Moodle plugins directory: Quickmail

Hey there, in regards to sending to the additional email, this will always work as the plugin is only looking for valid emails to send to. As for the issue about the plugin not sending to a selected recipient, is that recipient's user id showing up in the failed user ids when viewing the log?

Chad thank you for the fast reply, it does not go to any students if they are selected from the potential recipient list in one course but goes to any email typed into the additional bar. In another course it goes to all students that are selected from the potential recipient list. Even if the same user id is in both courses. I will work on checking the logs for failed user ids.

One more follow-up, it appears to all work perfect if I change the instructors email address. That was the only difference between the two courses. Once I changed the domain of the instructors email in their moodle profile the issue resolved. Does quickmail verify the sender email before sending the email to the recipients? I am trying to determine why the sender domain was causing the issue in quickmail. I know the sender domain can determine whether or not it shows the email or is no-reply.

Hello!
My question is when did you send the emails, do the recipients receive that email on the platform or do they only receive mail registered on the platform? Does the recipient have a history of received mail? Or just have mail history sent?
Thank you, Andrea

Hi,

Any update to Moodle 3.5?

Ricardo

Hi! Nice plugin, our teachers use it a lot! Some questions if I may?

I guess it will work on 3.5?

One user get time session lockout when sending to 120+ students. Is there an upper limit when using Quickmail and is that around 120-200?
We use Ubuntu with Apache and Moodle 3.2
Best Regards, Niklas

Hey Ricardo and Niklas, I've not tested the currently released version of Quickmail on 3.5 yet so I cannot speak on that. If you have, please share any feedback so that we can see about patching it.

In regards to the timeout Niklas, this is unfortunately expected due the way the currently released version of Quickmail handles email sends. In short, all emails are processed and sent directly after page submission. For emails with a large number of recipients, this process could take longer than your web server allows for timeouts. In this case, the process should just fail at some point but all emails processed up until that point were sent. You then need to go back to that message in detail and resend to any failures which should be listed.

However, I'm able to tell you that we've spent a good bit of time rewriting this plugin to handle sends as an "ad-hoc" task rather than synchronously on submit. We've not yet released this new version as "official", but it lives on the "develop" branch on the plugin's GitHub repo. I encourage you to test it out to see if it will work for you. Lots of new features packed in as well. After another week of updates this week I'll go ahead and release it as official.

Regards, Chad

Version 1.7.6 of this plugin was successfully tested on 3.5 and is now tagged as compatible.

Would you please consider to add a feature to allow users to archive quickmail messages outside the backup course shells? Many thanks!! Our instructors would like to keep the history of their conversations with their students after the semester is over...

Hi! Is messagingallowemailoverride supported in the 3.4 version?

Peter, quickmail handles external email addresses in a different manner.

Hi Robert, please explain "different". I'm thinking about letting the users choose their own address for notifications, but since we are also using QuickMail a lot that would be a mistake if QM keeps sending to their "old" email address.

Hi, This looks like a great block. Two questions from this; are the incoming and outgoing emails record in our database against the students? If so, how would we access and review the email history? Thanks, GTI

One other question, if an email is sent by a teacher in Moodle quickmail would students responses come back to the teacher in Moodle quickmail?

Anne - We love using Quickmail, especially since they have added the ability to use email variables! It's possible to see email history for the course within the block. If you wish to see email history for specific student, I'd suggest creating a configurable report (plugin) report for that. At BlueSky School, I've setup an integration to bring Quickmail communications and other communication data to our PowerSchool SIS for communication reporting for students in that context. If you're interested in any of that, please message me.

Also, the student can reply back to the teacher that sent the message like emails sent from a typical email client. -Ben, BlueSky Online School