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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• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Glockie]

Hi, does this mod have a HTML feature by any chance?
That admins can add HTML into their pm's to users?

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail does not deal with PM sending at all.

The mails you send in the Mailing Lists created by this mod are HTML enabled, though


Fillip

[Glockie]

Aha!

Yes, my bad, I meant email - I'm also looking for a PM HTML enabled system too and was thinking about it when typing this out

Thanks for the quick reply and info!

[lazytown]

What exactly happens when a bounced email is detected? Several older mods handled this by disabling all their subscriptions and email notifications, and sending the user a PM why that has been done.

Does this handle bounced emails from things like thread subscriptions, or only newsletters sent out?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by vissa

What exactly happens when a bounced email is detected? Several older mods handled this by disabling all their subscriptions and email notifications, and sending the user a PM why that has been done.

That's exactly what this mod does

Originally Posted by vissa

Does this handle bounced emails from things like thread subscriptions, or only newsletters sent out?

It can only automatically handle emails sent via the script itself, I believe. However, it will still collect other bounced email and store them (presuming you have not enabled Automatic handling, in which case it will discard them).

In addition, we have a new feature in private Beta over at DBTech which seems to be correctly handling ALL bounced email


Fillip

[lazytown]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That's exactly what this mod does

It can only automatically handle emails sent via the script itself, I believe. However, it will still collect other bounced email and store them (presuming you have not enabled Automatic handling, in which case it will discard them).

In addition, we have a new feature in private Beta over at DBTech which seems to be correctly handling ALL bounced email


Fillip

I'm really only interested in the bounced mail handling. I'm even willing to pay for that, but I assume private Beta means it's not even in a paid version?

[jdj]

I'm currently looking at this mod to see whether it can produce HTML emails with images inserted from vBulletin 4 in much the same way that e.g. MailChimp or Vertical Response can.

The responses do say "html enabled" but I'm not clear what this means. Does this mean that you can design an email in this mod once it's installed in vBulletin 4, add some images and then send? Or do you have to manually add the html code yourself?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by vissa

I'm really only interested in the bounced mail handling. I'm even willing to pay for that, but I assume private Beta means it's not even in a paid version?

Correct, but it will be rolling out to all versions in the not too distant future as it seems pretty stable

Originally Posted by jdj

The responses do say "html enabled" but I'm not clear what this means. Does this mean that you can design an email in this mod once it's installed in vBulletin 4, add some images and then send? Or do you have to manually add the html code yourself?

This mod uses the CKEditor as its editor, there's absolutely not a HTML designer included. You should be able to paste HTML code, though


Fillip

[killerford]

Does this send messages to all usergroups on the forum or via email?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Azaroth1

I'm getting the warning that I have Suhosin set as too restrictive to allow vbMail to work properly.

Is this a major issue? What should I be changing?

This means you may not be able to configure usergroup permissions for this mod correctly, as Suhosin will in its infinite wisdom decide to crop off the remaining form elements until it's below it's arbitrary limits.

The error message advises you what to change - if that doesn't work, you will need to contact your host for advice on how to configure Suhosin as I unfortunately don't know

Originally Posted by killerford

Does this send messages to all usergroups on the forum or via email?

Email


Fillip