Documentation is Missing for this Module.

I've downloaded zipped block, unzipped and then uploaded to blocks area on my site. Nothing!

Turn editing on and go to blocks, but the quickmail block is missing from the list - help please.

Needed to enter Administration section for quickmail to be initialised ... now works.

I have translated into Spanish, who should I notify so it can be included?

Probably best to send it to Mark Nielsen

I used this block extensively in last semester's course. It worked great. Only problem I ever had was when the McAfee on the server kept stopping the mail, requiring a fix to mcafee.

There is now a Spanish lang file in contrib. Cheers, Mark

I get the following error:
PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\Inetpub\www.esab.pt\mediateca\moodle\lib\phpmailer\class.smtp.php on line 2049
How can i increase the Maximum execution time?
Thank You
Mario

It appears that this block is not completely compatible with v1.6 yet, or am I missing something?

I installed quickmail, but I get errors in display titles of this block. It seems like blockname.

I'm using Moodle ver1.6. Somebody have the same problem?

I too noticed the blockname but the functionality seems fine.

Copy the language file
from {moodle_base_directory}/blocks/quickmail/lang/en/block_quickmail.php
to {moodle_data_directory}/lang/en/block_quickmail.php

Tnx for the help Freddy. Unfortunately I do not see a lang/en in my moodledata dir. I see:

en_us_utf8

Just changed my language to en_us_utf8 and it works... tnx

Quickmail now has a Japanese translation thanks to Mitsuhiro Yoshida

Quickmail now has Documentation found here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quickmail_block (or via the Documentation link way up above).

The language problems described in the above comments should be gone now because I added an en_utf8 directory and language file to CVS.

We routinely use Quickmail and allow our students to use it also. However, when a student sends email to the instructor and to the assistant, asking for help, we both get the email but we don't see that the email was also sent to the other. So we both answer it (fortunately we normally both have the same answer). It would be handy to see all recipients of the email. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,
Tom

Works for me on Moodle1.6.1.
Thank you very much.

Just tried updating quickmail and am getting the following error:

Block quickmail tables could NOT be set up successfully!

Ideas?

Found the problem - a residual database entry left from the previous install. Deleted it and all is fine.

I get the following error when trying to send email using this block

ERROR: Could not instantiate mail function.
Quickmail
The following users were not emailed due to email error...

Ive installed block for moodle 1.6.1+

Any ideas?

I got the same problem that Jeff Wood had. "Block quickmail tables could NOT be set up successfully!"

His solution was "Found the problem - a residual database entry left from the previous install. Deleted it and all is fine."

Can anyone tell me how I can delete database entries from a previous install?

Can this be done using the MySQL Admin 2.8.2 "module" from Martin Dougiamas?

I am new to Moodle and I am having trouble getting quickmail to work. The error comes up as soom as I log into Moodle .... Module "quickmail" is not readable - check permissions
I believe that I have got all the files and have located them correctly in /mod.

Where/ how do I fix the permissions? What should they be?

Thanks for any help.

MMMMMM .... the folder goes into /blocks not /mod
There are none so blind as those who do not read!

Work perfectly.

Thanks for the big help

Hi. I am getting the blockname error all over and I can't seem to click in the subject line of a message (I can copy/paste). I was just upgraded to 1.6.1 by my host. I am a novice at this stuff - would anyone be willing to spell out the steps (precisely) for me? Thanks! John

Hi,
You should verify if you have mdl_block_quickmail_log table (created by a previous version - this is a residual database) and delete it.
After that probably everything will work fine.
Marius

Thank you for this excellent block. I have it on my main site and it works perfectly. On a test site running 1.6.1 the students seem to be able to see and use the block and I can't turn this ability off...

Hi Marius,
Thanks for your post to help me out. Please excuse my ignorance, but where should I look for the mdl_block_quickmail_log table? I don't see it in the Quickmail folder through FileZilla. Should I be looking elsewhere?
Thanks,
John

Is it ready for 1.7?

for John Blaser - the mdl_block_quickmail_log table is stored in a database. FileZilla probably shows you the php files, not the database.

The database information (servername, database name, etc.) should be in your config.php file in the top moodle folder. You can use this informaation to access the database, assuming of course that you have permissions to do so.

MySQL Admin 2.8.2, mentioned above, ought to do the trick for you. I have not tried it, but I have used phpMyAdmin, which this is based on. (http://www.phpmyadmin.net)

If you didn't install your database when Moodle was installed, find someone who can tell you where the database is, or ask them to make the database changes for you.

I have translated into Hungarian, who should I notify?

I've got this message, and would really love to have quickmail working for 1.7!

