Inactive members 1.0

[Kisha Samson]

Sends an email to all inactive members. The email is designed to encourage inactive members to visit your forum and includes a list of latest topics which hopefully sparks an interest.

This add-on is designed to be run manually, there is no cron option. I suggest not sending out emails too often as that can very easily have a negative effect.

Features:

• Highly configurable options page
• Main page identifies number of emails that will be sent
• Ability to send a sample email to yourself
• Emails are never sent to banned, invalid, or members that have selected not to receive site mailings
• Latest topics ordered by thread view count
• Unsubscribe link provided

How to use step 1:

• Go to Inactive Members Options page and update fields
• Bring up the Main page by entering "inactivemembers" after the root portion of your forum URL. Here are a few examples depending on how you set up your forum:
  http://www.example.com/inactivemembers
  http://www.example.c...inactivemembers
  http://www.example.c...inactivemembers
• Click the send sample email link and verify email received looks correct

How to use step 2:

• Avoid sending a large number of emails in one batch. If you send a batch of 1000 emails or more there is a good chance the process will abort due to memory limitations.
• Use the Options settings to send out smaller numbers of email in each batch. Set the Minimum Posts and Maximum Posts to limit each batch of emails to a few hundred.
• Once the first batch is sent, adjust the Minimum Posts and Maximum Posts again and send another batch. Do this until emails have been sent to all inactive members.

Example of each batch settings

Minimum Posts = 100
Maximum Posts = 100000

Next batch...

Minimum Posts = 10
Maximum Posts = 99

Next batch...

Minimum Posts = 0
Maximum Posts = 9

How to edit the email message:

If you would like to change the email message, edit the following phrase:

inactivemembers_message

All phrases start with inactivemembers for easy editing.

Installation:

• Download inactivemembers_v1.0.zip and unzip it.
• Upload the Andy folder to your server. The correct location is library/Andy.
• From your Admin Control Panel, go to the "Install Add-on" page.
• Upload the addon-InactiveMembers_v1.0.xml file and click the Install Add-on button.