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Hmm moving require position makes no difference, hard coded path neither nor using include()?

I’s must be a be a path or scope issue though as I copied the function from db.php and pasted directly above the call to the function in by-email.php and that works but when the invites sent page renders I have a new call to undefined for the next function that needs to be called.

I don’t think this is worth you spending anytime over as it’s not happening on my live test server or your servers, I will keep a mental note of the issue, it’s correctable with a little more time spent tracking down the issue but is it worth it?

Good spot!

Checked quickly that emails couldn’t be sent from a users profile by an anonymous user and that appears ok nothing received although it looked as though the process completed, checked the DB and no records entered so guessing that essential functions are wrapped in a is_loogged_in.

Think it’s probably important to ensure only admin and logged in user can see or send from that users profile, wouldn’t really want a general logged in user to be able to use invite-anyone from another members profile.

Edit/ tested: user can only send an actual invite from their own account/profile. attempted to send from another users profile and nothing sent no record added so that’s fine.

It would be nice if the only users that could see the invite-anyone screens in a profile was admin and the actual owner of that profile.

Excellent! Can’t wait for the stable release.

Excellent; downloaded stable and overwrote local dev and test live, all appears fine , those issues I had locally with file paths were I think due to me probably updating only selected files? either way cleared up with the new set.

Good backend admin settings, I like being able to set a period of membership before emails can be sent .

Thanks a whole bunch for the work.

I’ll upload to production site tommorow!

Edit/ One minor thing spotted, not sure of the importance really. Logged in as admin I go to another members account/profile click the link ‘send invites’ and as well as being able to see the email screen (not an issue?!) the email message states my admin username – perhaps it would have to, in fact it would have to, unless the screen was removed only being visible if logged in user == user profile

Wondering if setting a quota? monthly? to the number that may be sent – not sure if there is any point to that but also mainly concerned with spammerish type issues arising and of trying to second guess non technical minded users managing to something very silly – not unkown

On Live test site:

I’m logged in as hnla navigate to:

/members/ethelred/invite-anyone/

Successfully send email from this screen

The sent invites listing is actually my! sent invites listing NOT ethelreds however url is as above ethelred/invite-anyone/sent-invites/send/

Don’t like the fact that one can send from another users account settings/screens?

Sorry for sucking!

Well I wasn’t going to say anything but … :-;

“It’s possible to add a “I dont want to receive more invites” on each email? (like a unsubscribe link). This will solve a lot of headaches if someone start receive multiple invites from a lot of people.”

Actually something like this might be required by the Can Spam act. Not for sure of the details. I think we need to look at one of the Facebook emails and see what they have since certainly they’ve gone through a lot more work and effort to figure out how to send emails like this in large quantities.

In some countries you need to have a unsubscribe link, please consider Internet its not only USA.

We really have people using buddypress all arround the world.

And even in countries who is not forced by law, some of us like to have a good user experience and dont have some Sun of the B#$&#$& (read other bad webmasters or bad people) reporting you because you dont have a unsubscribe link, especialy when the email is send from your domain (wp default).

Please note I’m talking just in one feature, not talking on avanced send emailing who’s requires MTA configuration to respect isp limits, and so one… just a simple unsubcribe link

I take your points Pedro and am part of the non USA portion of this interconnected world, however what would they be unsubscribing from? don’t give the impression that they can rescind their membership as we have delete accounts deactivated, and the sent email is not or shouldn’t be a recurring mailout or part of a list these would be members own contact.; but all that aside it doesn’t hurt to cover bases.

hnla,

Whether legal or not, the feature would be a better user experience. Plus, I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing that an “opt-out” link that removes your name from future emails would help to avoid getting your server blacklisted or filtered by the various spam filters as well. I’ll add it to my list to try and research some of the details for Boone so he can implement it the best way possible.