"Block quickmail is not compatible with the current version of Moodle and needs to be updated by a programmer."

Is there a quick change I can make to one or more of the files?

Hi,

any chance of getting an idea if/when it officially supports Moodle 1.7 with its roles?

thanks!

I second this question? Anyone know if it works in 1.7? Thanks!!

I am currently using Quickmail in Moodle 1.7 - it works.

Joe,

it seems you have first installed it into Moodle 1.6 and later updated Moodle to 1.7, right?

I doubt that it would work with a fresh install of 1.7.

It doesn't work in my fresh install 1.7

I can't seem to make it work on my fresh install of 1.7 either. Bummer. The instructors want email!

Amen to that (working in 1.7.1) --

This works well for us in our 1.6.3 install and is very popular with users. Is it correct that users logged in as guest should be able to message all users in a course to which they are allowed access?

Hmmmm.... Keep getting this on our 164+ installation:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: has_capability() in /home/aiken/public_html/moodle/blocks/quickmail/block_quickmail.php on line 117

I'm trying to install quickmail in moodle 1.8, After unziping it to blocks\quickmail

I can't see it under the admin page in blocks...

please help me to install it properly in Moodle 1.8??

FYI.  The dowload links for 1.8 and 1.6 are mixed up.

Sorry about the link mix up. The editing interface is rather confusing This might be why Art is having problems.

I can't get the 'Select All' or 'Deselect All' to work in Firefox 2.0.0.2. I have checked under Tools and Javascript is enabled. The functions work fine when I try them in IE.

Module quickmail: C:\xampplite\moodle/mod/quickmail/version.php was not readable

I get this error when I try to install quickmail on version 1.8.  There is no version.php file.

I've just tried installing under the latest 1.8 and the admin page just goes blank- it's the same with Wen Hao Chuang's Quickmail for large classes.

I am happy about quickmail. It works fine.

In the version 1.8 I miss the groups. Who know's how to change the code for working with groups.

I got Quickmail block installed with no problems as Admin...as student, block does not appear. Read this in documentation: in Moodle 1.7 or later, the Allow Students to use Quickmail setting has been removed. To allow students (or any other role) to use Quickmail, just override the Quickmail block capability called block/quickmail:cansend.

Where do I find thisQuickmail block capability??

Screenshot shows quickmail interface retaining the course breadcrumb when composing messages, but my 1.8 installation loses the course breadcrumb when going to compose message screen. Is there a fix?

Thanks for any help!

A

I suspect that quick mail will do exactly what I need (a quick way for students to email each other and me) but I too am confused about how to make the block visable to students (I am running Moodle 1.8).  If someone could let me know where to find the capability and how to modify it (do we need to include a comment stament or delete the line etc.) that would be most helpful.

Many thanks!

In block_quickmail.php in function check_permission() comment out the has_capability line and instead do
return true;
This essentially overrides all roles. Otherwise students have to be allowed per course to see it.

Is the latest version for 1.8.2? or for 1.9?
It would be nice to know which is the version that works well with Groups.
I upgraded to 1.8.2 and all the Quickmail history was erased and all the courses that had Groups cannot see them anymore. Is only one big group!

Attempted to fix two bugs: the breadcrumb and group problems in Moodle 1.8. Things should be working as they were in Moodle 1.7 now. Please allow time for the downloads to update before testing.

Cheers, Mark

The latest 1.8.x version works with groups, but you must have "force groups?" set to "yes".

Is there are reason for requiring "force groups"? I could have sworn we used quickmail with groups previously with "force" set to no.

This is a great module, but I'm having one issue I can't seem to figure out? Essentially, we have a course/alumni lounge in our Moodle and instead of a student role we have an alumni role. While I can seem to figure out how to enable our alumni to see the block to use it by editing their role...they can't use it to send because they are not defined as students in the course but rather alumni. Is there a way to override this and make non-standard users (custom roles) show up to be sent to?

To follow-up on my earlier post, according to the wiki, the 1.7 era version of Quickmail wasn't obligated to use groups: "Group mode: set the group mode of Quickmail. This setting is disabled if Force group mode is turned On in the course."

So why are we forcing the use of groups now?

My bad. I just realized that by editing the Quickmail block for the course, you can access the group settings (thus allowing Quickmail to use groups while not forcing the rest of the course do use them).

Hi All,

I have managed to install quick mail so that a teacher is able to view the block...
When they come to send the email an error message appears reading -

email error:
Rickard, John

Any ideas? - are there any settings to tell the block where the mail server is?

I am using Moodle 1.83 and Quickmail works except for the select all and deselect all buttons. I have to click the radio buttons for each student.

Does anybody know where i can download quickmail for moodle 1.5.3?

