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Offline iProxy

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« on: June 08, 2009, 06:29:52 PM »
Hello, I have many members have losted login and I want send newsletters with

{$member.login} for can see login or search in admin for resend all informations for reload account... 

any idea ?
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2009, 07:31:08 PM »
When sending a Newsletter click on the 'here' in In this message you can use a few "variables". Click here for more information. and it will give you a list of all the available variables you can use in a newsletter.  I think {$member.link} - The current member's link. is what you are after.

There will be no way to give any general member the ability to 'search in admin' for any account details without granting them full access to modify accounts, etc.
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2009, 08:07:13 PM »
{$member.link} are not login.
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2009, 08:33:58 PM »
It's a link to their username and thus login name?!
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2009, 08:52:26 PM »
I use SMF 2.0 RC1 and I have sended malling to older members

{$member.link} = Display name

and not username.

it's possible bug.

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Re: newsletters
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2009, 09:03:48 PM »
Well you can include their {$member.email} which can be used to recover their details.  This will be consistent with whatever username/display name they use.
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2009, 02:18:01 PM »
Yes I have sended new newsletter with mail and link for recover account.

do you thinks it's possible add "PROFILE FIELDS" in newsletter


like last login date and others...
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2009, 08:46:15 PM »
Not with the current variables, from what I can tell.  But I'm sure some editing of code could allow for it, but I'm not sure where that would be.

You might want to create a mod request for that type of edit, if you're unable to do so yourself.
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2009, 12:29:00 PM »
I have 2 forum invision and SMF with invision it's possible. But I don't like very much add mod in beta version....
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2009, 10:33:33 AM »
Hello, do you still require assistance with this?

It would be possible to mod SMF for this, but you may well need to re-mod for RC2 and beyond.
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2009, 06:42:06 AM »
Hello !

I have a similar question. When i send out an newsletter i can only use {$member.name} which may differ from users login username.

1) So how can put the users login name to the newsletter ?
or 2) Is it possible to get an easy login mod by adding an hashlink (like in some forum software) which automaticly sets the approp. cookie ?
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2009, 03:57:14 PM »
1) Without modifying the code, you can't. It will use the name they have set to display, though you could force them never to be able to change the display name.

2) What would it do? I'm not sure I follow the request here. You can set SMF to remember a user forever from the normal login which would set the cookie...
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2009, 03:44:06 AM »
@ Question 2: Most of my users are over 40 years old and forget their password each time they try to login because the usually not using forum software. So i know that some php apps have the ability to force login by hash in get string.

Eg. I write a newsletter and put the link to a specific thread with the hash option to force login asap the user click on the newsletterlink; so the user bypasses the regular login option. I know this is unsafe but maybe it can be combinded with speacial user settings read only and block profile updates etc.

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/index.php?topic=98.0&forcelogin=md5hash
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Re: newsletters
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2009, 07:15:08 AM »
You *could* do that but it'd be somewhat unsafe to do, especially if it were MD5. Make that SHA1 and it's slightly better, though not a lot. Unless specially coded, it could be brute forced.


Suggestion 1: When they do actually log in, make sure they tick 'Forever'. Means they won't have to remember their password. Downside is that the browser is remembering something about their login.

Suggestion 2: Use OpenID, which means their login will be tied to another site. For example, I have a LiveJournal account, and I can set up an account on SMF such that my LiveJournal login details will let me in. Downside is that only OpenID 1.0 is supported in SMF 2.0, and OpenID 1.1 support is under development meaning it won't work on all sites that would otherwise support it.
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