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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Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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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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• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[astdirect]

Installed and all looks good. Can you tell me how quickly this sends the emails out ? I am only allowed 500 per hour but i have a mailing list of 1000+. How can i achieve this ? I have mailqueue on in email options and set batch to 10, but no idea if this is correct.

Also, when does a user receive a PM ? Is it after emails bounce a certain amount of times or after first bounce ?

[DragonByte Tech]

It sends out mailqueue amount of emails every page load.

He receives a PM when the amount of bounces match the threshold set in the options.

Fillip

[RedPoint]

Hi, the Check 4 Hacking vers. 1.0 addon say:

infect in dbtech_vbmail_message module

Its true? Please check!

Regards

[DragonByte Tech]

That would mean that someone has tried to send an email containing an infection. It is not an infection in this mod, as that is not a module but a database table. Database tables created via a SQL command cannot be infected


Fillip

[RedPoint]

Hi Fillip,
I use Check 4 Hacking - Test the datastore for infects. Today when i run manual the cron, i become this message:

found infect in dbtech_vbmail_message modul - the forum language was in german and in german, a module is mean a addon. Now i repeat the task, nothing to see - its bizzare

[DragonByte Tech]

Seems like there's nothing to worry about then


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v1.1.5:
Fix: Adding "too many" keywords produced unexpected results when saving a draft or template and opening it again later

Fillip

[chrisbjax]

Hi Fillip,
Is there any special way vbmail is hooking the navbar?
I am having an issue with another mod (Tournaments, Ladders & Leagues Manager, by Bananalive)

When vbmail is disabled, the navbar appears with all options visible for TLLM.


However, when I enable vbmail, I lose most of the options for TLLM.


Any ideas on what may be causing this?
Here's a link to my site, if you'd like to look.
http://forums.usmilitarygamers.com/competitions.php

[DragonByte Tech]

They must be using an incorrect method of hooking into the navbar then, I use the only method known to me that will work around the design flaw in vB4's navbar creation code and won't break the Home tab


Fillip

[chrisbjax]

ok, thank you Fillip, I will ask over on the other mod.