Comments on: WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.2

By: Brian Pinneo

Brian Pinneo — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:18:30 +0000

Awesome plugin! Thanks a million.

Would it be possible to truncate the post within the email to sort of push people to go to the site?

By: The Daily Sketch

The Daily Sketch — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:14:57 +0000

This plugin does not play well with Counterize at all. It apparently occupies the exact link space as Counterize and tries to find files in the Counterize table.

By: JohnP

JohnP — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:41:24 +0000

It finally occurred to me that I should check for conflicts with other plugins (clue: email-notification worked when I installed it, then mysteriously stopped).

The culprit turned out to be Stilglog’s Coppermine Intergration Plugin:
http://mvdkwast.free.fr/stilglog/index.php/wordpress-plugins/coppermine-plugin/

I’ll update to his latest version and see if that fixes things.

Any idea about where the conflict might be occurring Brian?

By: JohnP

JohnP — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:05:36 +0000

My plugin has stopped sending notifications of posts – I thought it was working after I upgraded to v2.2 but I may possibly not have tested thoroughly enough.

The blog is at: http://judithgoodyear.com/blog/

Users can subscribe OK – confirmation email goes out – name and address is added to wp_email_list.

I can successfully email list subscribers from the Admin Area, export or remove them.

I did have problems accessing the Admin Area after I updated as the documentation described.

In addition to the double maillist directory solution I described in comment 22, I also found I can just use one /maillist/ in the website main directory by adding the line:

$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

just before line 19 of wp-email-notification-index.php.

Unfortunately, the script does not send out notifications with either configuration.

I’ve tried downloading a new copy of the plugin and re-installing, I’ve tried changing the Blog URL and Site URL settings, and I’ve tried changing the theme, I’ve used up most of today going up all sorts of blind alleys actually, but no joy.

Any clues as to what else I should be looking at would be MUCH appreciated.

By: BJ Cameron

BJ Cameron — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:56:45 +0000

Hi,

I am desperately trying to get this plugin working with Postie. If I post to the site from the blog, the plugin works great. However, when I email the blog entry in(using postie plugin), it posts to the site, but it does not email users.

I understand this is because of a bug within WordPress (the xml-rpc hook), but according to wordpress this has been “fixed”, http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/967

help?

Thanks,

By: Matts

Matts — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:59:29 +0000

I’m having the same problem as isnaini (post number 3). I do not understand what Marcus (post number 23) means by “change the opening.” All my db info is correct, and the table does exist. To be even more specific, here’s the exact wording of the error:

Could not successfully run query (SELECT * FROM wp_email_list_config WHERE id = ’1′) from DB: No database selected

Any further help? Thanks!

By: Sergio

Sergio — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:08:43 +0000

Hi folks,

just to confirm that i suffer the same situation explained in my previous post when sending plain text notification emails. My blog operates with european 8859-15 charset, and mails received are not compatible with that charset. They seem to be formatted with UTF-8, as ampersand characters are not respected.

Do you have any hint on what´s happening?

Thanks in advance

My WP is available at http://www.sahw.com/wp

By: solace

solace — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:07:29 +0000

the html formatted emails in v2.2, while great, are not working w/ Gmail for some reason. it just displays ‘em as code…

any ideas?

By: Sergio

Sergio — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:54:09 +0000

Hi,
Just implemented the plugin. Everything works fine, but my blog operates with charset=ISO-8859-15″, and once HTML mails are sent by the plugin, they seem to be formatted with other charset, such as UTF8, as special characters are not properly displayed.

Where can I specify HTML mail charset? Any hint?

Regards,

By: solace

solace — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:05:39 +0000

seems like it may just be Gmail, anyone have an idea for a fix?

or how i can get it to display plain text if the HTML fails?

By: solace

solace — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:48:27 +0000

while the new HTML template kicks tons of butt, it doesn’t always display correctly.

for one, gmail displays the HTML code w/o rendering it as html, yet Thunderbird displays it just fine.

any idea why this would be?

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:08:50 +0000

One major installation note that I have yet to find in any documentation is that you need to install the plugin’s tables in your WP database. So in the /maillist/install.php form put the same DB Name, DB User, DB Password information as what you used for installing WP originally. If you don’t, then everything can work properly except emailing new blog entries.

That might help your troubleshooting a little better

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:01:02 +0000

If you see something like this

Could not successfully run query (SELECT * FROM wp_email_list) from DB: No Database Selected

you might want to change the opening

By: JohnP

JohnP — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:33:34 +0000

The only way I can get this to work is to use the double maillist directory technique described by Dan in comment 14. My WordPress installation is at example.com/blog/

With maillist list directory at example.com/maillist/ only, I get an error similar to Vidal (18) when I click the Email Notification tab in Admin.

With maillist list directory at example.com/blog/maillist/ only, attempting to subscribe returns a 404 page not found.

Two maillist directories fix both problems, but it seems kind of clunky.

By: Seb

Seb — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:26:28 +0000

Hi,

i got a little prob with this plugin. I installed it. I got no error at all, i can add email adresses from the form with no problem. (confirmation emails works fine)

In the option menu, everything looks ok, no errors, i can import / export email adresses and so on.

The dropdown menu in the writing editor is there too.

But, when i write an article, i don’t receive any mail at all… and can’t find where i made a mistake.

Thanks for you help

By: Psykotik

Psykotik — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:45:30 +0000

I was going to be really mad… but I finally found a scripting error that was impeding the sql connect.

When creating the file “wpemn_config.php”, instructions are incorrect. Please revise “mailist/install.php” at line 177, replacing “

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:45:15 +0000

I love this plug in, I use it on 3 of my sites.

Do you plan to ever add the option of “daily digest” in this plugin? I update 3 or 4 times daily and I don’t want to fill the subscribers inbox.

I do offer an RSS feed, this would just be an alternative.

Thanks.

By: Vidal

Vidal — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:32:22 +0000

Hi,

I’ve been using this great plugin from the beginning, always worked fine. I’ve just upgraded toWordpress 1.5.2 and version 2.2 of this plugin. In the Admin panel for this plugin i get this error

Warning: main(/maillist/wpemn_config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sense4de/public_html/rossifiles/wp-content/plugins/wp-email-notification/index.php on line 19

Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/maillist/wpemn_config.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/lib/php’) in /home/sense4de/public_html/rossifiles/wp-content/plugins/wp-email-notification/index.php on line 19
Import Addresses :: Export Addresses :: Remove Addresses :: Email List Subscribers :: Update Settings

Everything still seems to work fine, but i get this very annoying message and cannot use al the funtctions of this plugin anymore.

Can naybody pleas help me?

Thank you,
Vidal

By: Joel Walsh

Joel Walsh — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:05:15 +0000

It seems to install OK, but then once I go to options–>email notification, look what happens: (what do any of these errors mean?)

WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.2 Admin Area

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/maillist/wpemn_config.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/newslett:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/newslett/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-email-notification/index.php on line 19

Warning: main(/maillist/wpemn_config.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/newslett/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-email-notification/index.php on line 19

Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/maillist/wpemn_config.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/newslett/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-email-notification/index.php on line 19
Import Addresses :: Export Addresses :: Remove Addresses :: Email List Subscribers :: Update Settings

IMPORT

DB Query Error!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:38:13 +0000

I’ve been experimenting with this plugin and have several accounts (e.g. gmail, msn, etc.) that I’ve sent the html formatted message to see how it appears. I am sending the full content of the post and for some reason in MS Outlook there are no scroll bars. It just seems to cut the message off. This is not the case for web-based email readers, which work fine. Has anyone else seen this problem or can offer a solution? Thanks.