Mass Mailing Users

[DVD Plaza]

I've heard that there is no such feature in VBulletin yet? I probably wouldn't use that as I prefer to have my local PC send our newsletters out to members one by one, so that I have total control and assurance over privacy/progress/reliability.

If I were to begin using VBulletin instead of my current UBB, I MUST at the very least be able to extract a listing of my member's e-mail addresses (would be nice to also grab their username) if they have the "admin e-mail" option turned on.

Then again I could probably just query the database and get that information myself, but not having the full product yet I'm not aware if there is a dedicated table for the member information that I could run such a query on.

If someone could give me an official word on this I'd be greatful. :)

[eva2000]

mass mailing members is a available in the full version and you can also use a script here http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2878 to query the database and extract the email addresses out to a text file as well.

[Shoe]

Originally posted by eva2000
mass mailing members is a available in the full version and you can also use a script here http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2878 to query the database and extract the email addresses out to a text file as well.

Available but not in working order. Mass email has never worked for me and never been resolved! I did not know there was another script. Glad to hear this. I will check it out!

[eva2000]

strange... my errors with not reaching members have always been sendmail or MTA Postfix errors on the receiving end or invalid user accounts...

it really suxs cause i get 150kb/day of bounced mail from members using email notify...

[DVD Plaza]

Had a look, excellent it IS just a matter of running a query on a table. I'd simply do something as follows (substituting whatever the real variable names are):

select username, email from user where adminnotify=true

Thanks! :)

P.S. Don't like these reports I hear of e-mail bouncing though, have read that numerous times here...probably the only negative thing thus far (other than simultanious mySQL connections and so forth, which I'm checking with my host).