EZ NewsLetter Emailer for vBulletin - Movie Preview

[Greg]

I was just bustin' your chops. Is it your sensitive day? Don't go getting all EMO on me now. But I do kinda like ya, so...

The opt in and out part is important. I forgot to add it and will. But there is code for the footer with opt out info.

And on that note... There needs to be separate settings then admin email. We don't want people turning off that arbitrarily because of a newsletter.

If we're gonna throw around the word ultimate, it's gotta be right. Thanks for the heads up.

[Greg]

I think I have the group selection and opt in/out problem solved.

I'm thinking the best scenario is a usergroup called newsletter opt in. If a member joins it, they get the news letter. If not, no news letter. But the option to blast to any usergroup will still exist.

I need some feedback on this on folks.

[Big Dan]

The usergroup option would work on boards without a lot of different user groups set up. On my board for instance I've got 4 primary user groups for members plus 2 publicly joinable. Adding an extra UG to the mix seems like extra work for the admin going back to double check permissions when adding private forums and such. Plus dealing with inherited UG permissions even with the newsletter UG being a secondary UG would be a pain for someone in my situation. I think all in all going the user group route would leave you will a support nightmare for users that don't understand how to properly use user groups, which is arguably one of the most complicated aspects of vB.

I'm in favor of the standard opt-out check box on edit options that other hacks like commbull employ.

[Big Dan]

PS: Why is firefox telling me I need WMP for this page?

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Deejay Dan

PS: Why is firefox telling me I need WMP for this page?

I embedded the original movie of the demo that is readable.

[Greg]

I had hoped for Friday and then in testing I saw some things that needed to be added now, not later. I sent a newsletter today and things looked good. I hope we can release Monday.

[Greg]

Cheaper then the others. We're looking to stay a bit under $30.00.

I have a email bounce management add on that we will include too for those that want it. When we implemented it and stopped our bounces, we found that the next time we sent a bulk email, they went right through because we had little to no bounced emails.

We also use SPF1 DNS Records to get our email through.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safe...nderid/wizard/
http://www.openspf.org/Project_Overview

[daPLAYBOY]

I've just received one of your EZ Newsletters which brings me here today, and I'm impressed by the professional look of it...well done! Hope I can get a copy for BETA testing!

[Greg]

Well, I'm certainly glad to see that it caused your first post, thank you. Welcome to the forum.

I need to put out a call for some testers. I need shared hosting, vps, linux, windows, and dedicated hosting situations for testing. I have a servint Signature VPS with qmail. So it's gotta be different then mine.

Just understand, I can't take on everyone that asks to beta test. References within my means will be checked on those that make the request.

Thanks.

Greg

[daPLAYBOY]

I'd be willing to help out with pleasure...here's what I'm running

Linux
Apache version 2.2.9 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.6

Br.