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Topic: PM Groups?

Posted By: ohiopbx
Subject: PM Groups?
Date Posted: 22 August 2007 at 6:59pm

Am i just missing it? but i would like to be able to PM groups. like my moderators. Since the mass email is gone i cannot email them and i dont want to bother making a "buliten" just to tell them to check something...

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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 22 August 2007 at 8:24pm

This is an excellent idea but I'm afraid someone might take advantage of it and spam every single member with one single click! The ideal way of doing it is to make it an admin-only feature.

Also, if you want to be able to mass email members like you did with version 8, then simply copy these two files from version 8 to version 9's directories:

admin_member_mailier.asp
admin_member_mailier_send.asp

Now do this

In version 9, login to the admin area
Now that you're in the admin area, In your browser's address bar type the address to the first file: http://www.domain-name.com/admin_member_mailer.asp - www.domain-name.com/admin_member_mailer.asp

That's all

I'll see if I can make this a mod and post it for you.

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"When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars"
-Charles A. Beard

Posted By: jckruger
Date Posted: 24 August 2007 at 3:00am

Hi Info_Tech,

I didn't know about this thread but did try that exact method last night. Unfortunately it sent the emails to the correct members but also sent a blank email to my entire membership so a few things may need to be altered with the SQL queries. I got a flood of email replies asking "What's with the blank email?"

Something to check before sending thousands of emails.

If you do figure it out please post the results. I'm also using the Access Version.

Cheers

Justin Kruger

Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 24 August 2007 at 6:31am

Hello Justin,

I tried it myself and it worked perfectly for me... but the difference is, is that my forum uses an MS-SQL database and not MS Access.

I have just double-checked it and came up with same results. I sent an email to the admin group, i received the one email successfully and no blank emails no duplicate emails. Maybe this is something to do with the database type?

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"When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars"
-Charles A. Beard

Posted By: ohiopbx
Date Posted: 28 August 2007 at 4:24pm

Info_Tech wrote:

This is an excellent idea but I'm afraid someone might take advantage of it and spam every single member with one single click! The ideal way of doing it is to make it an admin-only feature.

Also, if you want to be able to mass email members like you did with version 8, then simply copy these two files from version 8 to version 9's directories:

admin_member_mailier.asp
admin_member_mailier_send.asp

Now do this

In version 9, login to the admin area
Now that you're in the admin area, In your browser's address bar type the address to the first file: http://www.domain-name.com/admin_member_mailer.asp - www.domain-name.com/admin_member_mailer.asp

That's all

I'll see if I can make this a mod and post it for you.

Thanks man! yeah i was thinking something like that.
And for the mass pm of moderators. i'd just want it so "Admins" (me) could pm my moderators. maybe ill try to put something together