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I am admin on a very small board and have been asked the question ;

Can I make it so that when a new artical / news / forum posts is made
a group / mass email goes out?

Right now I think that isnt possible but was wondering if there is any
infusion etc that might get close?

Thanks!

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There is an infusion called Autonews that was originally set up to do this, however it has not worked right since version 7.01.x I have been using it for a while and I am using 7.02.03 but having problems with sending news, articles but it will send an email if anyone uses the shoutbox. No one on the forum has responded to my requests for help and the author of the infusion has not responded to my emails either.

Search for it and if you can't find it, send me a PM and I will zip up the files I have on my site and send them to you.

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afoster wrote:

There is an infusion called Autonews that was originally set up to do this, however it has not worked right since version 7.01.x I have been using it for a while and I am using 7.02.03 but having problems with sending news, articles but it will send an email if anyone uses the shoutbox. No one on the forum has responded to my requests for help and the author of the infusion has not responded to my emails either.

Search for it and if you can't find it, send me a PM and I will zip up the files I have on my site and send them to you.

OK thanks - in what aspects does it not work correctly?

Actually just thinking - is it possible just to send a mass email at all with no mods / infusions ?

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Actually just thinking - is it possible just to send a mass email at all with no mods / infusions ?

No, it's not

The reason a mass email has never been incorporated into the core is that as your membership gets larger it could cause serious server load issues. Sending a mail out for every article, news item and especially forum posts could cause a lot of traffic.
Don't forget, members can track forum threads of interest and will receive mails for new posts.

There are several ways to notify users of new content, the most obvious being

RSS and there's also Twitterfeed

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Philip wrote:

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Actually just thinking - is it possible just to send a mass email at all with no mods / infusions ?

No, it's not

The reason a mass email has never been incorporated into the core is that as your membership gets larger it could cause serious server load issues. Sending a mail out for every article, news item and especially forum posts could cause a lot of traffic.
Don't forget, members can track forum threads of interest and will receive mails for new posts.

There are several ways to notify users of new content, the most obvious being

RSS and there's also Twitterfeed

That assumes large membership - we have 10 staff and there will never be anymore. Can you clue me in on RSS?

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Just click the link, download it, read instructions and configure to suit. I've never used it myself so I don't know anymore about it.

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cpcnw wrote:

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afoster wrote:

There is an infusion called Autonews that was originally set up to do this, however it has not worked right since version 7.01.x I have been using it for a while and I am using 7.02.03 but having problems with sending news, articles but it will send an email if anyone uses the shoutbox. No one on the forum has responded to my requests for help and the author of the infusion has not responded to my emails either.

Search for it and if you can't find it, send me a PM and I will zip up the files I have on my site and send them to you.

OK thanks - in what aspects does it not work correctly?

Actually just thinking - is it possible just to send a mass email at all with no mods / infusions ?

It doesn't work (for me at least) if I add a news item. It only works if I someone posts a shout in the shoutbox. At one time it worked as advertised but version 7.01.x changed the code somehow to where it was not working.

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— 2 years later —

i would use this mod too but also by me - it dosent work in 7.02.007. I think i have to wait for a update :)

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Automatic is usually good, however it has been my experience that any form of automatic relating to mass email ends up becoming spam, no matter the intention. Take this example for instance: what "new/change" are you going to consider worthy of email notification. It could be set to just about any action you desire. So an article / news / forum post is created, then posted, then modified five, six, or seven times, possibly with just a simple spelling correction. Should the members be informed, with an email, of every change made? If not, the question again comes into play, at what event do we make notification available. Let me know what you think the event for email should be and we will move forward with formulating a solution.

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I have just now seen the post about the autonews infusion, and following up on my last post where I stated that it is not working, I can now state that it is working and has been working just fine on three different sites. If anyone is interested in installing it, I am attaching the zip file to this post and the link for the forum that will help with problems is here..

http://www.php-fusion.dk/forum/viewth...d_id=17479

It may require some tinkering but I believe it is one of the better infusions out there. You can even add what content you want to send emails about.

afoster attached the following file:

autonews_infusion1.zip [No information available / 437 Downloads]

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hmnn it dosent work on my site (Fusion 7.02.07) i have try all versions i found from autonews but none will working :(
i like it and i need it but i dont cant find the error

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I am running the infusion on 7.02.07 with no problems. What error messages are you getting? When you first install the infusion, not sending email is checked by default...you have to uncheck it.

