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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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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

[Logician]

Originally Posted by 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

Thanks for this fix. After a while, it was also producing Fatal Error Allowed memory size of ... exceeded error as well.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Tri@de

I tried but i had some odd behaviour:
i have to write on the editor without spaces like this

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>Alteregonline Newsletter</title><link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /></head><body ><center><!-- Table for background color when body tags are stripped --><table align="center" width="98%" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>

instead of:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Alteregonline Newsletter</title>
<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
</head>
<body >
<center>
<!-- Table for background color when body tags are stripped -->
<table align="center" width="98%" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>

There's a way to avoid this?
If i use spaces the newsletter appear messed up.

That's probably because we convert new lines to <br /> tags. This is essential in order to allow non-HTML only mails to be sent.

Unfortunately to my knowledge there is no way around this


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v1.1.6
Feature: Now compatible with vBulletin 4.2.0's Navigation Manager.

Fillip

[mescalin]

i use that mod for only bounced mail handling but have a problem with it. it changes user group of banned members too. So their bans are lifted because of bounced mails.

[DragonByte Tech]

Could you please re-create this as a new bug report over at our forum? Sadly it's too easy for posts here on vb.org to get lost / missed

Thanks


Fillip

[John Lester]

Fillip I have a question about the unsubscribe part. When they click the link at the bottom of the email, what happens next? Does it take them to a page where they enter their email address and click a button? Does it send them another email with another link to click?

I'm having serious problems with my host (hostmonster) and finding an appropriate opt out solution

Hmmm does this handle ALL outgoing emails? IE birthday emails, thread subscriptions, new pm notifies? Or are those still handled by vBulletin? Reason I ask is that hostmonster requires a 1 click opt out for all emails. Meaning that after the user clicks the link in the email, they enter their email addy in a box and click a link/button and be completely done with the unsubscribing process.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by John Lester

Fillip I have a question about the unsubscribe part. When they click the link at the bottom of the email, what happens next? Does it take them to a page where they enter their email address and click a button? Does it send them another email with another link to click?

I'm having serious problems with my host (hostmonster) and finding an appropriate opt out solution

They will be unsubscribed as soon as they click the link, no need to enter email address or click anything else on the page

Originally Posted by John Lester

Hmmm does this handle ALL outgoing emails? IE birthday emails, thread subscriptions, new pm notifies? Or are those still handled by vBulletin? Reason I ask is that hostmonster requires a 1 click opt out for all emails. Meaning that after the user clicks the link in the email, they enter their email addy in a box and click a link/button and be completely done with the unsubscribing process.

No vBMail doesn't handle those. Also, those emails are opt-in so they should be exempt from those requirements.


Fillip

[John Lester]

I agree with you Fillip that the birthday emails and such are all opt in and should be exempt, but my retarded host says no.

I don't send out mass emails so I probably won't install this mod, but if it's like any of your other mods I'm sure it rocks Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.

[cisoprogressivo]

I uninstalled vBmail and sometime I get this database error:

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT languageid,
phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
phrasegroup_dbtech_vbmail AS phrasegroup_dbtech_vbmail,
phrasegroup_user AS phrasegroup_user,
phrasegroup_album AS phrasegroup_album,
phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
phrasegroupinfo AS lang_phrasegroupinfo,
options AS lang_options,
languagecode AS lang_code,
charset AS lang_charset,
locale AS lang_locale,
imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
FROM forumvb_language
WHERE languageid = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_dbtech_vbmail' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Friday, July 13th 2012 @ 12:22:08 PM
Error Date : Friday, July 13th 2012 @ 12:22:08 PM
Script : http://www.androidworld.it/forum/vbmail.php?langid=1
Referrer :
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[DragonByte Tech]

You need to delete the files from this mod once you've uninstalled it.

Fillip