Administrative and Maintenance Tools - EPC vbMailer [LITE] All in ONE E-mail Solution

EPC vbMailer [LITE] for vBulletin

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(Not just a hack, just a HUGE expansion in getting your communication professionally delivered effectively and efficiently to your forums members)

Brief Introduction:

What we have here is an expansion of a lot of tools that deal with ?effective? communication with your forums members by and through the vBulletin forums system. As you know there are many modifications on the vBulletin.org website that?ll help you manage all of these means, some are lacking other essential needs or you are simply too tired to figuring out which one doesn?t work with what hack. Overall, we have built EPC vBMailer to be the overall and ONLY solution to your vBulletin e-mailing needs. Because you request it in here, we will build it without any questions!

After endless reading on the forums at vbulletin.org, we have found it to be a wise decision to release a LITE and a FULL version, basically a trial version before you buy? Where the trial will not ever end, it?s just a lighter version to the FULL version which has an extended amount of features in it that handles ALL of your e-mailing needs in one!


Core Feature List:

• Templates
  • Add templates
  • Edit templates
  • Delete templates
• Autoresponders
  • Add autoresponders
  • Edit autoresponders
  • Delete autoresponders
• Compose Email
  • Type an email, or
  • Use a template
  • Schedule when to send
• Bounce Management
  • Logs into your SMTP info
  • Inactivates bounced emails
  • Deletes bounced emails from server
• Settings
  • Easily edit vbMailer Settings inside your config file
  • FULL version has it all built into the /admincp/ with more support

Templates Overview

• Enter a subject, text email and HTML email to easily send them out on-the-fly later
• Templates, like anything else in vbMailer, support variables

Autoresponder Overview

• Setup autoresponder sequences to automatically send out emails
• Very powerful for those of you who want to seamlessly and automatically advertise your forums, or give your users a friendly "nudge" to come back
• Yep, autoresponders support variables too

Compose Email Overview

• Choose a previously created template or enter a subject, text and HTML email
• Choose a time to run the campaign, allowing you to schedule the campaign for whenever you want

(meaning you can setup that advertisement email to run while you are on vacation, phew!)

• And did I mention, composing an email directly also supports variables

Review Campaigns Overview:

• Track how each of your campaigns is doing, by looking at how many emails were SENT, FAILED and READ
• Delete any upcoming campaigns

Bounce Management Overview:

• No more annoying bounce emails filling your Inbox
• Every time the cron runs, it automatically sets the email status to inactive on any bounced emails
• PM sent to user to update his/her e-mail address!

Example of a log when one is bounced:

Email sent [sadfjasdfj2234rr32ff@email.com] using [smtp]

#-Bounces---------------------#
Connected to mail.mydomainhere.com
Logged in as username@mydomainhere.com
Fetched message list

Found bounce [sadfjasdfj2234rr32ff@email.com]
sadfjasdfj2234rr32ff@email.com: Email inactivated
sadfjasdfj2234rr32ff@email.com: Bounce email deleted

Connection closed

Done

EPC vbMailer Variables Overview:

Although you can use anything in the 'user' table as a template variable, the most useful are provided in this list:
[userid]
[username]
[email]
[homepage]
[icq]
[aim]
[yahoo]
[msn]
[skype]
[posts]
[ipaddress]
[pmtotal]
[pmunread]
[warnings]

EPC vbMailer Variables Test Email

So basically you would setup and form e-mail going out to all as an example:

Dear [username],

Today it has come to our attention your posts total today are [posts] posts on the forums.

Total warnings you have on file are [warnings] warnings!

You have a total of [pmtotal] PM?s inside your inbox on the forums, also do note that you have a total of [pmunread] unread PM?s

Your webpage is located at: [homepage]

On file we have the following Instant Messengers:

ICQ: [icq]
AIM: [aim]
YAHOO: [yahoo]
MSN: [msn]
SKYPE: [skype]

Your User ID, which is a number and can be found to be as follows: [userid]

Your sign-up IP address was: [ipaddress]

Best regards,
EPC vbMailer and Team

EPC vbMailer Outcome E-mail

Enough of that one, below you?ll see the outcome of the e-mail:

Dear BillyBoyGates,

Today it has come to our attention your posts total today are 0 posts on the forums.

Total warnings you have on file are 0 warnings!

You have a total of 0 PM?s inside your inbox on the forums, also do note that you have a total of 0 unread PM?s

Your webpage is located at: http://www.billyboygates.com/

On file we have the following Instant Messengers:

ICQ: 999999
AIM: bloggermania
YAHOO: yahoosucks@yahoo.com
MSN: billyboygates@hotmail.com
SKYPE: skyperockstotally

Your User ID, which is a number and can be found to be as follows: 1

Your sign-up IP address was: 131.0.12.125

Best regards,
EPC vbMailer and Team

You can unsubscribe at any time by visiting the forums where this was sent from and requesting not to receive emails from administrators any more.

http://www.yourforums.com/forums2

Conclusion:

You have installed at LEAST 5+ separate hacks to mount up to what we just created but coded you here in the LITE version, do note this, in the FULL version for less than a happy meal you will have even more flexibility. Whether you wanted to run a newsletter, or send out a series of e-mails (autoresponders) or simply schedule the sending times and letting EPC vbMailer will do it for you seamlessly.

