v.1.7.6 (Free) riddled with bugs, author does note reply. Any help here?

  • So, I installed v.1.7.6 (free) to have a look.
    Instantly, I faced the most basic bugs.
    I will save those for later, because I worked around them.
    Tried to contact the author. Days have gone by, no response.
    A lesser man would have bailed entirely by now. :-/
    I would be keen on buying the commercial version if only the author would have replied to my inquiries. Terrible first impression. :-(((((

    Outstanding bugs:

    1) New subscribers do not get sent e-mail verification after registering to join list, or added manually.
    2) e-mails sent from unknown addresses to list are silently sent to black hole; there are no “You’re not subscribed / verified” messages sent, with necessary “click here to register / verify your e-mail address.” links.
    3) Depending on HTML vs. Text settings for recipient, messages are not sent at all. HTML recipients may see messages where entire message is juxtaposed into single line withOUT <br> / <p> where the original sender had clearly put a new line. Plain text for all seems to work best. No option to just ignore HTML capabilities and force plain text for all. Python linx to convert HTML to plain-text with visible links would do well here. :-/

    Bugs I fixed / worked around:

    1) IMAP SSL vs. no-ssl is NOT properly passed to backend. I instrumented the code to prove that the ssl var is always evaluated to false. This breaks SSL to port 993. Further, even though ssl is evaluated as false (due to bug), even IMAP over 143 is failed because it tries to do SSL anyway. I did not find the proper resolution for why ssl=false, which is code bug a la inability to read the ssl settings, so I ended up hard-coding the value in this file:

    ~/www/{site}/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-mailing-group/template/mg_imapemailconnection.php:

    $ssl = true;

    (While commenting out the original $ssl handling..)

    2) SMPT send is broken due to missing class dependency. There is a line in the following two files for phpmailer that needs a corresponding smtp inclusion.
    The two files:

    mg_testmail.php mg_testmail.php
    wpmg_cron_send_email.php

    Both need smtp include, next to the phpmailer include, a la:

    include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-smtp.php’);

    Getting this far, I am very dismayed about the lack of proper handling of new subscribers; no email sent to them to verify their address, and in particular the poor handling of HTML vs. plain text, and the fact that so many messages go to a black hole with no explanation, no debug/diag as to why.

    Any suggestions?

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  • A year or so ago, i tried to use this as a partial replacement for the disappearance of YahooGroups.

    I found some of your bugs, and a bunch of others; some as simple as use of deprecated php syntax, and typos in the code.

    I got a lot of ‘whining’ from the developers, and when i asked if things were ‘cleaned up’ in the paid version, they managed to clean up a few places in the code.

    They wanted me to buy the paid version, even though i could not get the free version to work doing functions they said it (the free version) should be capable of doing.

    I was not going to pay for something, and then have to debug it for them; so i basically found another solution.

    Then a month or two later, they decided to send me the paid version – for-free; but by then i had moved on to a real solution, and while i managed to download it, i never actually got around to installing or testing it.

    My suggestion to you, is to move on to another ‘solution’.
    John

    Thread Starter aetherscythe

    (@aetherscythe)

    @marcusbs are you there?

    What other solution has worked for you?

    Thread Starter aetherscythe

    (@aetherscythe)

    Version 1.8 solved some of these issues. Yahoo groups is going away 12/15.
    I really need a resolution to ALL the issues, NOW. I am looking very hard at other solutions that cost way more and I would have gladly paid that money for this plugin if it had only lived up to the basic expectations of being functional, let alone ideal. ??

    Thread Starter aetherscythe

    (@aetherscythe)

    I gave up. It’s deleted. Not going back.
    WP Mailster plugin is well worth the money and if you buy three years in advance you get a major discount.

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