http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: mail en Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:32:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-20514 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:09:18 +0000 _ck_ 20514@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Any shared host worth their salt will automatically, immediately and permanently suspend an account sending that many emails per hour anyway.</p> <p>Any site sending that many messages needs a dedicated email server with an IP that's registered on whitelists (costs $$$) so major providers will accept that kind of traffic. <a href="http://goodmail.com" rel="nofollow">http://goodmail.com</a> <a href="http://www.senderscorecertified.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.senderscorecertified.com</a> <a href="http://www.isipp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.isipp.com</a> are examples of popular whitelist services. You also need to make sure the server has rDNS, SenderID, SPF and DomainKeys. </p> <p>With some additional code and the use of cron, Detective's code could be made to send only a few emails per minute, and track that the same domain does not get an email again within a few minutes. That might slow down the banning a little but we're getting into spammer territory there and I'm not making such a tool available (also phplist does all that anyway). </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-20492 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:28:50 +0000 chrishajer 20492@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>One other thing: when your IP gets banned, you might also affect other customers on the same shared server. That's a good way to get booted off your host, affecting their other customers. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-20491 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:27:55 +0000 chrishajer 20491@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>My recommendation would be to hire an email marketing service.</p> <p><a href="http://myemma.com/" rel="nofollow">http://myemma.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.constantcontact.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.constantcontact.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.aweber.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aweber.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.verticalresponse.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.profollow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.profollow.com/</a></p> <p>There are so many of them. I don't have an affiliation with any of them, but outsourcing this function is better than trying to send them all from your server IMO. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-20475 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:32:14 +0000 finalwebsites 20475@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <blockquote><p>If you have a large number of members, this is a positively guaranteed way to get your server IP banned by most major email services like gmail, hotmail, yahoo and aol.</p></blockquote> <p>What is your advice to send a newsletter to 10.000 bbpress forum members? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-20453 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:23:27 +0000 myrontay 20453@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I can't believe I've not seen phplist around before. :D Thanks! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18514 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:19:18 +0000 chrishajer 18514@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>PHP List interface/plugin is a good idea.</p> <p><a href="http://www.phplist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.phplist.com/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18513 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:42:37 +0000 citizenkeith 18513@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm a member of a few forums that send out announcements. </p> <p>Some hosts will limit the number of emails you can send at once though. Dreamhost, for instance, has a limit of 100 per hour (one of the many reasons I'll be leaving them soon).</p> <p>It would be overkill for some sites, but it would be nice to have a plugin for PHPList that would share a WordPress and/or bbPress user database; one that would allow user control of mailing list preferences in the WordPress or bbPress profile. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18510 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:23:38 +0000 Detective 18510@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I have an admin interface, but it's ugly and incomplete. I think a plugin for mass mailing your users should have an opt-out option (and opt-in at registration), which i haven't implemented.</p> <p>I don't agree with _ck_, because a forum or a community should have a way to give important messages to its users (sometimes you can't rely on RSS). If such functionality is not being used correctly, well, that's another case. And i don't think Google or another service could ban you if you present a normal usage (ie., not thousands of e-mails every minute). </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18488 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:18:48 +0000 sambauers 18488@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Actually it will be in 1.0-alpha-2 (the next alpha release) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18487 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:17:03 +0000 sambauers 18487@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>1.0-alpha now includes php-mailer from WordPress.</p> <p>I've added a plugin for 1.0-alpha to allow sending of email via an SMTP server. <a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/smtp-mailer-for-bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/smtp-mailer-for-bbpress/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18473 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:29:46 +0000 csseur3 18473@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>nice, detective :)</p> <p>but could you make a plugin with a graphic administration? now, there is a bit complicated to use for me and my other administrators lol :p</p> <p>ck, what is better? