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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[DragonByte Tech]

Files updated, please re-download and re-upload the files. Re-importing the XML is not necessary


Fillip

[snowlion]

Fixed. Thanks Fillip

[wat3v3r]

This sounds like a nice mod, I got a query though. We do not send a lot of mails out but we do send the occasional birthday emails. Would this addon be able to handle the bounced emails from the birthday cron too ?

[DragonByte Tech]

Yeah it will


Fillip

[mescalin]

We use gmail and this mod can't connect to gmail imap. Is there a way to connect gmail imap servers and fetch bounced mails?

[DragonByte Tech]

It should be possible, though I would very strongly not recommend using the same email as you use for actual communication (if you have already set up a separate "bounce" GMail account for your forum then I apologise for the emphasis, I just wanted to prevent possible data loss should you get it working) - vBMail will delete all the email it has collected from the mail server in order to speed up future fetching.

Without seeing an error message (you can see any connection errors by manually running the collect bounced mail scheduled task) I can't help, unfortunately


Fillip

[mescalin]

Thank you for the emphasis. We use seperate bounced mail account for gmail.

Here is the error:

PHP Code:

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {imap.gmail.com:993/novalidate-cert/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX in [path]/dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_imap.php on line 98 


I guess imap function is different for gmail.

http://www.electrictoolbox.com/php-i...d-email-gmail/


So isn't it possible to use VbMail with gmail?

Thanks..

[DragonByte Tech]

From what I can tell, you entered 1 as the IMAP Port in DragonByte Tech: vBMail - Bounced Mail Settings.

Please correct that to 993, which is the correct port for connecting to GMail's IMAP server, then let me know if that works


Fillip

[mescalin]

I saw 1 and edited my post immediately after posting. 993 does not work.

I tried to enter "imap.gmail.com:993/ssl" and many combinations left port number blank if it helps. Thats why you saw 1 as the port. before my edit.

Ps. I tried vbmail with a regular imap server and collected emails.

[DragonByte Tech]

Try these exact settings:

IMAP Host: imap.gmail.com
IMAP Port: 993
Use SSL: Yes

I'm not sure whether you just told me you tried to enter "imap.gmail.com:993" in the port field, but try these settings regardless


Fillip