I am using Moodle 1.8.3+ and Quickmail works except for the select all and deselect all buttons. I have to click the radio buttons for each student. This happens only in Firefox - IE behaviour is correct.

I am having problems with the module. When I send an email, the Display name shows, but the sender's email does not show up. Both the Display name and email will give the same name, but no email. So, students cannot reply, because there is no email. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Noticed in latest version on a moodle 1.9 install the following:

settings (was found in the block for each course) missing

ALL site users are listed and not just course users.

Am I missing something?

Jeff

There´s much more problems in this block. If u set groups in your course settings and say Force, you see a white screen when using quickmail (no error warnings in the debug mode). The group function did not work! What i not understand, there´s new files in the cvs with different version, did i download the block here from plugin site, i have the old file versions inside. The new file versions fix only two errors, first a java script error to choose the students, second the problem with the breadcrumb, that the course was not showing. The problem with the groups still exist! I wil create a entry in the issue tracker next days.

Andy

I can confirm the bug reported by Jeff Wood above: In Moodle 1.9.x, the "Settings..." link within the Quickmail blocks are missing. There is no way to configure anything. All users are offered as possible recipients instead of just the course users. The From address is not correct, too. As a conclusion, that version of Quickmail should not be used within Moodle 1.9, otherwise you are opening a big security hole.

As an additional note, turning on the site's Edit mode brings up configuration screen. The only option to set is "Group mode", but it does not work Changing it from the default "No groups" to one of the other options "Separate groups" or "Visible groups" results in the error

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function groups_get_groups() in /(...)/moodle/blocks/quickmail/email.php on line 231"

when clicking on "Compose".

Had the same problem as above when I upgraded from 1.8 to 1.9 looks like the groups_get_groups and groups_get_groups_for_current_user methods have been deprecated.

I have made the changes required on my server and works a treat again. we don't run CVS here but imported into our SVN and created a patch from there. How did you want me to get this to you?

Cheers
Kris

Kris,

I think the best way to submit your fixes to the community is opening a new bug at http://tracker.moodle.org/ selecting "Non-core contributed modules" as the project and "Module: Quickmail" as the component. Then, attach the patches or corrected files there and post the Tracker ID here.

Thanks,
rob.

I've installed this in 1.8.4+ and as administrator no problem. However to allow students to use the block I have modified the function check_permission as stated above. However, now when a student tries to access the Quickmail they get a "Sorry you do not have the correct permissions to use Quickmail".

I have set the student permission to allow in the Admin/ Users/ permissions/ Define roles area. I am using MyMoodle for the front page and sticky blocks to set the Quickmail block. I have tried all options of the group settings with no luck.

What am I missing? 

Mike

We have an infuriating problem anytime we install the latest Quickmail on Moodle 1.9+. I follow the instructions, but only the Moodle admin seems able to send email via the block. If I put the block in any course, the instructor can see the block, but when attempting to send an email I get, Sorry you do not have the correct permissions to use Quickmail. Even if I add instructor, student, and authenticated user roles to Allow for Quickmail, this error comes up. We see this on several installs of Moodle. Anyone else seen this error? We like the block, but it really has gotten buggy in later releases.

Hi Moodlers

We've just upgraded our Moodle site to 1.9 (from 1.8), and last night I "broke" Quickmail!!! It seemed to happen at exactly the same time that I added a non-editing teacher as a hidden role ... now when you follow the Quickmail "Compose" link, it returns a nasty blank screen!

I deleted the hidden role, QM still not working; I deleted the QM block and then re-added it - still no joy. I made this boo-boo on 2 courses (both configured as metacourses, if that makes any difference?). The other 32 courses on the site work fine, it's just the first two that I've killed.

Any ideas? Is it just a case of waiting till an upgraded QM for 1.9 is released?

Any idea when this will be released for 1.9?

I am upgrading to 1.9 from 1.6 any time soon, if i download the latest version of quick mail will it work on 1.9?

Hello Emma.

It will work. I'm already using it.

We recently upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.9.1, and subsequently got this error on the "Notificiations" page, coming from the Quickmail module.

"Version mismatch: assignment can't downgrade 2007040500 -> 2006021501"

Now, block_quickmail.php v 1.10 (dated 2007/03/02) contains this:

function init() {
$this->title = get_string('blockname', 'block_quickmail');
$this->version = 2006021501; // YYYYMMDDXX
}

but mdl_block.version for the quickmail record was 2007040500.

So, I changed the line in block_quickmail.php to this:

$this->version = 2007040500; // YYYYMMDDXX

and now it seems to be OK.

I am not sure why there is this difference in version numbers in the first place.

