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.

[djbaxter]

From phpMyAdmin or from vBulletin AdminCP | Maintenance | Execute SQL Query, typemin and execute the following:

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin

Then reinstall.

[grandeur_69]

Originally Posted by masterme

Unfortunally I do not get it to work. Installed fine and am able to do all the settings. But no matter what I do, I do not receive any newsletter.

I have tried smtp and tried without. Tested if the username and pw were correct, check.
Also checked with my co-admin with an gmail adres, did not receive it too.

I have my own server and manage it myself, so those settings (max send per hour, safe mode etc) are ok.

Any more ideas what could be the cause of the trouble?

commbull simply uses vbulletin's mail sending function, so the problem is not likely to be from commbull itself.

check 2 things:
- the vbulletin mailqueue table to see if they are being added there
- server maillog to see how they are being handled by your server

[grandeur_69]

Originally Posted by kartik786

I dont know why this guys request was completely ignored

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=123

I have similar issues and would love to use this mod.

please let me know how to resolve this error :

i'm not entirely sure why the uninstall did not drop the column receivebulletin, as the uninstall info is pretty straight forward and drops the 3 columns that are added.

My guess might be that you do not have permissions to use the SQL query "show columns", as both the install code and uninstall code check to see if the columns are there before installing / uninstalling.

I may have to figure out a way to check that "show columns" actually returns the proper results before running these checks.

to manually uninstall:

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE user DROP INDEX receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin_type;

[kartik786]

Thanks dj,

After doing that, another error crawled up

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE user ADD receivebulletin_type SMALLINT (5) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' not null;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'receivebulletin_type'
Error Number : 1060
Request Date : Saturday, August 21st 2010 @ 11:13:37 AM
Error Date : Saturday, August 21st 2010 @ 11:14:35 AM

[kartik786]

Thanks for the quick support,

Does anything change knowing that I already dropped a table as suggested by DJ ?

Appreciate the promptness in response

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

i'm not entirely sure why the uninstall did not drop the column receivebulletin, as the uninstall info is pretty straight forward and drops the 3 columns that are added.

My guess might be that you do not have permissions to use the SQL query "show columns", as both the install code and uninstall code check to see if the columns are there before installing / uninstalling.

I may have to figure out a way to check that "show columns" actually returns the proper results before running these checks.

to manually uninstall:

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE user DROP INDEX receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin_type;

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by kartik786

Thanks for the quick support,

Does anything change knowing that I already dropped a table as suggested by DJ ?

Appreciate the promptness in response

Yes: Ignore the first DROP as you've already done that. Run the other two:

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE user DROP INDEX receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin_type;

[kartik786]

Okay Installed successfully but have some internal issues with my vendors code conflicting with this.. lets see how it goes.

[djbaxter]

Those are three separate SQL statements:

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin;

That one failed because you already deleted that table.

Try the following two separately. If you get an error like you did above, basically saying the table doesn't exist, don't worry about it - that's just telling you there's nothing to delete.

ALTER TABLE user DROP INDEX receivebulletin;

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin_type;

When all of those are removed, then you can reinstall the add-on.

[djbaxter]

Oh, and if you are using a table prefix, that needs to be prepended to the SQL statement:

ALTER TABLE {TABLE-PREFIX}user DROP receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE {TABLE-PREFIX}user DROP INDEX receivebulletin;
ALTER TABLE {TABLE-PREFIX}user DROP receivebulletin_type;

ReplaceE {TABLE-PREFIX} with your actual prefix.

[Sunray]

Hi,

Thanks for this great mod very useful.

I have installed it on vB 4.0.5 boad and send my first community newsletter to the admins for test. We received it. Then I sent it to all my members but unfortunately nobody received it.

I didn't changed any other options exepted the selection of usergroups.
Does somebody have had the same problem and can help me please ?

Thanks in advance

Cordially