Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Commbull (Community Bulletin) 5.1b

Community Bulletin:

This mod grabs all the latest information in your forum (posts, threads, events, birthdays, etc) and puts them into a newsletter to be sent to all your members that subscribe.

This mod has been around a long time and gone through many versions. It has been a paid version for a number of years with great success, but it's time to pass on the reigns.

[edit Feb 03, 2011]
Attempted fix for sending to users that are part of multiple user groups

[installation]
- upload some files
- upload the product.xml
- make 1 mod to the usercp options template
- FULL DETAILS in the README.txt

[note] many people ask why all the images, etc don't show up in the HTML version of what is in your forum. This is because most mail clients strip out the CSS and vbulletin is 99% CSS. I have created an HTML version that is nice and clean, but is forum independent. If you know what you are doing, you can edit this HTML file and build your own newsletter.

[yahooooh]

i use paul addon for cron e-mail so if ypu add the cron for newsletter it will not affect ther server
i have server and so many people here , make it as option so the user will choose
i wait this cron because it was perfect solution

[Eric]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

the cron has been removed not because of the complexity, but because too many servers can't handle the load of sending that many emails. Most dedicated servers handle it just fine, but virtual hosted domains don't work so well.

Since we customize each newsletter with information from our other sites, a cron was no longer useful for us, so I never had the big priority to add it in.

As far as development for this, anyone is free to make mods and distribute it. If it's a good one (and tested well, i'll add it in)

Any plans on making this vB4? Or, would I be free to convert it myself and release it?

[HansMuenchen]

Originally Posted by SecondV

Any plans on making this vB4? Or, would I be free to convert it myself and release it?

Like he wrote, it's open-source so also that will be allowed.
Hope only someone will make it ready for vb4 and also find the mistake with the cron.

Greetings
Hans

[Taurus1]

Can you please tell me where to add the full URL to show the images in the newsletter??

Thanks!

[sensimilla]

Ive been using combull since years, thanks for the public release. Voted MOTM.

[saadessa]

great thank you
is it make over load server after use to sent to about 20,000 members

[aldamon]

Originally Posted by SecondV

Any plans on making this vB4? Or, would I be free to convert it myself and release it?

Originally Posted by HansMuenchen

Like he wrote, it's open-source so also that will be allowed.
Hope only someone will make it ready for vb4 and also find the mistake with the cron.

Greetings
Hans

This. Won't upgrade to 4.0 without Commbull port, even though we already have a license.

[TheLastSuperman]

Oooh going to test this now, thanks

[high]* TheLastSuperman marks as installed and will post back if problems but looks good imo![/high]

Edit: Can we get an ETA or a word from the author if a 4.0 release is around the corner or even planned? - Thanks

[Leo Brazil]

Fantastic Job. Gonna test it right now.

Just to see it for vB 4.0 when I had to upgrade my board.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Oooh going to test this now, thanks

[high]* TheLastSuperman marks as installed and will post back if problems but looks good imo![/high]

Edit: Can we get an ETA or a word from the author if a 4.0 release is around the corner or even planned? - Thanks

I don't think he is. That's why he's releasing it OS here. He doesn't have time to work with it anymore.