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I just went through and set permissions on all Boomerang Module files, language file, image file, everything Boomerang is now set to 777 but sadly that did not fix the problem. Could there be a config setting for a directory somewhere that I need to change or possibly a conflict with another module, or plugin, or extension?

Thanks for the quick response!

Just try to reach login form via http://yoursite.com/system/index.php instead of http://yoursite.com/admin.php and you will get dashboard with all images and css.

Huh, yeah that worked. Thanks bmikulic! After I changed my login location it seems kinda obvious as to why the images weren’t working. All the image locations where a directory off. Anyway, thanks again Jack & bmikulic for the support.

Wowie, this sounds great.

Here are a few questions which I couldn’t spot in all the replies of everyone:

1. Is it possible to personalize e-mails with custom member profile fields: Dear Jack,

It has been a while a ago (7 weeks and 2 days to be precize) since you visited our site, but since then…

2. Bounce control would be great! Actually a custom member field ‘bounced’ should be set. This would allow me to check this field when someone logs on to the site and say: ‘hello, our latest e-mail to [email protected] was bounced, it this e-mail still correct).

3. What about the reputation of the mailserver? Who is actually sending the mail? My own mail server or are you doing this (this would be better from a e-mail marketing point of view).

4. Are previous send e-mail being stored in HTML format? In this way, we could show examples to people considering to subscribe.

5. Is it possible to create an automatically created e-mail, a daily, weekly or even montly digest? That would be awesome!

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Sounds like a great module, but I have two important questions.

Currently we’re using PHPlist. Perfect tool, but I have to export/import the user database every single time to keep it up to date. So this module comes at the right time!

Butttt, we have a database with 10.000+ users. So it’s not a small list. I’ve been having issues in the past with the EE mailinglist module when the user database was getting bigger; the page timed out during the proces of sending, and I could resend it all, users getting multiple emails etc etc. This is why we moved to phplist: it handles everything perfectly in the background. So you can start the batch and close your browser.

First question: Is this last feature supported with this module or do you have to keep your connection alive while sending the batch?

Second question: We’re using a prive smtp server, which allows sending 1 email per second. In phplist you can set a maximum of emails to send per second. Does this module also support that?

thanks!

The actual send process will not time out in a browser. The emails are sent out from a separate process that is setup via a cron job on the server. We plan on have rate limiting in place for our 1.1 release, but it is not currently in place.

How large was your list when you stopped using ExpressionEngines communicate?

Any indication as to when 1.1 will be released?

Jack,

I just recently installed Boomerang and I have no problem sending out a test email, but when I choose a mailing list (only has 3 email addresses), the emails are never received. I’m not scheduling the email, just choosing the mailing list and hitting send. Can you think of a reason as to why the ‘quick send’ works but the mailing list does not?

Thanks, Patrick

Any indication as to when 1.1 will be released?

I would say this fall. I am hoping for early fall, but it could be mid fall.

Jack, I just recently installed Boomerang and I have no problem sending out a test email, but when I choose a mailing list (only has 3 email addresses), the emails are never received. I’m not scheduling the email, just choosing the mailing list and hitting send. Can you think of a reason as to why the ‘quick send’ works but the mailing list does not? Thanks, Patrick

Email won’t send unless the cron job is setup on the server. I think we need to update the documentation to reflect this. The cron job is required though.

Or do you already have the cron job setup?

-Tom

Tom,

I did attempt to set up the Cron, but I’m receiving the following error…

PHP Warning:  shell_exec(): Cannot execute using backquotes in Safe Mode in /var/www/vhosts/123.com/httpdocs/system/cache/boomerang_cron/cron_me.php on line 5
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getting contents
PHP Warning:  file_get_contents(http://123.com/?ACT=41): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
 in /var/www/vhosts/123.com/httpdocs/system/cache/boomerang_cron/cron_me.php on line 27

In the Boomerang setup, it says “PHP Safe Mode is off. You shouldn’t have any mail scheduling problems.”

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

If you visit http://123.com/?ACT=41 (or if you replace 123.com with your domain) do you receive any output? Also what version of EE are you running?

Another quick question, is it possible to send an old email to a single email address (ie, not a whole mailing list)?

Another quick question, is it possible to send an old email to a single email address (ie, not a whole mailing list)?

We do have an edit and resend feature. Short of using the test send (which doesn’t track) We don’t currently have the feature to send to a single address. We do intend to add the feature.