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Version: 4.1.7.0, by Paul M Paul M is offline
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Category: Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Version: 4.1.x Rating:
Released: 12-29-2009 Last Update: 05-23-2012 Installs: 190
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This modification has been withdrawn.
vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x are no longer supported.

The feature is already built into the core vBulletin 4.2.x code.
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In default vBulletin, if you send a large number of e-mails, vbulletin either puts them in it's queue and attempts to send them as each user visits a page, or just simply tries to send them straight away (as is the case when you use the Administrators email users inteface).

The result of this can be that your server can gets seriously overloaded very quickly - or on many hosts, you get banned for exceeding their e-mail sending limits. This can make sending several thousand e-mails (like a newsletter) very difficult.

This modification helps in three ways ;

1. The processing of the mail queue is set-up as a vbulletin cron item.

2. You can add a small delay before each e-mail is sent (0,1,2 or 5 seconds).

3. E-mails from the ACP inteface are sent to the mail queue, not straight to the mail system.

Use option 2 carefully, otherwise you will slow your e-mail system right down.

For this to work, you must use e-mail queuing (ACP Options - Use Mailqueue System = Yes) and also the 'Number of Emails to Send Per Batch' needs to be a realistic value (see below). The installation process will attempt to set these options for you. This modification also requires two file edits to work correctly.

There are two options for the cron job, you can either set it to run every minute, and set the items to be processed to something small (like 10), or you can do what this modification does by default and set it to run every 10 minutes, and set the items to be processed to something larger (like 80, which is the default).

Remember, 10 e-mails per minute = 600 per hour while 80 e-mails every 10 minutes is 480 per hour. The numbers you set really depend on how quick you want large queues processed, and how much your mail server can handle in one go. The default settings are fine for most people.

Once working, when using the ACP mail users inteface, remember you can set it to process 9999 at once (not 500) as the mails will now go into the queue, not be sent directly.

Note: This modification will only affect queued e-mails such as subscription e-mails. It will not affect registration e-mails as they always bypass queuing.

This modification also displays the size of the e-mail queue in the ACP homepage, based on code supplied by Antivirus.

To install, download and uzip the files, then follow the instructions in the text file.


History:

v4.0.1 : 30-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

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Old 12-31-2009, 02:31 PM
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Glad this one was updated!
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awesome
I have vb3.7 but expected to fing the suitable version in related mods
and that what happened
thanks a lot
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WHY isn't this a part of the vBulletin package? I can't run my site without this mod.
Really appreciate your mod Paul.
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Installed and i couldnt find in admin cp
ACP Options - Use Mailqueue System
where its is?
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ACP > Options > Email Options.
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This is the most utility mod in this forum All the server not dedicated will not send more of 400 email in 1 hour!

GREAT job Paul M
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Hi guys can anybody help me get this mod running im having trouble placing the code in functions.php i keep getting errors and everybody seems to have no problem installing i just want to know what i am doing wrong please.
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Its impossible to help you unless you give some clues, like what errors you get, and what text editor you are using.
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Its impossible to help you unless you give some clues, like what errors you get, and what text editor you are using.
hi paul im using dreamweaver i am attaching some screenshots to give you some idea of what is going on image 002 is before i input the code 001 is code installed and 003 is after i upload it to my server am i even putting this code in the right place ? thanx.
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You are not editing the correct place.

The instructions say ;

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exec_mail_queue();
You are editing ;

Quote:
function exec_mail_queue()
Thats why you are failing.
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