Email to all zero post count members ? Last active date list?

[landyvlad]

I have about 400 (half of the membership) with a zero post count.
Some are dodgy but the bulk, based on previous experience, may well be legit lurkers.

Is there a way I can send an email / newsletter to all members of the forum with a ZERO post count, but not the others?



Also is there a way (rather than going into each of those profiles) to get a report of last active date?
If they have never posted and never been active I could probably kill them off.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

You could create a postcount group for this. First group 0 posts, second group 1 post. Then you can use the first group to send a newsletter to users who have never posted anything.

Also, I think the admin side memberlist allows you to sort users by registration date or last active date, I've sometimes used it myself to prune inactive users that haven't visited the forum in a long time.

There is also mod called Email inactive users, that kind of combines these features automatically. 

[br360]

From the wiki-

If you would like to send a newsletter to users in a particular post count group, you need to enable permissions for post count groups in Admin > Permissions > Settings > Enable permissions for post count based groups.

https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:News_and_newsletters

That will send newsletters to specific post count groups, so you can do as Lex suggested and create a new zero post count group

Also, I think the admin side memberlist allows you to sort users by registration date or last active date

Yes, there is an option to search by last active in admin> members> View all members

[landyvlad]

Thanks all for your reponses.

Yep I knew I could sort by last active etc, but was hoping I coulld send an email to people last active before a certain date... doesn't matter though.

As to the idea of a zero post count member group... why the heck didn't I think of that?  It should do the trick well. Thanks

[Illori]

That will send newsletters to specific post count groups, so you can do as Lex suggested and create a new zero post count group

by default in SMF there is always a post count group for those with 0 posts, you dont need to create one.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

That will send newsletters to specific post count groups, so you can do as Lex suggested and create a new zero post count group

by default in SMF there is always a post count group for those with 0 posts, you dont need to create one.

I do believe the default newbie group includes all members with under 50 posts, so this is why the one extra group.

[Illori]

newbie is all users from 0 posts up to 49 jr. member from 50 until 100.
SMF by default has to have a group for 0 posts or bad things will happen.

you can add a group for users with 1+ posts but you cannot add a group for users with 0 posts as one already exists.

[Arantor]

Not even 'by default'. SMF *has* to have this otherwise really bad things happen.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

And that is what I was aiming at. You need a new post count group to limit the first group to only 0 post members.
Granted, I might have not made that very clear that I meant the 1 post limit as the new group, not the 0 post limit.

[landyvlad]

Cheers

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

You're welcome

[landyvlad]

Well I succesfully managed to create  new post count group for 1-49 post members, leaving a 0 post count group so all seems to have been done correctly.  Ta muchly.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Glad to hear