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yes its unchecked but no mail is sending. I see the testmail but none mail comes to me or other. Is this below the newest version? i have try 1.0 and 1.1.
i dont have error messages but one in my errorlog: shuotbox .....

hmnn ok i have installed this infusion when i add the panel. But i have often a ASP Erorror in the sidepanel. i have to switch to send mail weekly and good is. with luck i can switch back to one our and have no error in panel

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Here is a screen shot of my admin settings...perhaps it can help you.

To bypass the obvious, the members that want to receive email notifications have checked the option to receive them in their profiles, right?

As for the shoutbox error msg, you have to infuse shoutbox if it is not already. The version of autonews that I have also sends out emails when a new video is posted.

afoster attached the following file:

autonews.jpg [No information available / 89 Downloads]

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what version you have installed? can you attach this file?

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I downloaded it from the website I mentioned in one of my posts above, but here it is.

afoster attached the following file:

autonews_infusion.zip [No information available / 438 Downloads]

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thx for your attach.
i have deinfue the old autonews and infuse your attached file. But i have errors

Status: Waiting
Last chunk: Never
Last sched.: 30 Jan 22:45
Last actual: Never
Next send: Asap

i guess someone is wrong. but what?
I use PHP Fusion v7.02.07

on your screen i see the video option - in my autonews is this not to see!
you have a modded version?

my second error is this in errorlog: Use of undefined constant DB_SHOUTBOX - assumed 'DB_SHOUTBOX' Zeile: 351

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Quelltext (Zeile: 341 - 358)
341        'parse2'=> '',
342        'query' => "SELECT  shout_datestamp AS timestamp, 
343                            shout_name AS user_id, 
344                            user_name, 
345                            0 AS item_id, 
346                            0 AS item_no, 
347                            shout_message AS item_text,
348                            0 AS item2_id, 
349                            0 AS item2_no, 
350                            '' AS item2_text 
351                                    FROM ".DB_SHOUTBOX." 
352                                    LEFT JOIN ".DB_USERS." ON (shout_name = user_id) 
353                            WHERE 
354                                                        shout_datestamp > ".$ts_cut.";"
355      ),
356    );
357    ?>
358

Error: Use of undefined constant DB_SHOUTBOX - assumed 'DB_SHOUTBOX' Line: 351

Edited by Catzenjaeger on 30-01-2014 23:57, 10 y

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Yes, I have modded version, i.e. the video option has been added and I was helped by the developer last year. I can send you the code for that but you would need to adapt it to your video infusion.

As for your error msg, add this code to infusion_db.php file under the autonews folder:

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if (!defined("DB_SHOUTBOX"))    {   define("DB_SHOUTBOX", DB_PREFIX."shoutbox"); }

I am assuming that you have shoutbox infused in your php-fusion version.

The rest of the problem, I would need to be able to access your admin panel to try to see what/where the problem may be. If you would like me to try, send me a PM with the log in details. I understand if you don't want to, but I don't know how else I might find the problem.

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i guess i found the error but i cant fix it well im a noob :)
i have look in my database. Autonews write 2 tables. One of the tables ( autonews_to ) will not filled with informations. So i have to deinfuse and infuse new. With luck sometimes the tables are ok but i get then a error in my panel then

Status: Waiting
Last chunk: Never
Last sched.:j. M G:i
Last actual: Never
Next send:Asap
Subscribers: 3

i guess really here is the problem.
when i see ASAP then ist the table correct but the system dosent work.

Edited by Catzenjaeger on 31-01-2014 16:41, 10 y

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I assume that the Last sched.: j. M G:i shown in your post is the time of the last scheduled sending and if there has been no messages sent, perhaps that is the reason for that code being there?

Here is how my autonews_param.php file looks like:

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if (!defined("IN_FUSION")) { die("Access Denied"); }
include INFUSIONS."shoutbox_panel/infusion_db.php";
// You may change these settings

$autonews_params['sendasbcc'] = FALSE;   // TRUE to send as bcc, FALSE to send as to.
                                        // Sending as 'bcc' may fail on some mail servers. Sending as 'to' may take more ressources

$autonews_params['fromemail'] = 'me@yahoo.com';       // Enter email to override using value of settings['siteemail']
$autonews_params['copyemail'] = 'me@hotmail.com';       // Enter email of account to receive visible copy of all mails (in "To:")

$autonews_params['hsgallery'] = FALSE;  // TRUE if hs gallery is used - FALSE otherwise

$autonews_params['cronjob'] = FALSE;    // TRUE if cronjob is used - FALSE otherwise

$autonews_params['html_start'] = '<font face=\'Arial\'>'; // Ending html tags
$autonews_params['html_end'] = '</font>';

Enter email addresses into the fromemail and copyemail settings and see if that helps.

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