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EPC vbMailer [LITE] All in ONE E-mail Solution
Version: 1.5, by blogtorank blogtorank is offline
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Category: Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Version: 3.6.8 Rating:
Released: 08-20-2007 Last Update: 08-30-2007 Installs: 94
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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:

Quote:
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:

Quote:
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

Quote:
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
    Code:
    \r\n = "<br>"
  • Few other snags cleaned up to put this to v1.5.

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No idea why it doesn't run, but as I understand it you can only check bounced addresses if you use smtp for sending.
v1.5 with a request you made will be coming and also, we will be releasing an upgrade to the respect to the issue you faced too, we have narrowed it down!
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i am curious... why does mine not run? i use sendmail, and i keep thinking it might be the scheduled tasks, though i might be wrong.

#-Campaigns-------------------#
2: Checking 'StoriesMania Weekly Newsletter 143'
2: Do not run yet


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

#-Bounces---------------------#
Could not login with

Done
If you are using just sendmail, then why do you have login information for smtp filled in?
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I'm not sure if this could be easily integrated, but there's a mod for inactive users, to where it sends out emails every day to people who've been inactive for x many days (here)...I thought it might be nice to have it along side this mod so that you can review the campaigns, see who's receiving emails and who's not. And for those that we can get in contact with at all, I guess we could move them to an inactive usergroup :P

It's just a thought, I can deal with having 2 separate mods
Very good idea to add-in, it falls within the e-mailing feature for sure! Notated for a future release here, as we do want to make an all-in-one system so you don't have to install 50 hacks in respect to one core element of e-mailing. Thanks for the suggestion.
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If you are using just sendmail, then why do you have login information for smtp filled in?
None of that filled in. Only the link tracking turned on.
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Well then it's all within your configuration of when you are sending and the times you have on your boards, and also as the error says, which we overlooked telling you:
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2: Do not run yet
All in all this means: "It's not time to send the campaign."
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Well then it's all within your configuration of when you are sending and the times you have on your boards, and also as the error says, which we overlooked telling you:

All in all this means: "It's not time to send the campaign."
yeah i kinda figured it was in the config. could it be the scheduled tasks? i am still not too sure how to configure that one.
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v1.5 with a request you made will be coming and also, we will be releasing an upgrade to the respect to the issue you faced too, we have narrowed it down!
Good - I hope it improves the situation.

The timezone issue in the date needs to be fixed as it is giving mail meesages a high Spam Assassin score (timezone is invalid). Our server is in a .5 timezone so I don't know if that is part of the problem or not.

There also seems to be an issue with sending plain text emails and receiving them as text on Outlook Express. Line breaks are not included, either when typing direct into the text area or when pasting text from a text editor. I have tested this with vbMailer on Mac and PC and it occurs on both.
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yeah i kinda figured it was in the config. could it be the scheduled tasks? i am still not too sure how to configure that one.
Here you go:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...ed_tasks_intro

Also, inside the task itself you'll see question marks for "Admin Help"
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Good - I hope it improves the situation.

The timezone issue in the date needs to be fixed as it is giving mail meesages a high Spam Assassin score (timezone is invalid). Our server is in a .5 timezone so I don't know if that is part of the problem or not.

There also seems to be an issue with sending plain text emails and receiving them as text on Outlook Express. Line breaks are not included, either when typing direct into the text area or when pasting text from a text editor. I have tested this with vbMailer on Mac and PC and it occurs on both.
Timezone is all setup on your mail server, admincp, the usercp. It sends out in respect to what you have configured there, it's not we modify the headers, it's your mail server itself.

Why not post a few examples here in a text file you are sending and I'll test it out on ours and use "OUTLOOK Express" normally your e-mail client is the issue on that on how things are displayed. Even look at the above example under our description of this mod to see a "plain text" and the outcome as "plain text"
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Another note, when settings for your "Spamassassin" You need to think about being conservative if you are running a online business because if you set it too hard that's to block out spam then the Bayes will be all thrown off as it learns these e-mails, if you are "testing" then you need to disable the spamassassin all together while "TESTING." Because we tested on yours with Subjects: lsjasfjsdhfsd and it came back as spam as you reported... You should see more on how to configure the Spamassassin to be more conservative here:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/...AskedQuestions

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/...gFpsForSenders

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/...resAreAssigned
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