[Plugin] Mail Sender

[sam2kb]

This plugin allows you to send emails to registered users.
You can exclude users and groups, specify message encoding, send as text or/and HTML, attach files and receive detailed reports on selected email.

Advanced users can use external emails table.

Download v0.6

If you can't send emails or your users don't receive them, set the $debug value either to 1, 2 or 3 on line 61 and post the output in this thread.

[tilqicom]

[sam2kb]

[adriscoll]

sam,

this is great. I have a question on the plugin settings vs the script. If i want to contact user_level (i have too many users to contact by unique id, and no real groups established), then I:

1. assume i can change user id to user_leve in the hackfile

Also, I wanted to find out how the hack interprets the settings on the plugin. If I have the plugin set to exclude a group per the field, but want to contact them later, do i have to change that or does the file supercede the settings?

basically, I am not so bright, and just want to know how to best run this thing. and where from.

[sam2kb]

Hi adriscoll

You should use the plugin, it's much better than mail sender hack. By default the plugin sends emails to all users, there's no need to list user IDs.

[adriscoll]

Sam,

this is an awesome thing. used it recently, so i have some feedback for you:

1. when i send, it sends double emails to each user. not a disaster, but annoying in the long run

2. on the plugin settings, it mentions i can exclude users, but they still got the email

Other than that, I am excited to see it's further development. As b2evo becomes more popular and in more sites, especially large networks like mine, communication is key.

thanks again

[mochababy]

i don't know what i might be doing wrong but it's sending the e-mails that i try to send out with no html formatting. I know i have the html box clicked but it has no formatting not even breaks. Is there something that forgot to change along the way?

[sam2kb]

Thank you all for feedbacks. I'll try to fix the plugin in next few days.

[mochababy]

nothing's happened? I was hoping you would have time to work on it...but i'll see if i can try a couple of things myself and see if i can fix the issues i'm having and if i'm lucky i will keep you posted and show the code adjustments here.

[sam2kb]

Actually the new version with reports and attachments is done, but I've no time to upload it

[sam2kb]

Plugin updated.
The main new feature is file attachments, but there are some bug fixes also

[fugfuggy]

Hi Sam,

First, this is a great little plugin. It all works well except for the attachment upload.

Here is the error message:

Total attachments size should not exceed 0Mb!

Which I assume is triggered by

load_funcs( 'tools/model/_system.funcs.php' );
if( ($this->get_total_size() + $_FILES['uploadfile']['size']) > (system_check_memory_limit()*1024) )
{ // PHP may run out of memory if attachments size >= PHP memory_limit
$Messages->add( sprintf( $this->T_('Total attachments size should not exceed %sMb!'), number_format( system_check_memory_limit()/1024, 0 ) ), 'error' );
return false;
}

in _mail_sender.plugin.php


This is from the system tab

PHP upload_max_filesize
48M
PHP post_max_size
48M
post_max_size should be larger than upload_max_filesize
PHP memory_limit
n.a.
PHP mbstring extension
Loaded
PHP XML extension
Loaded

I have tried with different file types, none larger than 20kb. It fails when hitting "attach plugin" or if I just browse for the file and then hit "send"

What could be causing this?

Also, a couple of suggestions for the next update

1) Need more than one global send mail setting i.e. Admin's can mail to any group while others can mail to limited groups.

2) Check boxes showing groups rather than having to exclude group and user ids.

[sam2kb]

Welcome to the forums.

The error comes from PHP memory_limit n.a.. For some reason the plugin can't check the memory limit and "think" that it's 0.

You can safely change that line from

[fugfuggy]

[activator]

Hi guys,

I have installed the plugin but it didn't work for me. I don't know why!

my b2evo is 2.4.5 at: www.shafey.net

it gives me a message saying 0 successful. can u help me out???