de.systopia.mailingtools

Provides Tools to support Massmailings in CiviCRM. Options are:

• Add Additional Header to all Mails sent by CiviCRM
• Introduce a retention Policy (in days) for the Bounce Mailing Mailbox. Can be specified for ignored and processed Folders.
• Add additional Patterns for Bounce handling. Currently only adds static, pre-configured files (SMTP Error Codes, some German away patterns)
• Periodically verify Emails for a valid MX record via API command (and subsequently Cron job if needed/wanted)

The extension is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Requirements

• PHP v5.5+ (better 5.6+)
  • PHP 7.0 for Email MX-Verification
  • composer voku/email-check
• CiviCRM 4.7

Installation (Web UI)

This extension has not yet been published for installation via the web UI.

Installation (CLI, Zip)

Sysadmins and developers may download the .zip file for this extension and install it with the command-line tool cv.

cd <extension-dir>
cv dl de.systopia.mailingtools@https://github.com/FIXME/de.systopia.mailingtools/archive/master.zip

Installation (CLI, Git)

Sysadmins and developers may clone the Git repo for this extension and install it with the command-line tool cv.

git clone https://github.com/FIXME/de.systopia.mailingtools.git
cv en mailingtools
cd resources/lib 
composer install

Usage

After installation a settings page exists in civicrm/admin/setting/mailingtools. civicrm/menu/rebuild should be manually triggered after install, then it is also available in the administrate console (civicrm/admin).

A Cron Job is added (Check Bounce Mailstore) with 'always' frequency, but disabled. If a retention value on the settings page is set, this will trigger the API command and delete all Mails in CiviMail/(ignored|processed) older than the configured value in days. The API Command is Mailingtools.mailretention - no parameters.

Known Issues

• This is an alpha Version, testing is needed!
• Careful with the pattern, especially in large email environment. Also Emails will be DELETED if a retention is added.
• Currently the login for the Bounce Mailbox is taken from settings, but might fail sometimes. I am considering to add an additional setting dialogue to manually specify login parameters.
• Important: For the API Command Mailingtools.emailsync PHP7.0 is needed, and I would advise to patch voku/emailChecker (isdnserror) to only check for valid MX record, see issue here.