Quickmail

Blocks ::: block_quickmail
Maintained by Robert Russo, David Lowe
A block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. Developed by LSU.
Latest release:
3417 sites
775 downloads
115 fans
Current versions available: 7

Quickmail is a block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses.

Features

  • Multiple attachments
  • Drafts
  • Signatures
  • Filter by Role
  • Filter by Groups
  • Optionally allow Students to email people within their group.

License

Quickmail adopts the same license that Moodle does.

Authors

Quickmail was developed at Louisiana State University.

Potential privacy issues

The Privacy API is not implemented in this plugin.

Screenshots

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Contributors

Robert Russo (Lead maintainer)
Philip Cali: Former Lead Developer
jason peak: Former maintainer
David Elliott: Former maintainer
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Chad Mazilly: Former Maintainer
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Comments

  • Yong Ra
    Thu, 9 Jan 2014, 11:37 PM
    We have been having some issue with quickmail running on 2.6+. I know it is not yer approved for 2.6, but it has been running OK. The problem I was having is occationsally when I send email to multiple people, the email does not set sent to some of the people in the list. I have go back to history and send it to those people again. I looked at the system log and they do not seem to return any error. Has anyone seen this type of error? Is it because of it is running on 2.6+?

    Thank you.
  • Buddy Ethridge
    Thu, 9 Jan 2014, 11:42 PM
    Yong Ra, we are looking into a similar issue. Are you self-hosting or do you use a vended solution?
  • Yong Ra
    Sat, 11 Jan 2014, 1:23 AM
    Buddy,

    We are self hosting. I have about 5 different instances of Moodle 2.6+ running. Thank you.
  • Glen Sutton
    Wed, 15 Jan 2014, 7:19 PM
    For anyone else getting a 500 error. When I uninstalled the module and reinstalled it using the install add ons option (site admin - plugins - install add-ons) it worked just fine.
  • Cosmin Racautanu
    Mon, 27 Jan 2014, 9:42 PM
    Does anyone have any idea how to send a global email (with access to all the system users)? I only managed to send an email from a course to the enroled users or from a fake course with all the users enroled.
  • srujana tumu
    Thu, 30 Jan 2014, 9:19 AM
    HELP please:
    Getting Internal Server Error on Moodle v2.5.3. Installed quickmail v2.5 as block and when I click on 'Compose new email', below error is displayed.
    --------------------------------
    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@xxxxx.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
  • Michael Haskell
    Wed, 5 Feb 2014, 9:49 AM
    Echoing others questions smile , any ETA for a 2.6 release yet?
  • Chris Gronewold
    Tue, 11 Feb 2014, 1:25 AM
    ^ I am curious about the same thing. We are wanting to upgrade to the most current version but this may hold us back to 2.5...
  • Buddy Ethridge
    Tue, 11 Feb 2014, 4:48 AM
    Cosmin, we actually have a separate feature called Admin Email that we use to send global email. if you are interested, it can be found in our GitHub repo here: https://github.com/lsuits/admin_email
  • Buddy Ethridge
    Tue, 11 Feb 2014, 4:50 AM
    To all that are asking about 2.6 release, I cannot give an ETA. We only do site upgrades once yearly, so we usually jump two point releases. Our next upgrade will be to 2.7 in Summer 2014. If we get the opportunity to upgrade and test Quickmail for 2.6 before then, we will try to do so, but our development queue is backlogged, so I cannot make any promises. I do apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.
  • Just wondering . . .
    Thu, 27 Feb 2014, 11:54 AM
    OK, Buddy, very very sad, but thanks for the honest reply.

    -Derek
  • It's only an avatar...
    Tue, 4 Mar 2014, 6:50 AM
    I'm just going to test the current Quickmail in 2.6 as there are reports it is throwing an error in that version. But the stack trace looks like a simple fix...so can't be that much work! It's only changing some depreciated class name smile
  • Tomasz Muras
    Wed, 5 Mar 2014, 7:18 PM
    "More documentation on this plugin" link is wrong and needs to be updated.
  • Buddy Ethridge
    Fri, 7 Mar 2014, 1:22 AM
    Thanks Tomasz, I have updated that link.
  • David Elliott
    Thu, 13 Mar 2014, 9:53 PM
    I have added a new version of quickmail, it uses the additional name fields for moodle 2.6 and updates the context function that was depricated in several locations, it should work with 2.6 and was made backwards compatible with 2.5 as well.
    It primarily adds two columns in the log, to keep track if any messages weren't successfully delivered.
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