Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [DBTech] vBMail v1 (vB5)

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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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 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
  • 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
  • Ability to save as draft (temporary) or template (permanent)
  • Subscribe to an external mailing list via a Module
• 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]

Originally Posted by Merenguista

This MOD allow us to send HTML messages to our users ?

Hi there,

Unfortunately I don't believe the vB5 version allows you to send HTML mail due to limitations in vB5.


Fillip

[Merenguista]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Hi there,

Unfortunately I don't believe the vB5 version allows you to send HTML mail due to limitations in vB5.


Fillip

even with this Improvement Request added to 5.2.1 ?

Ability to set vB_Mail class to send mail as text/html instead of text/plain :

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-5821

[DragonByte Tech]

The only way we could take advantage of that (a three and a half year old three-line code change) would be to drop support for older versions of vB5.

It may be implemented when we go back to correct our mods for the next round of random changes in vB5.

Fillip

[shimei]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

The only way we could take advantage of that (a three and a half year old three-line code change) would be to drop support for older versions of vB5.

It may be implemented when we go back to correct our mods for the next round of random changes in vB5.


Fillip

Just curious, when was the last time your company "went back to correct our mods for the next round of random changes in vB5"?

I see there is an option to purchase a subscription for support. I can't understand why anybody would purchase your company's product support (which I assume includes updates) if your company does not keep up with changes in Vb?

I ask this because I have been waiting for an update for nearly a year. My current product is "limping" along, with not much functionality in the admincp. I have purchased a couple of your products, and "was" looking to purchase three more, including this one, if ever, they were to work. But I have to say, dealing with your company makes me jittery, because I see the lack of support and willingness on your company's part to work outside of Xenforo and Vb4.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by shimei

Just curious, when was the last time your company "went back to correct our mods for the next round of random changes in vB5"?

You can see the last update dates for all our vB5 mods on our profile: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=373913

Originally Posted by shimei

I see there is an option to purchase a subscription for support. I can't understand why anybody would purchase your company's product support if your company does not keep up with changes in Vb?

We absolutely do not sell support, nor do we sell subscriptions. When your license expires, you do not have to revert to the Lite version, you can run the latest version you have access to indefinitely.

What we sell is licenses to receive any updates that may or may not be released within the license period.
Support is always provided free of charge

To address the second half of your question; if you were to submit feedback to Internet Brands that they should focus more on mod development, keeping the core stable so that new versions do not constantly require seemingly random tweaks (the latest issue with form submissions has happened before, was reverted again and has now apparently been re-introduced...?) from mod developers, that would help us immensely

If they have to introduce backwards compatibility breaking changes to the API or something else, why is there not a mailing list for addon developers that gives us a heads up?

Also, all our vB5 mods are flagged as BETA for this very reason. Personally, I also strongly recommend that anyone interested in running custom modifications stay clear of vB5 due to how unstable it is from a mod development point of view.


Fillip

[shimei]

Thanks for the link. I definitely recommend doing research on Dragonbyte products before purchasing them.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by shimei

Thanks for the link. I definitely recommend doing research on Dragonbyte products before purchasing them.

We also provide free Lite versions to allow people to try a demo of our products prior to purchasing.

That being said, I am going through the motions of upgrading to 5.2.1 and testing the admin areas of all our vB5 mods just now. I'll be applying hotfixes to the versions available @ DragonByte-Tech.com once I'm done


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Merenguista

even with this Improvement Request added to 5.2.1 ?

Ability to set vB_Mail class to send mail as text/html instead of text/plain :

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-5821

Just a quick note guys, this change does not exist in vB 5.2.1 as far as I can tell. I've had to petition to re-open this ticket, as (unless they want me to use a different mail sending class entirely) they have not implemented this change.

Sorry


Fillip