[Bouncer222]

The product is not mine so I can't offer any support for CommBull itself. However, Ihave been using the paid versions of this mod for some time and I'm happy to offer what support I can for making the changes necessary to get it running on 4.x.

So does it or does it not work on 4.0??

And can you please describe a little more what exactly it does?

Thanks

[djbaxter]

Answered in the first post:

Originally Posted by djbaxter

I have the previous (commercial) version, 4.5f, which does run successfully via a cron job, running on 4.01. It required some modification of the installation instructions but it does work. I expect you should be able to get this version running as well, although as the coder noted the cron capability won't work.

CommBull is a configurable newsletter for your forum, previously a commercial product but now released as a vBulletin.org add-on.

The changes from 4.5f to 5.1a are largely cosmetic, representing attempts by the original author to include the forum styling in the newsletter across a wide variety of email clients and configurations. I don't need that since for me the forum styling was already working.

I did install version 5.x at one point but reverted to 4.5f because of the absence of the capability to send the newsletters out via a cron job.

I believe the changes I made for 4.5f should allow you to install version 5.1a on vBulletin 4.x.

For more details about CommBull 5.1a, see the thread at http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=230359

[Alfa1]

Does this work with group, blog, CMS content or does it solely handle forum content?

[djbaxter]

I've only recently upgraded to the vBulletin 4.01 Suite from the 3.84 forum only. At the moment, the blog is disabled because I'm still trying to figure out how to and how I want to configure the CMS... some real documentation would be nice!

So I can't tell you about the blog. However, the last newsletter sent out by my forum picked up articles from the CMS as well as forum threads, so I don't know of any reason it wouldn't also get the blog entries.

[Alfa1]

That sounds very interesting. I cant find anything about handling bounces. Does commbull do that?

[djbaxter]

No. You'll need another system to take care of that.

[Alfa1]

Ah too bad. Unfortunately there is no fully functional system for that.

[djbaxter]

At one point, I was successful in integrating the EZ Bounce add-on with CommBull but then I upgraded CommBull and couldn't recall how I'd done it previously.

[Hornstar]

Thats a bummer as I would have loved this if it had the bounced email functionality...

[Dr.osamA]

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[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

At one point, I was successful in integrating the EZ Bounce add-on with CommBull but then I upgraded CommBull and couldn't recall how I'd done it previously.

EZ bounce is great, as its the only option to counter bounced emails. But it still implies handling thousands of bounces, one by one, after each mailing.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

EZ bounce is great, as its the only option to counter bounced emails. But it still implies handling thousands of bounces, one by one, after each mailing.

When you first implement a bounceback strategy, yes... but it needs to be a strategy where members with bouncebacks due to invalid email addresses are moved to a separate member group (I call mine Inactive). Then, when the newsletter goes out, the Inactive group is not included in the mailing list.

Once you have that set up and working, the effort to maintain it is minimal. Now I get a few bouncebacks each week and I change the usergroups for those members to Inactive if the bounceback reason is "no such address" or "no account for that user". This takes perhaps 5 minutes at most.

[fourat]

thank you
if i uninstall the mod is DB Changes stay in my forum's DB ?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by fourat

thank you
if i uninstall the mod is DB Changes stay in my forum's DB ?

It should, yes. Support for the original mod is at http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=230359