Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [DBTech] vBMail v2 (vB4)

vBMail: What is it?
vBMail is a professional mailing list mod with Bounced Mail handling and advanced subscription management features.

Uses

vBMail is the perfect solution for any forum who wish to send out large quantities of mail to users on a mailing list. It lets admins and users have fine-grained access to subscriptions, and also automatically handles bounced mail.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features:

Bounced Mail Handling: Once configured, it will (if so desired) automatically track and handle bounced mail. Alternatively, you can manually handle bounced mail if you so wish.

Automatic "Unsubscribe" Link Creation: If the user receiving the mail has access to unsubscribing, a secure link to unsubscribe themselves from the mailing list will be automatically added to the bottom of the mail. It does not require the user to be logged in, so it complies with spam policies set forth by mail providers.

Mail History: Each past sent mail can be viewed at any time from the front-end.

Advanced Subscription Management: Users can quickly and easily (un)subscribe from the mailing list via the mailing list directory, or the admin can manually change the subscription status in the AdminCP.

Bounced Mail Threshold: When an admin-configured number of mails bounce from the same email address, the user is automatically removed from mailing lists and all other email-related vBulletin features, and notified via PM what happened to their account, as well as directions to change their email addresses.

Complete Feature List (Lite)

• Mailing List Directory
  • List all mailing lists
  • Links to send mail / view mail history / (un)subscribe
  • Unsubscription stats
• Send Mail
  • Uses the full editor in vBulletin
  • Works with 4.1.4's CKEditor
  • Uses vBulletin's Mail Queue system to avoid overloading servers / avoid "maximum mails per hour" server restrictions
• Mail History
  • Displays a list of all mail from that mailing list
  • View the mail in full HTML
  • Unsubscription stats
• (Un)subscribe
  • One-click to add or remove from a mailing list
• AdminCP
  • Create unlimited mailing lists with per-list usergroup permissions
  • Create keywords for people to subscribe to
  • View list of bounced mail
  • Prune list of bounced mail
  • Permissions for who can view unsubscription stats
• Scheduled Tasks
  • Hourly collection of bounced mail
  • Hourly checks for number of bounces above the threshold

Complete Feature List (Pro)

• Send Mail
  • Subscribe to an external mailing list via the vBulletin Sidebar (vB4 only)
  • Override SMTP settings per mailing list
• AdminCP
  • Ability to create External mailing lists, powered by emails not found in vBulletin user accounts

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[daimpa]

Hi, I've a huge problem with bounced mails. Now I'm in the blacklist for spam Is this mod the solution to bouncing email? I've thousand of these:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  ilgabbiano24.pt@gmail.it
    SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<ilgabbiano24.pt@gmail.it>:
    host mx1.gmail.it [84.19.190.13]: 550 5.1.1 <ilgabbiano24.pt@gmail.it>:
    Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table

[DragonByte Tech]

This mod will indeed handle those kind of emails

You don't have to use the Mailing List component in order to take advantage of bounced mail handling either


Fillip

[Stevenwi]

Installed

[Marv]

Fillip,

this is great mod. No need to care about bounced eMails anymore!
But may I make 2 suggestions?

On my forums I have several people which just ignore to update their eMail-adresses. Shouldn?t bother me. But it does. Couldn?t you add an option to change the owner of a bounced mail to the usergroup 3? So they would be forced to put in a valid adress instead of their bounced ones.

I don?t make use of the mailing lists. There is just no use on my forums for them and I?ve only installed vbMail for having that neat little bouncehandling
I?ve noticed that there are two new buttons in the usercp?s, related to the mailing lists and people are asking me, what the heck this should be and I have to say nothing you should care about. Guess I?m not the only one with that. May be you could make the appearance in the usercp?s optional?

But, all in all, was a long time until somebody came up with a functional bouncehandler like this. Kudos, Fillip.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Marv

Fillip,

this is great mod. No need to care about bounced eMails anymore!
But may I make 2 suggestions?

On my forums I have several people which just ignore to update their eMail-adresses. Shouldn?t bother me. But it does. Couldn?t you add an option to change the owner of a bounced mail to the usergroup 3? So they would be forced to put in a valid adress instead of their bounced ones.

I don?t make use of the mailing lists. There is just no use on my forums for them and I?ve only installed vbMail for having that neat little bouncehandling
I?ve noticed that there are two new buttons in the usercp?s, related to the mailing lists and people are asking me, what the heck this should be and I have to say nothing you should care about. Guess I?m not the only one with that. May be you could make the appearance in the usercp?s optional?

But, all in all, was a long time until somebody came up with a functional bouncehandler like this. Kudos, Fillip.

Feature requests are best posted @ our forum (http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php) in the support forum for this mod, so that they're not lost to the mists of time here on vB.org



Fillip

[Marv]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Feature requests are best posted @ our forum (http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php) in the support forum for this mod, so that they're not lost to the mists of time here on vB.org

Fillip

Oh lord, another forum I have to register for? Mmpf...nah. I?m on so many forums, I could never visit them all in a days - and you are not sooo old, that you couldn?t remember this little feature request.

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But - as a little reminder, Fillip, ...I mean, just in case.. :
the two fields in the usercp are also visible in the profile tab "about me"

Erm..ehh..sorry, have to go

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Marv

Oh lord, another forum I have to register for? Mmpf...nah. I?m on so many forums, I could never visit them all in a days - and you are not sooo old, that you couldn?t remember this little feature request.

Please understand that at the time of writing, we have 106 releases here at vBulletin.org.

I don't think it would be reasonable to expect us to be able to keep track of multiple feature requests for 106 releases, especially considering it's likely to be several weeks, if not months, until we next release an update for vBMail.

My fridge is also not big enough to contain that many magnets - the downsides of being a bachelor

For this reason, we request that people post feature requests on our forum, as we have an issue tracking mod (that we released on vB.org as DragonByte vBForms) that will remember the threads and organise them by each release, so that we can quickly see what feature requests are outstanding.

Personally, I don't believe this is an unreasonable request. However, if you do, then I can absolutely respect that - but please do not expect your feature request to be taken into consideration as a result.

Thank you for your understanding


Fillip

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by Marv

Oh lord, another forum I have to register for?

Actually, you don't have to register anywhere.

But, you want something for free and you have a hard time registering (which is free and actually takes no more than a minute to do) on a forum? Well, it looks like you don't care about this feature request at all.

Which, of course, is completely fine.

[Marv]

May be my fault - but has the ironic part between the lines in my post above become some kind of lost in translation? Should be a joke, nothing more.

[meissenation]

edit: I'm an idiot -- apparently having the php_imap extension enabled would help *facepalm* :lol: