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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[korny]

Do I have to create a mailing list to have the bounce emails and other options to work? Can I not do a mailing list and just send out a mass email using the vb default mass email section and the bounce emails mod will still work?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by korny

Do I have to create a mailing list to have the bounce emails and other options to work?

No, you can use the bounce management aspects of the mod without setting up a mailing list


Fillip

[Killeglass]

Is there a way to delete test emails I sent while configuring it?


Thank you

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.0.0 Beta 1

Subscription Log

• Tracks every subscription/unsubscription event across all areas of vBMail
• Records every piece of data available regarding any event
• Browsable via the AdminCP

Maintenance: Mass Unsubscribe

• Unsubscribe any combination of usergroup(s) from any combination of mailing list(s) in very few clicks
• Compatible with the Subscription Log
• Accessible under the DBTech - vBMail AdminCP menu group

(Pro) Require Subscription Confirmation

• Requires users to click a confirmation link before they are fully subscribed to a mailing list
• Controlled via vBulletin Options
• Defaults to off

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Killeglass

Is there a way to delete test emails I sent while configuring it?


Thank you

Not at this time, sorry


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.0.0 Beta 2

Subscription Feedback

• Asks for feedback after an Unsubscribe link has been clicked
• Pre-determined feedback items, as well as a free-form text field
• Emails feedback to "Webmaster Email" address

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.0.0 Gold

New Features:

Subscription Feedback

• Feedback reasons can now be customised
• Accessible via a new AdminCP area
• Translatable via the Phrase Manager
• (Pro) Add/Delete feedback reasons

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.0

New Features:

Mailing List History

• Delete emails from history
• Accessible to managers and mailing list owners

(Pro) Inactive User Reminders

• Turn the system on/off
• Include specific usergroups
• Inactivity Threshold (Days)
• Inactivity Metric (Last Visit, Last Activity or Last Post)
• How many emails to send per user in total

Fillip

[BasilFawlty]

I just installed this mod, but I need help. Maybe I just don't understand how it's supposed to work. Problem: I have a test user which is set up with as a regular user but also belonging to a special test user group called "Special Test." I set up a mailing list and set that user group to "Default Subscribed" However, when I click on "View Subscribed Users" in the Mailing List Manager, that user in that test group does NOT show up, nor does he get mail when I send mail from the meal list. However, when I look at the Subscription Log, I see that user has :Subscribed" but under "Mailing List" it says "N/A". So when I select a user group to be "Default Subscribed" in a mailing list, it seems to give them a subscribed status, but not subscribed to any list. What am I missing, or is this a bug?

[Marv]

Hi Filip,

we were wondering, why our newsletter only reachs 7% of our users for quite some time now. Today I came across the field dbtech_vbmail_bounceflag in the vbuser table and wondered, why that field was empty for most users:

Q1: Could this be the reason, that we can?t reach most of our users anymore? The timeframe since this occurs would fit with the installation date of vbMail and the bounce handling.

Q2: Would updating that field with 0 unflag all users?

(And before I break something:

PHP Code:

UPDATE `vbuser` SET `dbtech_vbmail_bounceflag` = `0` 


- is this the correct query to update the field with 0 ?)