[ARCHIVED] Postmaster (0.4.4) -A simple newsletter manager

Piru · 2008-07-30 09:19:58

I’m having problems creating new subscribers. I need to import a list of 200+ subscribers, but when using the method posted in the manual I get only the first user and address showing up. Furthermore, if I delete that subscriber it randomly shows up once in a while after refreshing the page. Very frustrating. :-) It gives me the idea that in one way or another the items aren’t properly deleted out of the DB. Has anyone encountered this problem?

I’m using Textpattern versie: 4.0.6 (r2805)
Postmaster Ben Bruce 0.4.4
Postmaster Library Ben Bruce 0.2.3

Edit: When deleting the faulty subscriber: “Deleted subscriber.” appears (so it’s supposed to be gone). Then, when going to Lists and afterwards returning to the Subscriber tab… the faulty (deleted) subscriber is there again.

Last edited by Piru (2008-07-30 09:32:28)

georgeM · 2008-07-31 17:41:58

Hi Ben and all,

I have read this support thread from beginning to end, and I can’t figure out why I’m still having problems. My main issue is that it would seem Postmaster does not automatically create the MySQL entries upon installation. Here’s what I did:

Using MySQL version: 5.0.51b Community Ed. + PHP version: 5.2.6
Installed Postmaster Library, activated it
Installed Postmaster, activated it
Went to the Admin —> Extensions tab and clicked Postmaster
Noticed the errors and found the solution to change site status to LIVE
Some errors disappeared but there were still some that remained
Removed all Postmaster plugins and reinstalled them
Still getting the following error related to tables not existing:

Here is a shot of the MySQL DB:

This sounds like a great plugin which is fully featured and does exactly what I need, so I’m really anxious to fix these errors and get everything setup!

Any help is greatly appreciated…thanks in advance!

Last edited by georgeM (2008-07-31 18:00:34)

Gallex · 2008-08-21 09:44:16

my newsletter e-mail form:

=============================
NEWSLETTER
=============================

Dear <txp:bab_pm_data display="subscriberName" />,

<txp:bab_pm_data display="Author" /> has posted a new article at <txp:site_url />.

Read article at: <txp:bab_pm_data display="link" />

Excerpt: <txp:bab_pm_data display="Excerpt" />

==============================

Unsubscribe: <txp:bab_pm_unsubscribeLink type="text" />

everything works well, but author’s name doesn’t appear in e-mail :(
can anybody tell me where i’m wrong?

sipke · 2008-08-21 10:08:13

Dear Ben,

First of all, many thanks for this great plugin, it works like a charm!

I have only one question: is it possible to give a name for admin, not just the email (so the Sender is not just an email address but name+address)? I cannot figure out how to implement this, and some spam filters score high if you send your email without Sender name.

Thanks in advance, awesome plugin!

maniqui · 2008-08-21 16:03:27

Gallex wrote:

everything works well, but author’s name doesn’t appear in e-mail :(
can anybody tell me where i’m wrong?

I can’t see anything wrong with your form. Could you try using <txp:author /> instead of the bab_pm_data tag?

THE BLUE DRAGON · 2008-08-21 17:13:46

sipke wrote:

Dear Ben,

First of all, many thanks for this great plugin, it works like a charm!

I have only one question: is it possible to give a name for admin, not just the email (so the Sender is not just an email address but name+address)? I cannot figure out how to implement this, and some spam filters score high if you send your email without Sender name.

Thanks in advance, awesome plugin!

THE BLUE DRAGON wrote:

ok I found how to chenge the “from” to a name:

edit the Postmaster Library and search for
$headers = "From: $listAdminEmail".
replace $listAdminEmail
with
Your name <blabla@domain.com>
or
Your name <$listAdminEmail>

so after all you got:
$headers = “From: Your name <blabla@domain.com>”.
or
$headers = “From: Your name <$listAdminEmail>”.

enjoy ;)

Last edited by THE BLUE DRAGON (2009-07-10 16:40:00)

Gallex · 2008-08-23 12:23:06

maniqui wrote:

I can’t see anything wrong with your form. Could you try using <txp:author /> instead of the bab_pm_data tag?

it helped. thank’s

fuls · 2008-09-03 13:32:18

Hi,

I’ve installed postmaster but it looks like it didn’t create tables in my database?

I’m getting this error:

Warning: Unknown character set: ‘utf’ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bab_pm_list_prefs ( `listID` int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, `listName` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `listDescription` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `listAdminEmail` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `listUnsubscribeUrl` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `listEmailForm` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `listSubjectLine` varchar(128) NOT NULL default ‘’, `catchall` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, PRIMARY KEY (`listID`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM CHARACTER SET = utf-8 in /public_html/site/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php on line 81

Warning: Unknown character set: ‘utf’ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bab_pm_subscribers ( `subscriberID` int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, `subscriberName` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberEmail` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberLists` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom1` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom2` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom3` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom4` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom5` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom6` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom7` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom8` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom9` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCustom10` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `subscriberCatchall` longtext NOT NULL default ‘’, `flag` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `unsubscribeID` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, PRIMARY KEY (`subscriberID`), UNIQUE (subscr in /public_html/site/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php on line 81

Warning: Table ‘trumdo01_bepanthen.bab_pm_list_prefs’ doesn’t exist INSERT INTO bab_pm_list_prefs values (‘1’,‘default’,‘All subscribers’,’‘,’‘,’‘,‘Notification: A new article has been posted at <txp:site_url />’,’‘) in /public_html/site/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php on line 81

Warning: Table ‘trumdo01_bepanthen.bab_pm_subscribers’ doesn’t exist INSERT INTO bab_pm_subscribers values (‘1’,‘Test’,‘test@test’,‘default’,‘custom1’,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,‘custom10’,’‘,’‘,‘2b9595b63092b70833e249811aeba2fd’) in /public_html/site/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php on line 81

Thanks!

net-carver · 2008-09-03 14:27:49

Fuls

Can you try this… edit your postmaster_library plugin and look for the bab_pm_createTables() function.

Replace this line…

	$dbcharset = $txpcfg['dbcharset'];

… with this one…

	$dbcharset = "'".$txpcfg['dbcharset']."'";

… save and try accessing the Postmaster tab again.

pieman · 2008-09-10 12:03:37

Hi

I’m using the latest versions on 4.06 and I seem to be having the same problem as mrdale

Even using the example text, repeated on multiple lines with altered names, I can only import the first one.

Dale, how did you solve your encoding issues?

Stu

Gallex · 2008-09-14 11:11:34

I changed my admin e-mail address under postmaster>lists tab, but it keeps sending the new subscriber posts to my old admin address :( how to fix it?

colak · 2008-09-14 12:50:41

Gallex wrote:

I changed my admin e-mail address under postmaster>lists tab, but it keeps sending the new subscriber posts to my old admin address :( how to fix it?

Hi Gallex you have to go to Extensions>Postmaster>lists and edit your address there

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