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18468 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:58:08 +0000 chrishajer 18468@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><strong>singlezhan</strong>: Please start a new thread. Sounds like you have something else going on. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18467 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:55:04 +0000 singlezhang 18467@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I can get it work, with this plugin new users can receive the reg-email. But the problem is the users can not login. After click login button a blank page come out. If deactive the plugin, the users can login, but new users can not receive the reg-email.<br /> with IIS+PHP5, wordpress 2.5.1, </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18446 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:20:17 +0000 chrishajer 18446@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What sort of error are you seeing? It's hard to help resolve an issue as vague as "just errors out." The error messages might be important. Please offer more detail. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18439 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:45:49 +0000 jon775 18439@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I can't seem to get this to work. I followed the instructions and put in the paths to my SwiftMailer directory, but the plugin just errors out when I try to activate it.</p> <p>I really would like to get this sorted out, new users are registering on my forums, and many are not getting registration emails... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18374 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:53:58 +0000 _ck_ 18374@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>If you have a large number of members, this is a positively guaranteed way to get your server IP banned by most major email services like gmail, hotmail, yahoo and aol. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18371 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:14:16 +0000 Detective 18371@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I have a custom plugin for that. Here are the two important functions:</p> <pre><code>function bb_mail_users($subject, $content) { global $bbdb; $users = $bbdb-&gt;get_results(&quot;SELECT ID, user_login, user_email FROM $bbdb-&gt;users&quot;); foreach ($users as $user) bb_mail_user($user-&gt;ID, $user-&gt;user_login, $user-&gt;user_email, $subject, $content); } function bb_mail_user($user_id, $user_login, $user_email, $subject, $message) { $message = str_replace(&#39;%user_login%&#39;, $user_login, $message); $message = str_replace(&#39;%user_id%&#39;, $user_id, $message); $message = str_replace(&#39;%user_email%&#39;, $user_email, $message); $subject = str_replace(&#39;%user_login%&#39;, $user_login, $subject); $subject = str_replace(&#39;%user_id%&#39;, $user_id, $subject); $subject = str_replace(&#39;%user_email%&#39;, $user_email, $subject); bb_mail($user_email, $subject, $message); }</code></pre> <p>I think it's pretty straightforward. You can write a message like: "Hello, %user_login%, how are you? Thanks for participating in this forum :)" and a subject like "Thanks, %user_login%". Then, to mail that to all your users:</p> <pre><code>$content = &quot;Hello, %user_login%, how are you? Thanks for participating in this forum :)&quot;; $subject = &quot;Thanks, %user_login%&quot;; bb_mail_users($subject, $content);</code></pre> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18370 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:58:41 +0000 chrishajer 18370@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>There is no plugin like that that I know of. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function#post-18369 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:27:04 +0000 csseur3 18369@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>i want to send an email for all the members. There is a mass email plugin?</p> <p>Bye </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18336 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:18:28 +0000 sambauers 18336@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>We have debated adding the wp-mail class to bbPress to get this functionality built in, but we balked at the sheer size of the code. What is a good lightweight replacement for php-mailer that we can consider adding to backpress? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18247 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:59:30 +0000 chrishajer 18247@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Very nice. Glad you got it working. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18230 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:30:49 +0000 chrissydunno 18230@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>you guys rock</p> <p>just changed from sendmail to smtp, added authentication, made path changes and it works!</p> <p>here is the template for my plugin</p> <p>&lt;?php</p> <p>/*<br /> Plugin Name: Swift Mailer<br /> Description: Replace bb_mail with Swift Mailer<br /> Version: 0.1<br /> */</p> <p>if ( !function_exists('bb_mail') ) {<br /> function bb_mail($to, $subject, $content, $headers=''){</p> <p> require_once('MYSWIFTFOLDER/lib/Swift.php');<br /> require_once('MYSWIFTFOLDER/lib/Swift/Connection/SMTP.php');</p> <p> $smtp =&#38; new Swift_Connection_SMTP("MYSMTPSERVER", 25);<br /> $smtp-&gt;setUsername("MYEMAILLOGIN");<br /> $smtp-&gt;setpassword("MYEMAILPASSWORD");<br /> $swift =&#38; new Swift($smtp);<br /> $from = new Swift_Address("MYFROMEMAIL","MYFRIENDLYFROM");</p> <p> $message =&#38; new Swift_Message($subject, $content);<br /> if ($swift-&gt;send($message, $to, $from)) {return true;}<br /> else{ echo "Message failed to send to ".$to." from ".$from;}<br /> $swift-&gt;disconnect();</p> <p> }<br /> }<br /> ?