Doh. Answered my own question. I was using Wen Hao Chuang's "Quickmail for large classes" before the upgrade, hence the problem.

OK I have got "go ahead" from Mark to help co-maintain this block (with Mark and Michael). Just committed the patch for email.php so now GROUP should work fine with quickmail block. For more details see CONTRIB-346. For "quickmail for large classes" (aka quickmailv2) we still disable the GROUP support at this moment, but this issue should be fixed later this Winter. Just a quick FYI.

We seem to have a problem with students being allowed to use quickmail (like Greg above). In the interim disabling the check permissions in the block_quickmail.php
remove: or !$this->check_permission()
from

if (empty($this->instance) or !$this->check_permission()) {
return $this->content;
}

and email.php
comment out
/// if (!$haspermission) {
/// error('Sorry, you do not have the correct permissions to use Quickmail.');
/// }
and it seems to be working, but this is obviously not an ideal situation!

Cheers

David

I discovered that the select all and deselect links don't work because the javascript function block_quickmail_toggle doesn't exist on the page email.php.  I see that the function is present in the file javascript.php within quickmail files but the file email.php doesn't not include javascript.php so the function is never loaded. I am using Moodle version 1.9.2 with the latest version of quickmail (1.19). Anyone else having this problem?  I haven't tried doing an include of javascript.php to try to solve the problem yet.

Hi!

Look to this error:

[10-Dez-2008 15:46:46] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function groups_get_groups() in /moodle/blocks/quickmail/email.php on line 231

The code:

 // set the groups variable

 switch ($groupmode) {

 case VISIBLEGROUPS:

 $groups = groups_get_groups($course->id);

 break;



 case SEPARATEGROUPS:

 $groups = groups_get_groups_for_current_user($course->id);

 break;

 }

 

The course does use separated groups and force.

Moodle 1.9.3+ (Build: 20081204)

Hello all,

I am running the latest quickmail version in Moodle 1.9.  Everything was working fine until in one course I decided to set the group mode to 'Visible Groups' from 'No Groups'.  When I went to compose an email, I got:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function groups_get_groups() in /home/vwww/bept/moodle/blocks/quickmail/email.php on line 231

When I reset it back to 'No groups', it works fine again.  However, in courses that have 'Force Groups', composing a quickmail message yields the same error.

Any assistance in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Paul

Hello all,

i'm trying to install quickmail without success

i'running moodle 1.9.4, downloaded the latest version of quickmail, uploaded it to the /blocks-directory, unzipped it, loggin in as admin, clicked on "messages" - nothing but a blank screen appeared...
apparently this had happend before with other versions (1.8, forum entry from Robin Trangmar).

does anyone have any idea how to fix this - i'm kind of helpless because installing other modules worked out just fine.

thanks, ina

hello,

The latest quickmail is happily running on my Moodle 1.9.4 and do send mails to groups I guess you forgot to go first to Administration to setup the table.

Current version has some problems with Moodle 1.9.4 that are only detected when in debug mode ( deprecated usage of print_header).

You will find at this URL (since I cannot add attachent to comments here) http://cipcnet.insa-lyon.fr/Members/ppollet/public/quickmail-1.9.4-pp.zip

a patched version for 1.9..4 that adresses the following :

• no more deprecated warnings with moodle 1.9.4
• deletion of individual messages in history fixed by first requesting confirmation (current version deletes all history without confirmation !)
  
• french translation updated
  

for some reasons the link above extends all over the page and comments cannot be edited ;-(

link is :

http://cipcnet.insa-lyon.fr/Members/ppollet/public/quickmail-1.9.4-pp.zip

This installs without any indicated errors on my 1.9.5 system.  When I click on the Compose or History links in the block, however, I get:

PHP Notice: print_header() was sent a string as 3rd ( Quickmail) parameter. This is deprecated in favour of an array built by build_navigation(). Please upgrade your code.

• line 2467 of lib\weblib.php: call to debugging()
• line 340 of blocks\quickmail\email.php: call to print_header()

in D:\Websites\lmstst\lib\weblib.php on line 6939 PHP Notice: Navigation needs to be updated to use build_navigation()

• line 3669 of lib\weblib.php: call to debugging()
• line 51 of theme\dickinsonNEW\header.html: call to print_navigation()
• line 2676 of lib\weblib.php: call to include()
• line 340 of blocks\quickmail\email.php: call to print_header()

in D:\Websites\lmstst\lib\weblib.php on line 6939

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
David

Hello All

I recently started using Quickmail which I find to be very useful. However, as per Tom McGovern's message above, I think it would be useful when viewing the History tab to be able to see who the recipients were. Is there some way of doing this?

Cheers.