                            WHERE user.dbtech_vbmail_bounceflag = '1'
                                    ");
    print_description_row("Total Flagged Members: ".intval($totalflagged[count]));
    //Logician Hack : Show total flagged 


So now I can monitor flagged user count easily without needing phpmyadmin.

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v1.1.4:
Fix: In some rare cases, connection to the IMAP server could fail
Fix: The PM sent to a user when the bounce flag in effect will now correctly display the email
Fix: Forums without email verification would not properly un-flag a user when they changed their email
Change: IMAP connection errors are now displayed in the error message

Fillip

[CharlieDelta]

Thank you for the update to this great product. My navbar issue is now fixed!!
Good work DBT!

[snowlion]

I'd received 2000+ emails back with this message included

Domain bentinhyeu.info has exceeded the max emails per hour (500) allowed. Message discarded.

I used Paul M's Cron based e-mail sending so the Mailqueue System has enabled.

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail uses vBulletin's Mailqueue system, there's nothing more I can do on my end


Fillip

[Dadoo]

Originally Posted by Logician

I've been reported that sometimes this error shows up for admin:

PHP Code:

Fatal error:  Class 'VBMAIL' not found in /home/..../public_html/forum/dbtech/vbmail/hooks/mail_send.php on line 10 


I traced it a little and noticed it could only happen during vb cron mailing. You include the class in "global_bootstrap_init_complete" hook so it should be there in all page visits but there must be a vb section which triggers vb mail cron for admin visitor without initializing "global_bootstrap_init_complete" hook to produce this error. I'm still working on it to find where but wanted to report here in case you also have an idea.

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

My guess is that the Cron doesn't use vB's bootstrap to initialise. Since cron mailing don't need vBMail stuff anyway, I'll edit the mail_send hook with this

PHP Code:

    if (class_exists('VBMAIL') AND VBMAIL::$pluginglobals['mailinglist']) 


That should work


Fillip

Unfortunately, that problem still exist with 1.1.4 version, but in "actions/admin/mailinglist.php on line 19"

[DragonByte Tech]

No, in that script it happens because of the i.s.s.w. "security" product. Please either disable that or set its admin_global hook to 65535 so it stops breaking every other product.

Fillip