&gt; </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18201 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:51:18 +0000 chrishajer 18201@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You take all that code that howtogeek pasted and put it into a file called "replacebbmail.php" or something. To make php code into a bbPress plugin, it needs to have a header. The header needs to look something like this (change the values to something meaningful to you):</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php /* Plugin Name: Swift Mailer Plugin URI: <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/</a> (doesn&#39;t really matter) Description: Replace bb_mail with Swift Mailer Author: You Author URI: <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/</a> Version: 0.1 */</code></pre> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Then, paste the code that howtogeek showed at the end of that file. In the end, it will look something like this.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php /* Plugin Name: Swift Mailer Plugin URI: <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/</a> (doesn&#39;t really matter) Description: Replace bb_mail with Swift Mailer Author: You Author URI: <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/</a> Version: 0.1 */ if ( !function_exists(&#39;bb_mail&#39;) ) { function bb_mail($to, $subject, $content, $headers=&#39;&#39;){ require_once(&#39;PATH_TO/Swift/lib/Swift.php&#39;); require_once(&#39;PATH_TO/Swift/lib/Swift/Connection/Sendmail.php&#39;); $swift =&#38; new Swift(new Swift_Connection_Sendmail(&quot;/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs&quot;)); $from = new Swift_Address(&quot;noreply@mysite.com&quot;,&quot;My bbPress Forums&quot;); $message =&#38; new Swift_Message($subject, $content); if ($swift-&gt;send($message, $to, $from)) {return true;} else{ echo &quot;Message failed to send to &quot;.$to.&quot; from &quot;.$from;} $swift-&gt;disconnect(); } } ?&gt;</code></pre> &nbsp;</p> <p>The name of the file does not matter really. Save that new file in bb-plugins. Now activate your new plugin in the admin section of your bbPress site.</p> <p>You will need to configure it before activating it to make sure it works (setting up the path to swift mailer and setting the auth stuff if you need to.) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18199 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:43:00 +0000 chrissydunno 18199@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>thanks guys .. but how do you 'make howtogeek's code into a plugin'</p> <p>where does his code go? registration-settings.php? how?</p> <p>i can install swiftmailer of course, just not sure what else needs to change in current bbpress configurations </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18186 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:15:24 +0000 _ck_ 18186@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>It really is that simple - just make HowToGeek's code into a plugin and install swiftmailer:</p> <p><a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x#post-15776" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x#post-15776</a></p> <p>That reminds me to fix some of my plugins so they use bb_mail() instead of mail() directly. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18175 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:12:34 +0000 chrishajer 18175@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I don't know about a complete solution, but I've been able to get this one working.</p> <p><a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/email-authentication-issue#post-17757" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/email-authentication-issue#post-17757</a></p> <p>If it becomes a large enough issue, I imagine someone will create a plugin for it. Until then, this is a work around.</p> <p>Integrating something like this does not affect WordPress integration as far as I know. It's just the email function. I imagine WordPress would have the same issue sending out emails unless you use a plugin like this there as well. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpmailer-swiftmailer-smtp-authentication-registration-email-sending-problems#post-18174 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:08:01 +0000 chrissydunno 18174@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>has anyone seen a complete solution for this issue? many hosts do not allow php mail() function because it doesn't support smtp authentication</p> <p>i've seen several posts about swiftmailer, phpmailer alternatives, but none offer a step by step instructions?</p> <p>interested in modifying files only from the latest verion bbpress-0.9.0.2.zip</p> <p>also, are any of these solutions integrated with wordpress? or when you use them you lose the bbpress user = wp user integration?</p> <p>any kind of complete solution would be appreciated by many </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mail-senging-problem-with-mail-function#post-15914 Thu, 01 May 2008 14:42:25 +0000 sambauers 15914@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Those ini_set() calls could go in your bb-config.php as well and should work just the same.</p> <p>Having said that, I think this hack will only work on Windows Servers running IIS. But I'm not 100% sure about that. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mail-senging-problem-with-mail-function#post-15889 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:05:07 +0000 DJP 15889@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@amit_online</p> <p>I will try this on my installation instead of the PEAR workaround &#38; let you know if it works.</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mail-senging-problem-with-mail-function#post-15883 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:55:59 +0000 amit_online 15883@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>After experiencing the initial problem of a signup confirmation mail not going out, and going through the various posts on that topic, I finally found a fix without having to use a plugin or use pear functions.</p> <p>In the file /bb-includes/pluggable.php add the following lines at the top:<br /> <pre><code>ini_set(&quot;SMTP&quot;,&quot;mail.YourDomain.com&quot;); //IP or server name for smtp server ini_set(&quot;smtp_port&quot;,&quot;25&quot;); ini_set(&#39;sendmail_from&#39;, &#39;ValidEmailAccount@YourDomain.com&#39;);</code></pre> <p>This worked in my case. I hope this solves other people's problems too. </p>