Freekoid

Customer
Noticing your frequent emails, they are mainly text based writings.

• What about a customised newsletter that will incorporate your products, image with link.

• spotlight member shown

• latest threads of certain forums, admin controlled.

• able to pull the header and footer making it look professional.

• pull news links or announcements and sticky threads

• upon registration option to unsubscribe from newsletter

• email bounce and blacklist

I get lots of emails, with usual upcoming stuff but also spot links and stuff I may not have seen. Makes me explore that area of the site I may have overlooked.

Of course this can then become a mod for us to use as our own email marketing system :)
 
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Already an email mod planned out and it's due to be one of the first "new" mods that gets released after the latest updates run =)
 
My suggestion would be to make the bounce part separate (integrate it into the whole of vb). That way it not only handles the newsletter system but everything else vb sends out. A proper bounce management system is needed. Alfa1 has made a private one which is extremely good, so if you need ideas you might want to message him on vb.org.

As much as I would love a newsletter system, I won't be able to use it with my 600,000 users if I can't email them because email providers will blacklist me the second an email is sent with the amount of bounces I get.
 
Is blacklist because of the presumption your mass spamming?
Pretty much. Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, gmail, etc. have very strict rules that you need to comply with when sending an email out. I follow every rule very closely, however the one thing which is very hard to manage having a board that is 5+ years old with over 600,000 members is bouncing emails. Once those bounces occur too often for their liking, they will blacklist your IP, which than effects you big time, coz people can't register on your site. I have a system in place on my site now thanks to Alfa however there is not a version for vb4, and I am planning to upgrade soon.
 
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