In the LITE version, you will need to note, there is a set limit on how many e-mails that can be sent out due to the core of the LITE wasn?t designed to handle UNLIMITED.

Make sure you check it out in the LITE first to see if this is something you would like, with full SUPPORT too you if you clicked install. Bottom line, we are just happy to accommodate anyone and everyone.

How do I get support?

Also comes with a 22 page End-User Documentation, all clean and sectioned out for you in PDF. Make sure you have Adobe READER v6+ not a RIPPER

Support is given to those who click INSTALL...

However if you have questions before installing do let us know, we have tested this on 3.6.8, and if you have a forums that is prior, please let us know if this works and report this here! Others will appreciate it a lot.

All support for the LITE version will be held here only if you click install, and if you purchase the full version all support is handled in the order received by our full-time reps in the CSC, NO support is held here for the FULL version!

So here's the LITE version and it comes with a full set of instructions and if you require any assistance on how to find feeds and what places are best for feeds, do post them in here.

Also if you post anything in here that has NOTHING to do with the hack and support, question related issues, i.e. Starting drama on anything not related to this hack, "it is no good", "I guess this will ruin this", and blah blah, keep your drama out please!

Copyright

/*
Please do not remove this Copyright notice.
As you see this is a free script accordingly under GPL laws and you will see
a license attached accordingly to GNU.
You may NOT rewrite another hack and release it to the vBulletin.org community or ELSEWHERE using this code without our permission due to the fact we have a full version and this full version is a paid version, as this version will differ but some
of the logistics are the same. So do NOT try to release a hack using any part of our code without written permission from us!
Copyright 2007, BlogToRank
*/

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Change Log


#--------------v1.1-LITE--------------#

• 'Unique reads' statistic addition, no charts
  • vs. FULL 'Unique reads' & 'Link clicks', charts
• Attachment via compose email only
  • vs. FULL Saved attachments via templates, autoresponders or compose email
• Bounced emails set all communication via e-mail options to inactive
  • vs. FULL Bounced emails set all options to inactive & PMs user
• No link tracking
  • vs. FULL Link tracking and 'Link clicks' statistic

#--------------v1.2-FULL--------------#

• Campaign deletion
• Choose user group to send to
• Bounced email admin notification (Sent to admin PM)
• HTML/Text user option (Under User CP and upon user registration and is REQUIRED at registration)

#--------------v1.2-LITE--------------#

• Campaign deletion
• Bounced email user notification (previously only in FULL)

#--------------v1.2.3-LITE--------------#

• Fixed a security vulnerability to our the tracker and the /admincp/vbmailer.php
• Fixed a bug within our product install. (Recommend you do a fresh install of this product file)
• Fixed a few other minor things and we highly recommend a download and update immediately.

#--------------v1.5-LITE--------------#

• Fixed a hanging process within the Send E-Mail by the RUN Now being processed
• Added the Signature Line to be manually modified within the settings of LITE and FULL version
• Update to the nl2br to fix broken issues with Outlook Express of receiving text e-mails, because Microsoft decided to NOT respect the \r\n format, so it's known as the nl2br

  \r\n = "<br>"

• Few other snags cleaned up to put this to v1.5.

[AzzidReign]

These guys don't know wth they are doing.

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

Ok, so then I do want to set up the SMTP? Now how would I go about doing that...sorry, I'm newb when it comes to the mail clients and setting up things like that and outlook lol. And would I have to have it log into my main gmail account or will it be able to log into my @se7ensins.com account via my gmail :S grr, so confused.

Here you go using Google's SMTP for vbMailer as follows:

Username: Enter your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com)

Password: This is your gmail password...

Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com

Learn more on how to setup here:

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/...n&answer=12103

I hope this helps ya out and any others!

[blogtorank]

One more thing to note, you have to turn Forwarding / POP3 on inside Gmail, go to your Settings inside your Gmail account and see this tab: Forwarding and POP

Make sure you have this enabled to use this feature! (In Yahoo you have to pay for this feature )

Edit:

Some may have issues with the logging into gmail, but make sure your firewalls allow the following ports per Google:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=13287

[blogtorank]

This one is mainly for Church and his suggestions:

Nice add-ons and fixes for improvement added today: vbmailer v1.2 is released and ready for download!

Come get your updates and the below NEW Features added:

#-vbMailer-v1.2-LITE-Features---#

x Campaign deletion
x Bounced email user notification (previously only in FULL)

#-vbMailer-v1.2-FULL-Features---#

x Campaign deletion
x Choose user group to send to
x Bounced email admin notification (Sent to admin PM)
x HTML/Text user option (Under User CP and upon user registration and is REQUIRED at registration)

[Splinter77]

very very well congratulation boy
by Italy admin xbox-inf.org

[Inkybro]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

This one is mainly for Church and his suggestions:

Nice add-ons and fixes for improvement added today: vbmailer v1.2 is released and ready for download!

