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.

[JirQUEST]

I created a ticket about 3-4 hours ago. No response still, though I hadn't given any of you superadmin yet. So what now? I create another ticket?

[RaceJunkie]

Does this keep an archive of newsletters sent for future reading?

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by JirQUEST

I created a ticket about 3-4 hours ago. No response still, though I hadn't given any of you superadmin yet. So what now? I create another ticket?

You never answered the ticket and one of our staff here asked you for superadmin status to see, and you just posted a response in there about your script timing out all in all because your php.ini settings are set to 30 seconds....

Originally Posted by RaceJunkie

Does this keep an archive of newsletters sent for future reading?

No not now, but how would that benefit a community and how would you like this shown up and where within your vBulletin script...

[RaceJunkie]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

No not now, but how would that benefit a community and how would you like this shown up and where within your vBulletin script...

Also check out how the news letters are archived here

Attached is a copy of the newsletter how it arrives in my in box.

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by RaceJunkie

Also check out how the news letters are archived here

Attached is a copy of the newsletter how it arrives in my in box.

This is your inbox within your PM correct? Ours sends directly to their e-mails on file within the user db, however this is a great concept and nice add to place in our program, thanks for the suggestion there, and if you would like to elaborate a bit more on it feel free to do so. Only make a better product if we get your feedback

[RaceJunkie]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

This is your inbox within your PM correct? Ours sends directly to their e-mails on file within the user db, however this is a great concept and nice add to place in our program, thanks for the suggestion there, and if you would like to elaborate a bit more on it feel free to do so. Only make a better product if we get your feedback

No this is not my Pm box it's my email, register on the site it's almost time for a new one.

Another shot added

[blogtorank]

Signed up and thanks, very good and informational forums by the way!

[lafactory.com]

it's a nice software and I am glad I bought it, but please, please, we need you ton integrate it with the vbulletin language manager in order to translate it. I can't even edit directly the english signature.

[iogames]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

Yeah well this sort of support from member's like you are great!!!

So finding the problem of Zend and IONCUBE can cause a lot of problems, as you had vbseo installed and the Zend version with it. So as a note to anyone that has issues with IONCUBE and Zend, you can simply just add a Zend Extension to your php.ini as an example:

See the first line? I installed ioncube to a folder under Zend and took it from there by adding the line zend_extension = /usr/local/Zend/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_4.4.so

Which he had this error when viewing our mod:

Overall in layman's terms, IT WORKS!

Anyhow great to know that we are doing great for you. If you require anything else feel free to let us know.

I ask 'how' you say 'there' and I'm supposed to know 'how'...

1. How do I add this function
2. Which application do I use
3. Where in the php.ini do I place this

[blogtorank]

You need to download the loaders from IONCUBE's website that fit your server's OS to anywhere within your server.

Create a zend_extension within your php.ini file as it shows above that I posted to the proper loader for your PHP version.

Basically that's about it! How you do it and how it's all done should be on your sysadmin, they don't have this installed on there?

Typical x86 *nix setup with Zend under /usr/local/:

# php -v
~ cd /usr/local/Zend/
~ wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader...lin_x86.tar.gz
~ tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
~ cd ioncube
~ ls -la
~ vi /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini
~ /etc/init.d/httpd restart

That's how I do it within SSH, hope this helps! So it's actually pretty easy if you know anything of SSH