After a day of playing around with it, I was able to get Chris' mod working, so you may want to try it, if you can deal with his temper. He charges $34.95 for it on his site.
While the add-on advertises that it allows you to create a newsletter with the "look and feel" of your site, in reality, you will need a separate HTML generator like CoffeeCup (which is free) in order to generate the HTML header and footer required for the "look and feel" of your web site. Just putting in the code from the header and footer templates into the header and footer area of the add-on will not work, as I found out. You will have to generate your own header and footer and then place the HTML in each space for that purpose.
The add-on does not let you schedule the time when a newsletter is sent, only the date or day of the week or month. Newsletters are all sent at 1am. That cannot be changed.
I also had a lot of trouble getting it to actually send out the newsleter. Unlike commbull, you do not add it to the Scheduled Tasks area of Admincp. If you do, you will create a lot of confusion, and it will not work correctly.
There are probably a few other quirks that I missed. If you have any questions, please feel free to hit me up. Of course, a lot of this could have been avoided if there were some simple installation instructions with it.
Thanks for your input.
Are you running VB 4.2 ?
Have you sent the newsletter to your forum members successfully? If so, could you send me a copy if I register on your forum? (I'd like to see it)
01-15-2013, 01:13 PM
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