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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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

[anihil2]

Hello, I found one issue with vBMail. When user click on unsubscribe link in email he/she will get feedback pool before getting unscubscribe. Lets assume that at this time noone else did unsubscribe. After user unsubscribed in View Mail History admin should see for this specific mail only one person in 'Unsubscribed Users' column. That is correct if user used unsubscribe link only once. But if user go to this unsubscribe link without even setting feedback option it will automatically increment this 'Unsubscribed Users' counter. In my example below I have one user test which press link unsubscribe several times and I get:


Could it be fixed to count only users that actually unsubscribed from mailing list and not how many time they clikc on unsubscribe link?

[anihil2]

Originally Posted by anihil2

Hello, I found one issue with vBMail. When user click on unsubscribe link in email he/she will get feedback pool before getting unscubscribe. Lets assume that at this time noone else did unsubscribe. After user unsubscribed in View Mail History admin should see for this specific mail only one person in 'Unsubscribed Users' column. That is correct if user used unsubscribe link only once. But if user go to this unsubscribe link without even setting feedback option it will automatically increment this 'Unsubscribed Users' counter. In my example below I have one user test which press link unsubscribe several times and I get:


Could it be fixed to count only users that actually unsubscribed from mailing list and not how many time they clikc on unsubscribe link?

Didn't have time to wait for fix so I fix it myself. Fix description below.

In file dbtech\vbmail\actions\mailinglists.php from lines 1053-1069 move code:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->GPC['mailid'])
    {
        // We have a mail id
        if ($mail = $db->query_first_slave("SELECT unsubscriptions FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dbtech_vbmail_mail WHERE mailid = " . intval($vbulletin->GPC['mailid'])))
        {
            // Mail id was valid
            if (!$subscribeflag OR $mail['unsubscriptions'])
            {
                // We're either unsubscribing, or we can decrement it successfully
                $db->query_write("
                    UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dbtech_vbmail_mail
                    SET unsubscriptions = unsubscriptions " . (!$subscribeflag ? '+' : '-') . " 1
                    WHERE mailid = " . intval($vbulletin->GPC['mailid'])
                );
            }
        }
    } 


Before line 1043 which is:

PHP Code:

VBMAIL::$db->insert('dbtech_vbmail_subscriptionlog', array( 


After change it code should look like this:

PHP Code:

    else if ($exists)
    {
        if ($vbulletin->GPC['mailid'])
        {
            // We have a mail id
            if ($mail = $db->query_first_slave("SELECT unsubscriptions FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dbtech_vbmail_mail WHERE mailid = " . intval($vbulletin->GPC['mailid'])))
            {
                // Mail id was valid
                if (!$subscribeflag OR $mail['unsubscriptions'])
                {
                    // We're either unsubscribing, or we can decrement it successfully
                    $db->query_write("
                        UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dbtech_vbmail_mail
                        SET unsubscriptions = unsubscriptions " . (!$subscribeflag ? '+' : '-') . " 1
                        WHERE mailid = " . intval($vbulletin->GPC['mailid'])
                    );
                }
            }
        }
        
        // We either subscribed or unsubscribed
        VBMAIL::$db->insert('dbtech_vbmail_subscriptionlog', array(
            'userid'         => $user['userid'],
            'mailinglistid' => $mailinglist['mailinglistid'],
            'dateline'         => TIMENOW,
            'subscribed'     => $subscribeflag,
            'reason'         => (!$subscribeflag ? 'un' : '') . 'subscribed',
            'mailid'         => $vbulletin->GPC['mailid']
        ));
    } 


What this change will give you?
When user hit link with unsubscribe it will increment counter "Unsubscribed Users" only when user flag in database change from Subscribed to Unsubscribed. If user try to hit unsubscribe link again it will not increment this counter anymore.

I hope this will help someone.

[anihil2]

Sorry with spamming with messages.

I installed this addon on vB version 4.2.3 Patch Level 2 without any issues.
I tried the same installation files on vB version 4.2.3 and it did install without any issues. But after I try to go to vbmail.php I get message:
"The vBMail product has been deactivated by an administrator."

Anyone know what might be wrong?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by anihil2

Sorry with spamming with messages.

I installed this addon on vB version 4.2.3 Patch Level 2 without any issues.
I tried the same installation files on vB version 4.2.3 and it did install without any issues. But after I try to go to vbmail.php I get message:
"The vBMail product has been deactivated by an administrator."

Anyone know what might be wrong?

This means the product has been disabled in the Product Manager in vBulletin.


Fillip

[tuRiver]

Does this mod add the ability to send weekly digest (with hot/top threads) etc.. ?

[ivanp]

vBulletin 4.2.5 reports "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method vB_DataManager::vB_DataManager()"

The following files should be changed:

dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_dm_keyword.php
dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_dm_feedback.php
dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_dm_message.php
dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_dm_mailinglist.php

FROM:

function vBMail_DataManager_Keyword(&$registry, $errtype = ERRTYPE_STANDARD)
{
        parent::vB_DataManager($registry, $errtype);

TO:

function __construct(&$registry, $errtype = ERRTYPE_STANDARD)
{
	parent::__construct($registry, $errtype);

[DragonByte Tech]

This has been resolved in the latest version @ our site, vB.org hasn't been updated yet.

Fillip