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Email reminder for inactive users · **Released**: 02-08-2007

Inactive reminder emails. This mod was designed to send out a reminder to inactive members to try and win them back.

***1.2.7 Update***
This update includes built in support for bouncing emails. The script will automatically detect the bounced mail, mark it as bounced so the user is not to be contacted again so as to avoid spam, and then move that user into a seperate usergroup. This plugin is still in it's testing stages, but I have addressed the bugs mentioned previously regarding the emailing side of things.

This is important so keep reading
To install this plugin and take advantage of the bounced email features you are going to need to follow these instructions very carefully. I can not gaurentee that they will work to the letter as this will be based on each persons individual hosting settings.

Step 1: Pre Install
Before you touch this product you need to do the following

Create an "inactive" usergroup
Set up a "bounce to" email address
Pick an email address that you want to use as your bounced email address. Im using "bounce@icora.co.uk". feel free to use whatever you wish.
Add a email message filter
This is the hard part. You need to set up a filter that will 'pipe' an email sent to the above email address.
I am using Cpanel 11 and this is how i have mine set up:
Rules: 'To' 'Equals' 'bounce@icora.co.uk'
Actions: 'Pipe to program' with the setting: |/usr/local/bin/php /home/icora/public_html/forum/bounce.php
This will depend entirely on your settings and structure so you may have to do a little research. It would be very helfull if people who have to use diferent configurations would post them on here.
Go into vBulletin options, and find the options for 'Emails'. there is a setting asking you if you want to use '-f'. set this to yes.
While still inn the email options set the 'Bounce Email Address' to your above address.

Step 2: Install
Remove all previous trace of this modification, and upload all the files in the "upload" folder to your base directory of the server.
Go into your product management section and add a new product. upload the XML file with overwrite selected.
Refresh your admin CP to load the new menu items. Just under the "users" group you will find an "Inactive Reminders" group. open that up and click on settings.
Play with these settings and options to suit for the most part. when you come down to the bounce settings you MUST use the same email address as the one you created above.
Set to active and save.

I must re-iterate that this version has not been widely tested, but the simulations i have ran have worked. I look forward to your feedback!

Features:

Select the period of time before a user is considered inactive.
Select how many emails to send to each inactive user per inactivity period
Choose weather inactivity is based on members "Last Post" or their "Last Visit"
Specify how often followup emails are sent
Specify alternative emails to send to reduce repetition
Keep a log of all inactive users contacted

Planned Updates:

More detail in reports
...such as
Which useres returned
Effectivness stats
Email validity

**1.2.1 Update***
Added more detail to the reports section. You can now see the email address, and quickly indicate which emails were invalid. You can link directly to that user to edit as you wish.
I have fixed some errors which have been crashing people's database. Please post any problems if you can.

**1.2.3 Update***
Fixed several problems with escaping strings
Stopped database errors locking up site
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**1.2.4 Update***
Added a "From Email" so you can specify your own email address to send the reminders from.
Fixed potential bug for people who do not use the mail queue.

Anyone having problems with sending emails out too fast, and multiple emails being sent need to consider changing their email settings in vbulletin options.
People with emails going out too fast - edit Number of Emails to Send Per Batch to a lower amount
People with multiple emails sending - edit Use Mailqueue System to "Yes, with locking"
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**1.2.5 Update***
Added more stats in the reports page, also added a "Send test email" option so users can test the functionality of the mod
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Luky · #**242** 03-11-2007, 10:17 PM

Please add an option for the admin e-mail thing..

Smoothie · #**243** 03-12-2007, 01:03 AM

Ok, I'm editing this post because I've been doing some testing and I seem to have a problem. The email isn't always getting sent. I've narrowed it down to the cron not running. If I click run now, it seems to send the email. If I let it run by itself, it's not sending. I have the dron set to run every 30 minutes.

thincom2000 · #**244** 03-12-2007, 06:44 AM

This hack brings back at least 1 member PER cron run. ^_^

However, these email reminders are being bounced when sent to users with AOL email addresses. You may need to work on the headers to get past AOL's bouncer, because I have not had issues sending my newsletters to these same addresses.

Smoothie · #**245** 03-12-2007, 08:45 AM

Update: Seems to sending fine now.

C Braithwaite · #**246** 03-12-2007, 09:10 AM

I'm really not sure about the cron logs - way out of my depth on that one. maybe it's something small i have missed out?

C Braithwaite · #**247** 03-12-2007, 09:39 AM

fixed

kingvillain · #**248** 03-12-2007, 10:23 AM

Thanks for the update

Smoothie · #**249** 03-12-2007, 01:01 PM

Woo-Hoo!

Luky · #**250** 03-12-2007, 01:13 PM

Blonx Lol R U Teh Spammar?!?!1

djbaxter · #**251** 03-12-2007, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luky

Blonx Lol R U Teh Spammar?!?!1

Huh?

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