Moodle plugins directory: Quickmail | Moodle.org
Quickmail
Blocks ::: block_quickmail
Maintained by 
Robert Russo, 
David Lowe
A block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. Developed by LSU.
Latest release:
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749 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.
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Contributors
Robert Russo (Lead maintainer)
David Lowe
Philip Cali: Former Lead Developer
Buddy Ethridge
jason peak: Former maintainer
David Elliott: Former maintainer
Chad Mazilly: Former Maintainer
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Thanks,
David
http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Themes_2.0_overflow_problems
The recommendation is to replace table based layouts with divs. It is totally unusable in a fixed width theme.
I'm really happy that this block was developed for 2.0, thank you.
I installed it on our Moodle 2.0.7 (Build: 20120109) (Apache 2.2.19, PHP 5.3.6, MySQL 5.1.60-rel13.1). I don`t have any problem during installation, I add the block without problems, but when a send an e-mail get the next error “Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@cipfplacostera.edu.gva.es 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.”
The e-mail comes well. What’s the problem?
Best regards
Boro
When I tried to send a massive email, or a simple email, at the time I have to choose the Potential Recipents, can not add any.
Nothing happens if I use Add or Add all.
I tried to find any problems but there is no message of error, nothing happens, at all, but I can not add any reciper.
Best regards.
r.
1. In the "Potential Sections" selector box, in multiple-section courses with long course names, the narrow width of the box cuts off the section information at the end of the name. Adding a horizontal scroll bar or making the text wrap might help this.
As a fix, our programmer has truncated the beginning of the section name that feeds into the select id="groups" option. We now see only the course and section information: for example instead of 1123-UMAMH-SCH-MGT-310-SEC02-52054, we only show SCH-MGT-310-SEC02-52054.
Because long group names will also break the layout, we have limited group names to 30 characters (in the create group screen).
2. In the "Potential Recipients" selector box, because each course member's name is followed by the names of the groups and sections they belong to, each selector overflows the width of the box. Not only is it cut off, but it pushes the overflow to the right, and since the Role filter drop-down and Filter by Section selector box are right-aligned in that block, they get pushed out of view and can't be used at all.
The layout breaks in Firefox (Mac & WIndows) and in I.E 9. In Chrome & Safari, Mac & Windows, the names are still truncated, but the layout is not displaced.
Our programmer resolved this for us by feeding only recipients names into the Recipient lists, and not the groups and sections they belong to. We don't feel it is all that useful to see the group/section membership info in this location anyway, and the entire screen is now a lot cleaner.
3. Related to problem #2, if recipients with long names are added to the "Selected Recipients" list, that box stretches to the right. The Role Filter drop-down menu is pushed completely off the screen and the Potential Recipients box is cropped so that you can't even get at the vertical scroll bar.
Our fix for problem # 2 also fixed this (as long a no one has a name more than about thirty characters.
Has anyone else had this problem, and does anyone have a better solution?
However, the email does go out to the intended recipients shortly after submitting. Any ideas to why this is happening? I'd like to put this into production at our school but I worry that this will create some confusion by our faculty. Thanks!
When we tried to access the course that have this plugin, we have this error:
Table "block_quickmail_config" does not exist
Stack trace:
line 505 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_exception thrown
line 1077 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->where_clause()
line 1169 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_records()
line 139 of /blocks/quickmail/lib.php: call to moodle_database->get_records_menu()
line 30 of /blocks/quickmail/block_quickmail.php: call to quickmail::load_config()
line 690 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_quickmail->get_content()
line 232 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_list->formatted_contents()
line 926 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->get_content_for_output()
line 978 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_contents()
line 349 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->ensure_content_created()
line 7 of /theme/vcc/layout/general.php: call to block_manager->region_has_content()
line 685 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
line 637 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
line 211 of /course/view.php: call to core_renderer->header()
The course is only available if we hid the block and not use it.
Any ideas why this is happening?
Thank you
SMTP server error: 5.7.4 Unrecognized authentication type
Any help or direction would be great.
We really like this block and our instructors want to use it when we upgrade to Moodle 2.2, but I'm having one major issue that would be a show stopper for us... suspended accounts still show up on the recipients list. I've confirmed through testing that they receive the emails as well.
Is this something you are aware of or would be willing to fix?