This mod needs mods. I contacted the original mod author and he is not. What does that mean?, he did not author the mod, he paid to have it coded. I asked him for the coders name and he did not even remember. He was totally disinterested in doing any modifications or updates.
Why has no one made any better newsletter mods over the years as after all simple machines is pretty popular, I just don't get it.
I can say this if there is anyone out there who knows a decent coder who knows simple machines and would like to pay to have a decent newsletter mod built, or this newsletter modded/updated, we should talk as I would be in for paying for a better newsletter mod or having this newsletter updated.
I need a manual send newsletter option and I need a members list added that would list forum members and newsletter members side by side with a checkbox for deleting members. I would just delete all newsletter members who were not also forum members. Also I don't see why this newsletter did not just use the forum members table and pull email addresses from that, it did not need to ad another mysql table for newsletter member email addresses. I guess the guy who paid to have it coded wanted that feature.
On my forum I have it set to allow new members if they confirm their email address, it seems all new forum members are automatically signed up for newsletter membership. I require new members to make an introduction post right away after they become members, it is in my terms of service. I go in once per week and delete all the forum spammers who have signed up but have made no introduction post. Not sure why but the forum spammers only sign up, they never post anything, once I did have one of them post spam links right away, but only once so my delete new members with no post gets 99% of the spammers who sign up.
In phpmyadmin I have easily found the newsletter table that holds all the newsletter subscribers, I deleted them all. I'll make a forum post telling my members to re-sign up if they want the newsletter. Only problem, I'll need to go in and delete all newsletter members every 6 months to 1 year so eliminate the spammers who signed up but who's accounts were deleted but who's newsletter subscription was automatically added due to being new members. I'm not going to remember to take each spammers email address and go into the newsletter unsubscribe option and manually remove them, what a pain.
Robert