[Logician]

Very nice idea! Thanks for sharing!

[Man1c M0g]

Does this hack allow you to send HTML-based Newsletters, and can it send to members of a secondary usergroup? Because those abilities would be ULTRA useful!

[silurius]

Originally Posted by Man1c M0g

Does this hack allow you to send HTML-based Newsletters, and can it send to members of a secondary usergroup? Because those abilities would be ULTRA useful!

It's just a guess but I think this extension does not actually alter email format in any way, and focuses exclusively on send-related functionality.

Here's another mod that might do some of what you're after.

[Jafo232]

Well, according to Perlmonks, there is a wrapper with Qmail that emulates sendmail:

http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=224380

Qmail comes with a wrapper (in /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, or in the bin directory of wherever you installed Qmail) that emulates sendmail nicely.

My guess is that all you do is enter /var/qmail/bin/sendmail as your sendmail path and it should work.

[kadafi_alive]

Hi, this might be a newbie question but how do you find out if you have:

Perl (Some hosts call this CGI) w/ the DBI module (MySQL driver)

installed?

Thanks in advance

[Snake]

Thanks!

[tuanluu]

thanks for sharing

[tuanluu]

$path_to_sendmail = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; -------> for win 2003 what should I put?

"Upload the list.cgi file IN ASCII (NOT BINARY OR AUTO) mode somewhere on your server where it CANNOT be accessed by a browser or any other user except yourself." -------> you mean anywhere on my server or in forum root? for example c:\secure

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Hi, this might be a newbie question but how do you find out if you have:

Perl (Some hosts call this CGI) w/ the DBI module (MySQL driver)

installed?

Thanks in advance

Well, most hosts have Perl installed, but your host may be able to tell you. Generally Perl installations also have DBI installed, but you will know pretty quick when you run the Perl script because it will throw a visible error saying it cannot find the module.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by tuanluu

$path_to_sendmail = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; -------> for win 2003 what should I put?

"Upload the list.cgi file IN ASCII (NOT BINARY OR AUTO) mode somewhere on your server where it CANNOT be accessed by a browser or any other user except yourself." -------> you mean anywhere on my server or in forum root? for example c:\secure

Where is your Sendmail program located? Most Windows servers do not have Sendmail, so your probably out of luck until I write up an SMTP routine.

As for your second question, I do not think the instructions were vague, put is somewhere where nobody can access it via a web browser. Where that is on your system, only you and your host will know that.

[Paul M]

Interesting .... I slightly modified the existing vb mail system to process it's queue every 15 minutes via a vb cron job - pretty much the same end result, but using the existing mail tables and system. I had considered releasing this at some point but this has probably saved me the effort now.

[tuanluu]

okay thanks for quick reply

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Interesting .... I slightly modified the existing vb mail system to process it's queue every 15 minutes via a vb cron job - pretty much the same end result, but using the existing mail tables and system. I had considered releasing this at some point but this has probably saved me the effort now.

Using the vb cronjob would probably cause the same issues for large userbases as PHP will still hang (and possibly timeout) with large mailings.

I usually prefer to write up a separate tables for my hacks just so they do not muck with user data by accident (faulty uninstalls, etc).

[Jafo232]

Ok, I added SMTP support for you Windows users.

I also modified the code so it will be compatible with the HTML hack here .

I also modified the code a bit to use the Vbulletin headers which is needed for the HTML hack and non English sites.

Just uninstall product, and re-install and you are all set.