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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[Dadoo]

Ohhh sorry to have missed that...

Thanks a lot Filip !

[chrisbjax]

Hi Fillip,
Is there any word yet on importing a mail list from vb? or perhaps controlling distribution from vb groups?

[DragonByte Tech]

Not yet, unfortunately.

Feature requests posted at our forum has a higher chance of being included, since vBulletin.org threads often grow to such lengths we can't reasonably track old feature requests.

Fillip

[chrisbjax]

I posted the request on your support forum.
Thank you Fillip.

[arkueckelhan]

Am I correct in assuming that if I send an email out from my normal vbulletin mailing system, this mod won't capture the bounces, etc.?

I ask because I need mailings going out to only those that accept admin emails currently and don't know how to get those into this system. I then want to delete emails that bounce.

(I think this will be a great system for other mailing lists I create as well!)

[Alan_SP]

I think that it should get bounced mail.

You setup which mail address you want to use as bounce email. After mail is bounced, it returns to bounce email and this mod checks this email address through IMAP protocol (you need to set it up so in settings, of course).

So, you'll have all bounced mail there and you could check it automatically or manually, as you wish.

At least I think that it should work in this way. Filip will know more.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by arkueckelhan

Am I correct in assuming that if I send an email out from my normal vbulletin mailing system, this mod won't capture the bounces, etc.?


I ask because I need mailings going out to only those that accept admin emails currently and don't know how to get those into this system. I then want to delete emails that bounce.


(I think this will be a great system for other mailing lists I create as well!)

If you configured the "Bounce Email Address" setting then yes I do believe that it will grab those bounced mail.


Fillip

[manuelmalin]

Hi,

The mod, each time bounced emails cron runs, copies all the data from "vb_dbtech_vbmail_message" table into the "datastore" table :

datastore / dbtech_vbmail_message / data

After about 200 bounced emails, the cron sends me a MySQL error :

Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

One solution is to change my mysql settings, adding more memory, but the problem will happen again maybe after 200 bounced emails more...

Can you help me please ?

Regards,
Manuel

[DragonByte Tech]

Whoops, that was an oversight, that should not happen. Thanks for letting me know

Open /dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_dm_message.php and comment out both instances of the following code:

PHP Code:

VBMAIL_CACHE::build_cache('message'); 


Feel free to delete that datastore entry via

DELETE FROM vb_datastore WHERE title = 'dbtech_vbmail_message'

to save some database space


Fillip

[manuelmalin]

It worked, thank you Fillip !

Manuel