Mike Walsh
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Forms] PLEASE READ THIS before starting a threadI don’t know. I would imagine existing forms will work as they always have but the ability to create a new form and then downgrade it will go away.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] how to empty email RecipientThe admin email is added as the recipient by design because many hosts do not allow the TO header to be empty. There is a filter which you can user (mailusers_manipulate_headers) which you could use to remove the TO header if you wanted. There is an example use of the filter on the plugin description page showing how Email Users could work with Mandrill.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Forms] PLEASE READ THIS before starting a threadI guess this was bound to happen at some point. There is no work-around that I know of at this time. I have an idea of how to fix it but as I’ve stated a number of times, it will take a fair amount of work to do it. Unfortunately prioritizing this over my real job responsibilities isn’t possible so my time to work on it is limited. That said, I’ll see what I can do – no promises though.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] To User VariableIf you want to send it to me at mpwalsh8 at gmail dot com I’ll do a diff against the subversion repository and look at adding it in if all looks good and doesn’t create a support problem.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] PHP.INI size for 6000 usersYou may not need to change PHP.ini at all. I would recommend using the BCC Limit feature to break up a large recipient list into smaller chunks.
The BCC Limit setting limits the number of recipient addresses which appear in any one email. If you are sending an email to 537 recipients and the BCC Limit is set to 100, Email Users will send out six (6) email messages. Message #1 will go to recipients 1-100, #2 to recipients 101-200, #3 to recipients 201-300, #4 to recipients 301-400, #5 to recipients 401-500 and #6 to recipients 501-537.
This solution works well except in the case where your hosting provider imposes a limitation on the number of email messages which can be sent in a period of time (max emails per hour or something like that). Email Users does not contain any scheduling or queuing system to spread the sending of emails out over a period of time.
Even if you changed the PHP.ini setting to a really large number (like 10,000) I’d be surprised if your web server would pass that much data through that mechanism. Selecting 6000 users from a list doesn’t make a lot of sense, you should put them in one or more groups and use the Send to Groups capability, the performance will be much better.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Email Users] Does not workIn my experience hosting providers impose two types of limits, there may be others but these are the two I’ve encountered most frequently helping people deploy Email Users.
- Limitation on the email recipient addresses any single email can be sent to, particularly with respect to the BCC header.
- Limititation on the number of email messages which can be sent in some period of time, usually an hour (limited to 5-10 email messages per hour or something similar).
Email Users has a setting which can help with the first limitation – the BCC Limit setting. It limits the number of recipient addresses which appear in any one email. If you are sending an email to 537 recipients and the BCC Limit is set to 100, Email Users will send out six (6) email messages. Message #1 will go to recipients 1-100, #2 to recipients 101-200, #3 to recipients 201-300, #4 to recipients 301-400, #5 to recipients 401-500 and #6 to recipients 501-537.
This solution works well except in the case where the second limitation kicks in – a limit on the number of email messages which can be sent in a period of time. Email Users does not contain any scheduling or queuing system to spread the sending of emails out over a period of time.
When your hosting provider imposes this sort of limitation, you’ll need to find another solution to help. I’ve heard reports from a few users that deploying an SMTP plugin which funnels mail through GMail or another authenticated email account can work around this limitation but I don’t have any personal experience doing so.
Hope this helps clarify what is and isn’t possible to work within the confines of hosting provider limitations using Email Users.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Email Users] Does not workWere you able to check my suggestions? A one star rating is a seems unreasonable without any attempts to resolve your issues.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Email Users] problem sent emailSure it is possible. In Gmail the period character is ignored so the email address “john.smith@gmail.com” is the same as “johnsmith@gmail.com”. There are lots articles on the web about how the period character is handled by Gmail, here is one of them.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by Mike Walsh.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] Custom post typeHmmm … there are a couple of filters which might work for you, have you looked at using the mailusers_before_wp_mail filter? It could modify the email body doing your own keyword replacement before the email is sent.
There is some explanation of filters on the plugin description page.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Email Users] Does not workYou’ve likely run into a BCC limit issue which is pretty common. First, make sure you can send to one user successfully. Once you can do that, send another email to 2-3 users as there is a different path through the code for one user than there is for more than one user.
If both those tests work, check with your hosting provider and see if there are any limitations on sending mail from your web server. Some things to check for a max emails per hour or max recipients per email, things like that.
Always check your spam folder to ensure your email didn’t get tagged as spam.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] I received email myselfWhen sending to a group of users, either using the Send To Group function or by selecting more than one user from the list, Email Users will place the target recipient addresses in the BCC field.
Because many email systems, for anti-spam reasons, don’t like Email without an address in the “To” field, Email Users will place the Email addrsss of the Sending User as the single To” recipient. This is likely te source of the behavior you are seeing and it is by design.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] change the From adressThere is also an setting to make it the default as opposed to having it as an option.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] change the From adressYes. It is called the “Send User Override” address. It is part of the Email Users settings (Dashboard > Settings > Email Users).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] send templateI think you misunderstood what I meant. You can use a draft post to save your templates. When you want to use one, you copy the content from it paste it into the body of the email you want to send. Not super elegant but it does work.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Email Users] send templateThere isn’t a specific template that you can store other than the single default template that is stored with the plugin settings. WHat you can do though is use draft posts to store your templates and then use the draft post content to seed the email send later.