Major Additions - Newsletter (Forum Activity)

Sorry no more free time.........

ChrisTERiS
PHP Freelancer
*** Compatible with vB.3.8.x ***

1.- What's this?

With this AddOn you can sends Newsletters to your Members, informing then for the latest activity in your forums.

2.- Features

• Custom Header/Footer
• CSS file to change the look and feel of the newsletter
• Add a Custom Greeting
• Mark a Post as Important to include the full text of this post in the Newsletter
• Latest News/Announcements
• Latest Sticky Threads
• Latest Popular Threads (most replies)
• Latest Threads
• Include a sidebar (PRO version)
  • Member Info (even with the amount of the unread emails (PRO version)

• • Special Member (Give a userid to promote a user) (PRO version)
  • Top Members (PRO version)
  • New Members (PRO version)
• Schedule One-time Newsletters
• Schedule Reccurings Newsletters (PRO version)
• Preview Newsletter (Test email)
• Add Advertisments to Newsletters (PRO version)
• Exclude Advertisments from specific Usergroup(s) (PRO version)
• Bounces Emails
• Blacklist Emails
• Relay Emails (Send a message even from your mobile) (PRO version)
• Newsletter Archives (PRO version)
• Send Emails using Mail() function
• Send Emails using Sendmail (PRO version)
• Send Emails using SMTP (PRO version)

3.- Installation

• Upload all files from the upload folder to your vB directory
• Import product-newsletter.xm
• Set the General Settings
• Set the Mailserver settings
• Set Newsletter Options
• Schedule a Newsletter and test it.

4.- Copyright

• All outgoing newsletters are having a copyright link in the footer. You're not allowing to remove this line (The PRO version is without this copyright line).

5.- Important Notes

1. You need to set a dedicated email address for bounce emails (from email) which you'll never access with any mail client. Doing it, you'll download the emails, and thus, they'll never preceed from the system.
2. Most cheap GoDaddy hosting plans are not having the Mail() function enabled. If this you, sorry but this mod will not works in your site.

Chris

[Manoel J?nior]

DEMO? Screenshoots?

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Manoel J?nior

DEMO? Screenshoots?

Read the posts above.

[Christos Teriakis]

Screenshots attached to main post. As for the demo, sorry, but as it works in the admicp I can't provide it.

Chris

[Rckcrwlr]

Interesting....

[Robru]

Very Nice!

[whitedd]

installed...all look perfect but when i try to send newsletter i had no one user in mail list?!?!?!?...
...so explain how to send mail to specified usergroup ... my forum is 4.1.8. suite...

[qpurser]

Works perfect.
Thanks Chris

PS.... Works with HostGator

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by whitedd

installed...all look perfect but when i try to send newsletter i had no one user in mail list?!?!?!?...
...so explain how to send mail to specified usergroup ... my forum is 4.1.8. suite...

The field "To Send" will get value when the cronruns. To have this value now has no sence. Let me explain. Let's say that you setup to send a Newsletter after 5 days. Now you've 1,000 Members, but till the Sunday you maybe have 1,200 Members. If the newsletter was counting the Members to send emails now, the new 200 members will not get the Newsletter.

Chris

[Bacon Butty]

Looks good. Thanks Chris. Holding off until hear more feedback - if goes well will be sure to purchase pro.

A custom sideblock feature would be immense.

[vb.help]

Thanks for the mod. Is there any custom templates for the format of the email ?