DragonByte Mail is a professional mailing list mod with advanced subscription management features. Additionally, it has a newsletter feature that highlights your most popular threads.

Uses
DragonByte Mail is the perfect solution for any forum who wish to send out large quantities of mail to users on a mailing list. It lets admins and users have fine-grained access to subscriptions, and also sends out automated newsletters with powerful algorithms for determining popular content.


Major Features:

Analytics Data Gathering: Data is gathered regarding how many of your users open your emails, and how long they read them for. This can be disabled per mailing list. This data will power advanced delivery features, ensuring maximum engagement with your content.

Automated Newsletters: Your users will receive an email containing the most popular threads since the last newsletter was sent. They can unsubscribe at any moment, or increase/decrease frequency of newsletters, without being logged in.

Automatic "Unsubscribe" Link Creation: A secure link to unsubscribe themselves from the mailing list will be automatically added to the bottom of the mail. It does not require the user to be logged in, so it complies with spam policies set forth by mail providers.

Mail History: Each past sent mail can be viewed at any time from the front-end.

Advanced Subscription Management: Users can quickly and easily (un)subscribe from the mailing list via the mailing list directory, or the admin can manually change the subscription status in the AdminCP.

SMTP Email Validation: Email addresses are automatically validated by connecting to the mail server via SMTP. This feature helps eliminate bounced email before they get a chance to bounce. Validation happens automatically, or you can manually validate them via CLI by running php cmd.php dbtech-mail:validate-emails &lt;numEmails&gt; (where <numEmails> is the number of email addresses you wish to validate).

Inactivity Reminders: You can optionally enable inactivity reminders, where users who have been inactive for X days will receive a reminder email about their account. You can also control which user groups receive these emails, as well as how many times they are reminded.

Amazon SNS Bounce Handling: Via an API endpoint you can automatically handle complaints and bounces from Amazon SES. See the FAQ for setup instructions.


Complete Feature List

AdminCP

General Settings

• Navbar Tab (Disabled / Left side of navbar / Right side of navbar with the Alert tab)
• Enable Sign-Up Confirmation (users will need to confirm their subscription to the mailing list)
• Enable Unsubscription Feedback
• Inactivity Reminders
  • Enabled
  • Included user groups
  • Inactivity threshold (in days)
  • Email reminder repetitions (how many times to remind a user)

Mailing List Management

• Create unlimited mailing lists with per-list usergroup permissions
• Search for users to see whether they have subscribed or unsubscribed
• Toggle users' subscription status
• Custom "From" email
• Choose whether to use the XenForo HTML wrapper or entirely custom HTML when sending this email - selecting Custom means you have complete control over the HTML in your email!
• Optionally instantly send email (recommended only for test mailing lists) or using the XenForo Mail Queue system (recommended for public mailing lists)
• Override SMTP settings per mailing list
• Permissions:
  • Can Subscribe
  • Default Subscribed
  • Cannot View List
  • Can View List
  • Can Send Mail
  • Can Manage
  • Can View Stats