Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Commbull (Community Bulletin) 5.1b

Community Bulletin:

This mod grabs all the latest information in your forum (posts, threads, events, birthdays, etc) and puts them into a newsletter to be sent to all your members that subscribe.

This mod has been around a long time and gone through many versions. It has been a paid version for a number of years with great success, but it's time to pass on the reigns.

[edit Feb 03, 2011]
Attempted fix for sending to users that are part of multiple user groups

[installation]
- upload some files
- upload the product.xml
- make 1 mod to the usercp options template
- FULL DETAILS in the README.txt

[note] many people ask why all the images, etc don't show up in the HTML version of what is in your forum. This is because most mail clients strip out the CSS and vbulletin is 99% CSS. I have created an HTML version that is nice and clean, but is forum independent. If you know what you are doing, you can edit this HTML file and build your own newsletter.

[grandeur_69]

i can only suggest watching vb's mailqueue table and your server logs when sending it out to try and determine where the problem might be. If it's looping through and showing that the mail is being sent out to each user, i'm not sure where the problem might be.

[Artes_Marciales]

Thanks!!! : )

[Sunray]

Thanks for your reply grandeur_69 !
It seems the mails are being sent out but not to each member. if several members are in multi usergroups do they can receive also the newsletter or it is necessary to they have only one usergroup ?
Cordially

[SilverBoy]

thanks for this nice and useful hack.

I have a problem

in setting section when I select for "Only include threads that have been started or replied to since this date?" as yes, I get in the newsletter a thread older than the date I selected.

any help?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

in setting section when I select for "Only include threads that have been started or replied to since this date?" as yes, I get in the newsletter a thread older than the date I selected.

The thread may be older but when was the last post in the thread?

[SilverBoy]

the last post old to, I choose date as 1-11-2010 and I get threads with last post at 2005 !!

[roymogg]

Originally Posted by Sunray

Hi,

Thanks for this great mod very useful.

I have installed it on vB 4.0.5 boad and send my first community newsletter to the admins for test. We received it. Then I sent it to all my members but unfortunately nobody received it.

I didn't changed any other options exepted the selection of usergroups.
Does somebody have had the same problem and can help me please ?

Thanks in advance

Cordially

I re-installed the mod on my 4.08 board and created a bulletin - I have been using it for about two years and installed the latest version etc. Sending to admins works fine but when I select 'registered users' for example and activate the send procedure the procedure loops on page 0 of 12 and keeps repeating the first 300 users - it does not advance to the next page. I disabled the mod (if there is any other way to stop this running please advise) in the plugin manager but have already sent out a pile of bulletins repeatedly to this user group.

They each got about 20 copies so I am not very popular!

Has anyone had a similar problem and if so how did you resolve it?

cheers

Roy

[SilverBoy]

no advices to solve my problem?

[Warlord]

This. Is. Awesome.

*installed*

[waelmagdy]

this hack makes a bad impact on the mail server use it with cushion especially if you have less than vps server or if you have a lot of members with wrong or bad e-mails