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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

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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

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

You can't just like that change the way it works. And it really has strange set of rules by default. You need to work really hard on all rules to get it working without problems on site like DBTech's (they had need for many things in posts, like php code, html code, paths to directories (linux or more rarely windows)).

All in all, mod security is more of a hindrance than security. Of course, someone who took really long time maybe can found set of rules that would give additional security without blocking genuine people posting their problems.

You are so right. I lost count of how many hours I sat staring at the live ModSec log view when we recently switched servers and installed the new version of cPanel that had built-in ModSec support instead of it being something the host controlled via their Managed Hosting option.

That was like 5-6 months ago.

I'd say our rule set is pretty stable right now though, the message Doug tried to post was quite specific and I can't say I blame them for thinking it was suspicious (sorry Doug! It's that trench coat and the blackened sunglasses, you do look a bit shifty... ).

That being said, by default ModSec appears to come with rules that are only suitable for sites that offer absolutely no user input whatsoever, which is rare these days.


Fillip

[BadgerDog]

Well, we could spend a lot of time here talking about security, but I'd prefer some help getting my site live again with the paid version of vBmail.

As requested, I left the information I think you require as a PM on your site and I've been standing by, so let me know what else you need. Thanks ..

Tangential to vBmail crashing our site on upgrade, I also thought that while waiting, I'd do some cleanup of other mods not being used. One of those is free version of Dragonbyte Gallery, which when I clicked UN-install also crashed with an error, interestingly enough, pointing to vBmail., which is why I'm raising it here in this thread.

I simply wanted to un-install Dragonbyte Gallery, so I selected the un-install option under plugins...

• Deleted CMS Widget: Dragonbyte Gallery
• Reverted Table: user
• Reverted Table: usergroup
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_albums
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_categories
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_cat_subscribers
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_comments
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_cust_fields
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_favorites
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_images
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_instances
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_modules
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_rating
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_user_subscribers
• Deleted Table: dbtech_gallery_views
Rebuild Style Information
Updating style information for each style

<snip for privacy> all template un-install updates went fine and said DONE at the end

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /usr/www/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/includes/block/dbtech_vbmail_form.php on line 124

I have no idea why these two products would be co-dependent (cross marketing?), but I've also left you a PM to get some help fixing that which went wrong during a simple clicking of Dragonbyte Gallery un-install button.

Regards,
Doug

[DragonByte Tech]

The vBMail upgrade went fine, I suspect that also takes care of the block issue since that was most likely caused by the same corrupted upload


Fillip

[Wir3tap]

On Vbulletin 4.2.3 got this on importing of XML:
XML Error: Processing Instruction not finished at Line 205

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Wir3tap

On Vbulletin 4.2.3 got this on importing of XML:
XML Error: Processing Instruction not finished at Line 205

Hi there,

What version of PHP are you running?


Fillip

[Anders64]

Im getting this erro upon first install, what am i doing wrong?

/home/ddcdcdc/www/forums/dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Anders64

Im getting this erro upon first install, what am i doing wrong?

/home/ddcdcdc/www/forums/dbtech/vbmail/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!

Upload the contents of the upload folder to your forums folder, not the upload folder itself.


Fillip

[keyla31]

Does this deal with bounces from the other emailing systems in vbulletin? I have a newsletter that gors out that gets a lot of bounces, will it deactivate those that bounces as well?

[keyla31]

I have 50000 users is there any fast way to add them all to the email list?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by keyla31

Does this deal with bounces from the other emailing systems in vbulletin? I have a newsletter that gors out that gets a lot of bounces, will it deactivate those that bounces as well?

It won't unsubscribe from other email systems, sorry

Originally Posted by keyla31

I have 50000 users is there any fast way to add them all to the email list?

You can use the Default Subscribed flag


Fillip