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There is setting under email settings, "Maximum allowed email recipients:". Lower it. The process of sending mass email is still ongoing, has been for more than six minutes now, but that in itself is a good sign. That's how it should be. The max recipients value was 50 (default?), so we c...

Okay, thanks for the tip. Let's hope that does the trick

We clearly have a problem with our mass emails: they are not going through probably to most. They do go through to some. We use a third-party SMTP service because our host does not allow mass emails. Here's from the error log: Sähköposti-virhe » EMAIL/SMTP /forum/adm/index.php Sähköpostin lähettämis...

Unlike some other forums, we don't lock topics because they are old or inactive. Topics are locked mainly for two reasons: 1) Posts have been moved from two or more topics to a new or an existing topic rendering the old topics useless. 2) Some topics (such as those covering immigration policies) hav...

IIRC, at some point there was a MOD or EXT that did just that. We had it installed

Your last sentence kind of nailed it for me :D Sorry, I'm a little sleep-deprived due to Covid... We have from the get-go been very open and transparent. I could write a short story about all that, so never mind, but there are many locked topics that could lend to current, ongoing topics. These new ...

Hi all! As time has gone by and the world of Internet discussions has changed, we have both merged and locked a lot of our old topics. However, every once in a while someone would like to quote something from a locked topic to a new, active topic. As far as I can tell, that cannot be done without an...

Okay, so, it was a MOD back in the day, thanks. And that table query looks like a good, thanks!

Yeah, the topic is a little...weird :D Our forum was launched in 2004, so there are countless links that end exactly like the topic says (" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;). I cannot remember which update of phpBB left links looking that, but at least all the way up to 2015 y...

We tested it among our tech admins. Yup, all good.

Yup! Deactivation is better than deletion for those and other reasons. But when a user requests this - they always really want to have their account deleted - s/he wants no contact from the board. Thus it is imperative the mass emails to all users do not reach these deactivated users. I believe that...

My Google-fu seems weak today, so sorry if there's info or a topic about this already... When an admin deactivates a user account, what exactly does that mean for the user? More specifically: will the deactivated user receive any emails from the board anymore? I am thinking mass emails sent to all u...

We can send emails to individual users. We cannot send emails to groups or all the users. There are two reasons for that: 1) Our host does not allow bulk email. 2) We signed up for an SMTP service because of that. But that SMTP service does not allow @undisclosed_recipients which is the default with...

Yup, and adding a user to that field will send that email only to that user, not anybody else.

There is no "relevant field" in the ACP (see attachment below). This must be done by modifying the core files.