Come get your updates and the below NEW Features added:

#-vbMailer-v1.2-LITE-Features---#

x Campaign deletion
x Bounced email user notification (previously only in FULL)

#-vbMailer-v1.2-FULL-Features---#

x Campaign deletion
x Choose user group to send to
x Bounced email admin notification (Sent to admin PM)
x HTML/Text user option (Under User CP and upon user registration and is REQUIRED at registration)

Church, let us know what you think when you get a chance to check it out.

[AzzidReign]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

This one is mainly for Church and his suggestions:

Nice add-ons and fixes for improvement added today: vbmailer v1.2 is released and ready for download!

Come get your updates and the below NEW Features added:

#-vbMailer-v1.2-LITE-Features---#

x Campaign deletion
x Bounced email user notification (previously only in FULL)

#-vbMailer-v1.2-FULL-Features---#

x Campaign deletion
x Choose user group to send to
x Bounced email admin notification (Sent to admin PM)
x HTML/Text user option (Under User CP and upon user registration and is REQUIRED at registration)

Sweet! I was also wanting a few of those features! Once I get everything situated on my server end I'll be sure to let you guys know how it all goes

[AzzidReign]

I have a new suggestion now.

When you go to fill out the SMTP information, can you make it so that the password shows up as asterisks? I'd rather my admins not have my personal login information XD

EDIT: I'm getting some stupid errors

EPC_vbMailer_Cron
#-Campaigns-------------------#
3: Checking 'Testing new email mod'
3: Run now
3: Email sent [******@fwcds.net] using [smtp]
3: Email sent [******@hotmail.com] using [smtp]
3: Email sent [*******@gmail.com] using [smtp]
3: Email sent [*******@gmail.com] using [smtp]
3: Email sent [******@hotmail.com] using [smtp]
3: Campaign ran


#-Autoresponders---------------#

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 500 seconds exceeded in /home/*******/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 856

That's what I get, though I've removed certain parts of that with ****. But this is my 3rd test. My first 2 tests were with my admin usergroup (the quoted above is testing my mods). 2 out of 4 emails sent to my admins on both admin tests. On this mod test, 5 out of 6 were sent out. I've tried to look through stuff but I can't find anything. I even upped the max exec. time for php files from 120 to 500 but I still get the same as setting it to 120.

EDIT: I figured it out! I know why it's timing out! All the people that aren't receiving the emails have the setting for RECEIVE EMAILS FROM ADMINS set to NO! Is there any way to make it skip them so it doesn't time out or some sort of work around for this...? B/c on this last test, one of my staff emails bounced so his email settings were set to off. So when I go to run this again, the script seems to get caught in a loop.


EDIT #2: Maybe I was wrong about that....I've set all my admins to working emails + they can receive emails from admins now. And I still get the same error:

#-Campaigns-------------------#
5: Checking 'Newsletter preview - to make sure it works'
5: Run now
5: Email sent [*****@gmail.com] using [smtp]
5: Email sent [*****@hotmail.com] using [smtp]
5: Email sent [*****@gmail.com] using [smtp]
5: Email sent [*****@gmail.com] using [smtp]
5: Campaign ran


#-Autoresponders---------------#

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 500 seconds exceeded in /home/****/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 856

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

I have a new suggestion now.

When you go to fill out the SMTP information, can you make it so that the password shows up as asterisks? I'd rather my admins not have my personal login information XD

EDIT: I'm getting some stupid errors



That's what I get, though I've removed certain parts of that with ****. But this is my 3rd test. My first 2 tests were with my admin usergroup (the quoted above is testing my mods). 2 out of 4 emails sent to my admins on both admin tests. On this mod test, 5 out of 6 were sent out. I've tried to look through stuff but I can't find anything. I even upped the max exec. time for php files from 120 to 500 but I still get the same as setting it to 120.

EDIT: I figured it out! I know why it's timing out! All the people that aren't receiving the emails have the setting for RECEIVE EMAILS FROM ADMINS set to NO! Is there any way to make it skip them so it doesn't time out or some sort of work around for this...? B/c on this last test, one of my staff emails bounced so his email settings were set to off. So when I go to run this again, the script seems to get caught in a loop.


EDIT #2: Maybe I was wrong about that....I've set all my admins to working emails + they can receive emails from admins now. And I still get the same error:

There seems to be a configuration on your server that's giving this much grief of killing off the script... I'll get with you and figure this out, did you update to v1.2 and this is on your main forums now and not the test forums? Also, I'll make you a special asterisks file just so you can blank out the password and get with you here shortly on gtalk.

Best regards!

[Inkybro]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

There seems to be a configuration on your server that's giving this much grief of killing off the script... I'll get with you and figure this out, did you update to v1.2 and this is on your main forums now and not the test forums? Also, I'll make you a special asterisks file just so you can blank out the password and get with you here shortly on gtalk.

Best regards!

Make sure your sleeper is off, because this may help or even solve the problem.

Check your vbMailer settings.