vBulletin offers administrators the facility to send an email
newsletter to all/certain users who are registered on the bulletin board. Click on the
Email Users link (under the
Users section), and the following form will appear:
This form accepts the following parameters:
- Messages to send at once - the number of email messages to send at any one time. Depending on the power of your server, you may wish to increase or dcrease this number.
- From - email address to use as the from address on each email
- Subject - email subject.
- Message - email message body... i.e. the actual email message. You can include three variables in your message - $username, $password and $email (corresponding to the user's username, password and email address respectively).
The remainder of the form fields are used to define a set of users that will receive the email message. If you leave all the fields empty, all your registered users will receive the email message - alternatively, you can specify the following parameters to narrow down the list of recipients:
- User Name contains ...
- User Group is ...
- Email contains ... Parent's email contains ...
- Is coppa user ... (yes or no)
- Homepage contains ...
- ICQ Number contains ...
- AIM Handle contains ...
- Yahoo Messenger Handle contains ...
- Signature contains ...
- User Title contains ...
- Join Date is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Join Date is before ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Birthday is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Birthday is birthday ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Visit is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Visit is before ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Post is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Post is before ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Number of Posts is greater than ...
- Number of Posts is less than ...
All these fields are optional.