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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/

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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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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

The flag is working fine for me in my local test build, there's an update coming out today so maybe that'll fix it for you


Fillip

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

The flag is working fine for me in my local test build, there's an update coming out today so maybe that'll fix it for you


Fillip

Thanks Fillip I will wait for the update.

Just for clarification, in case I was not describing the issue properly.: When I create a newsletter it adds all registered users fine but anyone who registers on the site after the creation of the newsletter does not get added as subscribed.

[DragonByte Tech]

vBMail v1.1.3
Fix: Notification links should now hopefully work with vBSEO even when its "Rewrite Member URLs" setting set to No
Fix: Any un-recorded hotfixes since the last version released.
Change: You should now be able to change -some- permissions for usergroups that were previously unaccessible
Change: The products now support the Product URL and Version Check features of the vBulletin Product Manager

Fillip

[CharlieDelta]

Hi Fillip I applied the update and newly registered users are still not showing up in the subscribed list.

[DragonByte Tech]

They will not be retroactively added, so that's not unexpected


Fillip

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

They will not be retroactively added, so that's not unexpected


Fillip

I thought this might be the case.
So to make sure I get all new members added I have to constantly create new mailing lists. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of unsubscribing?

[DragonByte Tech]

No it doesn't mean that

You can try unticking default subscribed, saving, re-ticking it and saving again.

I added another hotfix just now to deal with email verification, as you never told me if you had that enabled so I forgot to check that, but I believe that should be working now


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

If you got a SQL error applying the previous hotfix, grab the new zip, as I updated part of the email verification code.

Fillip

[brandon515]

Does this mod create the newsletters for you...in other words, can you tell it to send the newsletters to include recent threads from specified forums?

Also, does it allow for scheduling...like send them every 7 days at a specified time?

Thanks

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

No it doesn't mean that

You can try unticking default subscribed, saving, re-ticking it and saving again.

I added another hotfix just now to deal with email verification, as you never told me if you had that enabled so I forgot to check that, but I believe that should be working now


Fillip

Thanks Fillip.
Unticking and saving the re-ticking worked.:up: I have not applied the hotfix yet however.
The answer is yes, I do require email confirmation.