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I already wrote about digest in an earlier post:

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Interesting feature.

But how shall it be implemented? I run my forum on a Linux server. I could set up a cron job to be executed daily. This cron job could send out the digest email to the "digest subscribers".

Does anyone have an idea of how to make a platform independent solution?

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As I said, I don't know how a digest system should be implemented.

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I believe you should implement the digest as asp page and let users implement the scheduling system (cron in Unix, service on Windows or a free asp component by NewIntelligence you can find on NewTools Package

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I believe you should implement the digest as asp page and let users implement the scheduling system (cron in Unix, service on Windows or a free asp component by NewIntelligence you can find on NewTools Package

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I would need to supply a program that loops through all "digest subscribers" in the database, compose appropriate emails, and send them. This program must be executed daily (or whatever time period we choose).

Is it possible to execute an ASP file from a scheduling system like cron? If so, I could create the ASP file that loops through the database.

I'm working on a similar system on a web site. It is a Java program called weekly by cron. This Java program creates a newsletter, inserts it in the Snitz database, checks wich users that subscribe to the newsletter (this MOD) and emails them. However, this solution is Java based, not ASP, so it can not be used by people using ASP-only hosts.

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Maybe we should also change the word "Subscribe" at the top of the column to an image? Does anyone have images we can use?

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Well, I am not very good at image editing, so someone more experienced could do a better job than I, but I did come up with the following:

To replace the word 'Subscribe':



For Categories/Forums NOT Subscribed to, with alt=Click here to Subscribe:



For Categories/Forums subscribed to, with alt='Click here to Unsubscribe':



That's all I managed to come up with, anyway

*If Knowledge is Power, and Power Corrupts, what hope is there for Mankind *

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I have found a bug with this, and that is if for example User1 at adomain.com wants to get replies and so does User2 at anotherdomain.com also wants to get replies as well for the same message, your code ends up sending this;

<user1@adomain.com;user2@anotherdomain.com>

and of course sends it to anotherdomain.com. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this up?

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I have found a bug with this, and that is if for example User1 at adomain.com wants to get replies and so does User2 at anotherdomain.com also wants to get replies as well for the same message, your code ends up sending this;

<user1@adomain.com;user2@anotherdomain.com>

and of course sends it to anotherdomain.com. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this up?

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My mod makes creates a string with all recipients, strRecipients. This string is used in inc_mail.asp for distributing the email. I use ChiliMail, which demands a string like "user1@adomain.com;user2@anotherdomain.com". Obviously your mail component doesn't like this string. I suppose I will have to create different strRecipients for different mail components? Which do you use?

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I am using the JMail for sending from the forums on a Windows 2000 server.

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JMail.AddRecipient "user1@adomain.com"
JMail.AddRecipient "user2@anotherdomain.com"

ChiliMail.To = "user1@adomain.com;user2@anotherdomain.com"

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I am using the JMail for sending from the forums on a Windows 2000 server.

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I found a JMail FAQ. According to the FAQ, we must use another strategy for adding several recipients than with ChiliMail. The way to do it with JMail is like this:

JMail.AddRecipient "user1@adomain.com"
JMail.AddRecipient "user2@anotherdomain.com"

The way to do it with ChiliMail is like this:

ChiliMail.To = "user1@adomain.com;user2@anotherdomain.com"

This means that I will have to re-deign the code. In the meantime, you can solve the problem by setting No of addresses per email to 1. This will work with all email components.

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This means that I will have to re-deign the code. In the meantime, you can solve the problem by setting No of addresses per email to 1. This will work with all email components.

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Set objNewMail = Server.CreateObject("Jmail.smtpmail")
objNewMail.ServerAddress = strMailServer
arrayStr = Split(strRecipients, ";", -1, vbTextCompare)
For Each emailStr in arrayStr
   objNewMail.AddRecipient emailStr
Next
objNewMail.Sender = strSender
objNewMail.Subject = strSubject
objNewMail.body = strMessage

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Version 4 now available:
http://www.paddla.space2u.com/subscription_mod_4.zip

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

It is possible to subscribe on:
* Topic
* Forum
* Category
* "Everything"

When you check a checkbox, you subscribe to the corresponding forum, topic etc. To unsubscribe, simply uncheck the checkbox. When someone replies to a topic or posts a new topic, the subscribers get an email which contains the text and an URL to the topic.

The admin interface makes it possible to switch subscription on/off on different forums, categories etc. The admin interface also makes it possible to configure how many email adresses that shall be put on the "to" of each email. For example, for emailing 1000 members, we can send 10 email, each containing 100 email adresses in the "to" of the email.

NEWS COMPARED TO MOD VERSION 3

1) Subscription on category.
2) Subscription on "everything".
3) Admin interface makes it possible to switch subscription on/off for every forum, category etc.

Regards,

-Anders M

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When I try to access this mod at the quoted URL, I am getting a network password box. Has the URL changed?

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function SendSubscribeEmail(topicId, topicName, forumId, forumName, catId, postedByName, url, isReply)
	if not emailAddrBuilt then
		BuildEmailAddr topicId, forumId, catId
		emailAddrBuilt = True
	end if
	strSql = "SELECT S_NO_OF_EMAILADDR FROM " & strTablePrefix & "SUBSCR_CONFIG"
	set rsSubscrConf = my_Conn.Execute (strSql)
	noOfEmailAddr = rsSubscrConf("S_NO_OF_EMAILADDR")
	rsSubscrConf.close
	set rsSubscrConf = nothing
	strSubject = "[" & forumName & "] "
	if isReply then
		strSubject = strSubject & "RE: "
	end if
	strSubject = strSubject & topicName
	strMessage = "Posting in " & strForumTitle & vbCrLf
	strMessage = strMessage & "Written by: " & postedByName & vbCrLf
	strMessage = strMessage & url & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & txtMessage & vbCrLf
	strRecipients = ""
	counter = 0
	For i = 1 To maxNoOfMembers