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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[oddmud]

I guess this can't be used with the internal PHP mail() function.

[DragonByte Tech]

I'm not 100% certain about that tbh, I guess that would depend on whether it's passing the headers correctly.

I tend to recommend using SMTP anyway since it's more robust.

Fillip

[lazytown]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

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

Can you tell me if there have been any updates from the beta in Oct (1.1.7) to now? I was asking previously about it handling bounced emails from all emails sent out (pm notifications, threads subscriptions, etc). I was sent a beta link that supposedly did so, but haven't seen any progress or since then. I haven't tried the beta due to concerns it wasn't ready. Does the live pro version on dbtech include the ability to handle bounces from outside just this script's mailing list?

[DragonByte Tech]

I haven't updated the files here on vBulletin.org, but the people who have tried out the cPanel/WHM mail server failure catcher code have not reported any problems, nor have we on DBTech


Fillip

[dog-tag]

Originally Posted by oddmud

Really? Wow, you learn something new every day. It's not cPanel, it's Plesk. I'll dig a little deeper, thanks for your help thus far. Appreciated.

With plesk use -
user+domain.com
SSL yes

I've just got it connected using that, waiting to see if the bounces process now.

[DragonByte Tech]

You can test it by manually sending an email to your bounce handler (use an email not connected to your forum, or create a new one off your server) then manually re-run the Collect Bounced Mail scheduled task - if it catches the email you should be good to go


Fillip

[marup]

Hi

i installed VbMail 1.1.7 on Vbulletin 4.2.0
when i try to run Manually Scheduled Option "DragonByte Tech: vBMail - Collect Bounced Mail" i have this error:

DragonByte Tech: vBMail - Collect Bounced Mail Fatal error: Could not open the connection to the mailbox, please check your configuration.

Imap user account is ok, i tried to configure in Mozilla Thunderbid and i can receive mail.
I don't use Plesk, but a dedicated server.

can you help me ?

Tnx

[DragonByte Tech]

IMAP settings used for vBMail are different than SMTP settings which you use to receive mail.

Can you show me a screenshot of your settings - redact the password, obviously.

Fillip

[marup]

Ok, see screenshots

[DragonByte Tech]

Try the following alterations:
1. Set IMAP Host to localhost
2. Set IMAP Port to 993
3. Replace the @ in IMAP User Name with a +

Let me know if that works for you


Fillip