I was wondering if there is a way of testing this plugin without actually sending email to more than 3000 members. How could I test it?

vladeta 267 days ago

A functionality that we need is to be able to add a group o security scope for who to send it to. That is, add a drop down list box similar to the one you see when posting something la discussion forum o blog entry. (logged-in, group xx, member list, etc)

We might take on this enhancement if we make the time available. Do you understand the idea for the enhancement?

Regards,
Pablo

pablof 266 days ago

@vladeta: create a test site, install it on the test site, create dummy accounts.

voila.

Dagorath 266 days ago

@vladeta: If your users receive notifications, then this plugin will work. It uses the same methode to send the mail as Elgg core does.

@pablof: In the future I will add the possibility for group owners to mail to their group. I hope this will help

Jerome Bakker 263 days ago

Hi there... I was wondering if this had any kind of unsubscribe management in this plugin?

Unsubcribes aren't always nice to get, but it's good to offer that option to your users....

jennine 248 days ago

@jennie, No there is no unsubscribe possibility. This plugin should be used mostly for site announcements, not for a regular newsletter (it still could, but NO unsubscribe).

Maybe i'll build this feature in in some future release ;)

Jerome Bakker 247 days ago

@vladeta

here is a handy tool i have used often for testing mailing scripts of all kinds... as Dagorath said, set up a test site and create dummy accounts, have this tool running and it will catch those emails as if they were emailed out (i have mozilla thunderbird handy to act as a receiver). This is also handy to make dummy users and validate them by email too.

http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/

Zakary Venturo 247 days ago

@jerome, thanks for that. yeah, that would be helpful in the next release, as the users may not want to recieve updates from the community....i just feel better about giving them that option. but thank you.

jennine 247 days ago

I use arabic in my site , try to send mails but it have problem as site Encoding is UTF-8 but Mail header Send it as iso- ,

i looked for this code

$headers = "From: \"{$CONFIG->site->name}\" <{$CONFIG->site->email}>\r\n"
. "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed\r\n"
. "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";

but i didn't find it in the new Version , how can i fix this ( P.S. Site Notifecations send as UTF-8 with no problem ) ??!!

alysami 244 days ago

@alysami This plugin also uses the site notification for sending all the mails, so I don't see how the one thing goes right and the other (mass mailouts) wrong??

Jerome Bakker 243 days ago

it doesn't work with Tinymce. No email out.

lord55 242 days ago

I was hoping for it to work, but it says:

Request-URI Too Large

The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.

request failed: URI too long

It's true. The URL is like a mile long.

Spacetraveler 232 days ago

Hi Jerome,

Hmmm.....I just downloaded this.  Filled in the two fields: title, message, but at this moment in time, I do not see any messages in any of my users' email or elgg inbox.

Any reasons?

colinliu 232 days ago

@colinliu: You won't see anything in the Elgg inbox, this plugin always mail to the user ;)

Do your users receive any mails from your site? Eq confirmation of email, request for new password, etc. If this is the case then I don't get it, because this plugin uses the Elgg notification method.

If you are using TinyMCE, disable it temporarely. I'm alway having problem with TinyMCE and this plugin.

Hope this helps, let me know please!!

Jerome Bakker 232 days ago

I assume it needs PHPMailer()?  This is what I found looking at your previous versions.

I am currently using Elgg 1.5.

Thanks

colinliu 232 days ago

@colinliu: No it doesn't need PHPMailer. But I think it works better if you do.

As I said, this plugin uses the Elgg notification system (notify_user()). So it should work if your users get the registration confirmation mail, or request for new password, ect.

Jerome Bakker 229 days ago

I've modified the PHPMailer plugin so people can install it without overridding the default Elgg email handler.

I also noticed that Curverider has a new mass mailout plugin in their svn repository. Just an FYI.

Cash 229 days ago

Jerome,

Thx.  I reverted back to the previous version and it works!!!  Which is great.

With the current version, within the popup, I get the progress bar then my Elgg site loaded in the small window.  I can only assume this is not expected but instead display a message?  I don't know but the previous version works for me.

Regards

colinliu 229 days ago

I disabled TinyMCE and I was able to mass mail people. The only problem is, it sent out four of the same email to each member. I had to disable the mod to stop it.

Spacetraveler 223 days ago

I came across a fatal issue (but easy to fix, see below), I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this?

What was happening is that upon sending mail, the error "The requested action (mass_mailouts/progressWindow) was not defined in the system." would come up in a popup window (for a second or 2) and no mail was sent.

The following seems to fix it: in start.php on line 56, the file "progressWindow.php" is incorrect, it should be "progresswindow.php" (no uppercase W). I suppose renaming the file might work as well, I haven't tried that.

After making this change, it is working just fine.

We have TinyMCE installed by the way, and it doesn't seem to be an issue.

Anton 208 days ago

great... diabling tinymce just corrupted my whole network.

jennine 206 days ago

ok... i'm sorry... so i had to disable all my plugins, yet since i activated the mass mail out plug in tool management is really slow. i also did not see the status or know how to really send a newsletter (i just created one, and scheduled it to go out via 'managing campaings')

is that right? are there any instructions on how to do this?

jennine 206 days ago

@jennie: when you activate Mass Mailouts a new option will be availible in the admin menu named Mass Mailouts. There you can create your newsletter.

There is no 'managing campaings', if you see this then it has to be from a different plugin

Jerome Bakker 206 days ago

anyone had this working on 1.6.1

I tried and failed with a popup window I tried Anton's suggestion and then there was no popwindow.

But not emails went out either, and Yes I disabled the editor, and is using elgg default system and I can confirm members do receive emails.

Hopefully I didn't leave anything out. :)

Kiwi_Chris 190 days ago

Hi, I have installed Mass MAilout and It doesn't work on my Elgg 1.5 . I have disable TinyMCE and External Pages.

When I click the "Send email" button, a new windows is opened. It shows the main index and I think that It should show a confirmation message.

This is not the ProgressWindows error ^^

Mystery 181 days ago