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.

[cnczone]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

i'm guessing all versions will produce the same results, as there are 85 that have "click-installed" plus 200 that had paid for it prior to be released openly and no one has had this problem.

The version before this one worked perfect, this version is sending blank emails, times out etc etc, the last version used cron and worked perfect for me. How can I get the last version?

[jeremyalyea]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

hmm. that's interesting. when i look at the zip file, i only see images/commbull ... i never noticed all the other folders until i extracted it. i actually thought you were a bit crazy

i've fixed it to only have the relevant folders

Perfect. That fixed it. Thanks for your help and great mod. Can't wait to send my first newsletter.

[DEGE]

Did anybody try to include the Latest Albums in the Commbull emails?

Would appreciate any help.

DEGE

[Dabbi]

DEGE, that would be wonderful if there's a way to do it.

I'd like to know if there's a way for admin to know who has unsubscribed or bounced back?

[grandeur_69]

unsubscribed would be easy. i'm still looking for an easy way to handle bounce backs ... currently it's all server stuff.

[LadyBeth]

It's working, however emails are not being sent in HTML form despite the users having it selected. Any suggestions?

[grandeur_69]

is this a problem that people are telling you about or is this the form that you are receiving? The first place to look is in your email headers that are sent. Make sure that the headers are formed correctly. Do you have any other mods that may modify the email headers?

[DEGE]

I've recently used Commbull for the first time. I had HTML emails sent to every email except for Gmail ones. At Gmail it appears as an HTML attachment, no name, no text. If you open the attachment it shows ok. Anyone with similar experiences?

Second problem was that it sent itself three or four times to each user... still don't know why...

[abrecher]

I'd be willing to pay for someone to port this to VB4.

[grandeur_69]

Originally Posted by DEGE

I've recently used Commbull for the first time. I had HTML emails sent to every email except for Gmail ones. At Gmail it appears as an HTML attachment, no name, no text. If you open the attachment it shows ok. Anyone with similar experiences?

Second problem was that it sent itself three or four times to each user... still don't know why...

the no name attachment problem was fixed in the last update.

not sure why you would be getting it multiple times to users as it is sending to unique only. I did have a problem with the auto-send to next page. If it's too low, it will submit a blank form and start from the beginning.