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.

[grandeur_69]

yes. Commbull runs mostly independently from vB, so unless they do some major structural changes to the database, it should continue to handle most updates.

[christon26]

K, I am trying to mark this as installed but I'm getting a permissions error, I don't know why

I too would love to know how to have my photopost images show like maybe the last 3 uploads?

Something similar to the vbadvanced homepage I currently have would be nice

[realmr]

Originally Posted by realmr

mails are properly sent only to gmail users, all other users are facing problems either with blank emails or no emails. Any solution to fix this ?

any solution bro ?

[kartik786]

We're trying to send it to our database of 3,00,000 members and its becoming a pain.

We have purchased another mail server and have used smtp details in the vbulletin options.

The batch processing stopped somewhere at 120th page when I was sending 500 users per batch. I had left the computer turned on so I saw this only after when I came back. Here is the screenshot http://clip2net.com/s/1zOTl

I again tried it with batch size as 50 mails per page and it stopped at page 50. I noticed your option of resuming mails from the page that last broked and restarted sending mails from page 60.

The mail processed page 60, 61, 62 and then restarted from page 1 - the beginning again.

Now I have already got 4 emails of the same email in my inbox and couple of members mails asking me to stop spamming them.

How can I send emails easily to my 3,00,000 members?

I love combull, I've used it in the past and wish to continue using it.

Thanks.

[christon26]

New members are automatically subscribed to the newsletter, how can I change this? I want it to be strictly opt-in rather than having to opt out.

[christon26]

Originally Posted by christon26

New members are automatically subscribed to the newsletter, how can I change this? I want it to be strictly opt-in rather than having to opt out.

I figured out how to fix this, by changing the default for the receivebulletin field in PHPMyAdmin from 1 - 0

[sailnet]

can you automatically opt-in existing members and new subscribers and make then opt-out instead of opting in?

[sailnet]

I installed it and uninstalled it after looking at the admin screen.

3.8.7 - no text for new left nav admin menu item. no way to documentation on how to edit the template, no way to send a test for the the admin or a group.

I do appreciate all the hard work that went into this but it's just not for me.

thanks

[SilverBoy]

I have a problem with this product.

When I want to send the most reply threads or the most viewed threads as block in the newsletter the product always select the most read or most viewed from the beginning of my site (9 years old) even if they don't have any reply in the date I selected in the settings (in old versions this option was work great and there blocks select threads only if they have posts posted after the selected date).

[rcull]

I have been a user of Commbull Pro, and it worked great until now. My only problem with the Pro version was with the preview, and did not start with the vbulletin upgrade which was done some time ago!

I just attempted to instal this version and got this error:

The following dependencies were not met:

This product is not compatible with version 4.1.11 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.6.0 / Incompatible with 3.8.99 and greater)

What are my options?