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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you like this mod please hit the button to the right ---->

Please remember to click the, button to the right if you installed the mod ---->

What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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]

If, when you create a new list and tick the "default subscribed" box for the select usergroups, they do not show up in the Subscribed Users list, then please PM me with an FTP and AdminCP account so I can look into this on-site.

Fillip

[pjkcards]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

If, when you create a new list and tick the "default subscribed" box for the select usergroups, they do not show up in the Subscribed Users list, then please PM me with an FTP and AdminCP account so I can look into this on-site.

After clicking "Add New List", I don't see any box to check for "default subscribed". Where is this? This is all I see:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ifduzu4x2o...41.59.png?dl=0
Edit: I found it. You setup the mailing list, then edit it, and check the box under the "default subscribed" column. Then you can see all the users are subscribed.

A question questions:
1) Where do you actually setup and send emails? I don't see any place to create an email.
2) hat is the point of the Manage Keywords section?

Thanks for your time.

[super_dork]

Do you have information about the max number of subscribers who can be emailed? I have a mailing list of about 4000 users and I got a 500 error after it seemingly timed out. I was able to send test messages without issue.

[cdoyle]

Does this mod work for everyone else?
I still can't seem to figure out how to get existing members subscribed to my send list. I was hoping to send out a newsletter soon, but I need it to go to all my members in hopes to draw them back to the site.

I've tried every option I see, I just want to know if this is happening to everyone or just me.

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.3 Patch Level 2

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where having multiple mailing lists could render the "Default Subscribed" functionality unusable

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v2.1.3 Patch Level 3

Bug Fixes:

• In certain scenarios, the "Default Subscribed" flag would be disregarded when saving the permissions

Fillip

[cdoyle]

Question on HTML emails.

1. Are you supposed to paste the HTML directly into the editor? The reason I ask is, if I do this, email clients appear to display the emails for the most part OK. But if a user goes to the forum and clicks on the archive, all they see is HTML.

2. somewhere in this thread, I saw that you are supposed to put the doctype within the <body> is that correct?

[SC3]

This might be a really stupid question, but how can I send mail using this?

[SC3]

Ah, I found it. /vbmail.php

[Skaut]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

vBMail v2.1.3 Patch Level 3

Bug Fixes:

• In certain scenarios, the "Default Subscribed" flag would be disregarded when saving the permissions

Fillip

Can you please explain why is this in Addons sections of your OP: Poor Man's Bounced Email Handler

Is it really necessary, I had a feeling your solution was complete. What is it missing that you advise people to install that 2nd mod as well? Please let me know because I am considering buying your PRO version to support your development.