- Works after doing what DikV( first review) wrote;

- Average review because these issues haven't been addressed

I have been looking for some time for an easy to use component that sends email to CB groups of users.
This component seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, but there are several problems.

1: It does not work when joomla! is not in the webserver documentroot.
Fix: In cbmailing.php, replace all (3) occurrences of '/index.php' with 'index.php' (or './index.php')

2: Sending attachments does not work.
Fix: CbMailing expects an 'uploads' directory in the root of the joomla! installation, but does not create it if it does not exist.
After creating this directory, sending attachments works.

3: In Internet Explorer (6 and 7), sending an email produces an error message "Stack Overflow in line 0", and the mailmessages are sent twice.

Fix: In cbmailing.html.php, in the javascript part, find the lines:

} else {
submitform( 'send' );
}

and replace these with:

}
return true;

After applying these fixes, CbMailing works great, and does exactly what I was looking for.

Got it working after a lot of arm-wrestling, but I'm very grateful for this plug-in.

1) It appears to be abandoned...there's no documentation.

2) There is a version 1.1 and 2.0. 2.0 did not install for me (I got errors upon install in Joomla 1.0.13). I installed 1.1, but it is fatally buggy and will mail all users in all groups.

3) As a workaround, I installed 1.1, then went into my site via FTP, into the administration/components directory, and manually replaced the 1.1 files with 2.0 files. This worked perfectly!

4) The best thing is that CbMailing sees the CB lists I've set up (e.g. blue team, red team) and lets me mail them directly. It works perfectly.

5) Downside: the CbMailing component doesn't work from the site frontend. You must access it from the backend. If you try to link to it from the front end, it won't work.

I wish this was finished properly, but until it is, it's the only extension out there that lets you selectively mail groups of CB users en masse, and for that, I'm very grateful it's working at all!

This component worked right from the start for me. This was an ingenious solution and really a great tool. I've not had any problems and while it is very simple, that's not a bad thing.

I have been waiting a long time for component like this. It is easy to install and it works.

I had some trouble sending mail with attachment, but after reading the php code, I found that, there has to be an uploads folder in the root og the site.

I created the folder and then it works beatifully ;-)

This component does not "do what it says on the tin!" It mass mails sure, even if you specify one group it sends to all in the list. Also, attachments just go AWOL. This item was on the face of it just what I was looking for, i.e. user defined groups, attachments and a simple mailer system but it doesn't deliver.
Oh and another thing, where is the support. This item should be removed from the Joomla list until it is a worker.

I've selected very poor in the rating because there isn't a lower value.

I was having the same problem that other users were reporting. However, with the new releae, this works beautifully! Thanks for this great tool.

Why no one endeavored to make this component a long time ago is beyond me. Perhaps there's is some other plugin that fills this void, but I applaud Erik for trying to fill a gap.

The extension installs as a stand alone component, not a plugin for community builder. In order to allow front-end mailing, just add the component as a menu item to one of your front end menus (most components work this way). The interface is basic, no frills, but simple enough to use.

HTML sending works. I could not get attachments to send.

There was a bug where selecting one group would ultimately mail all of your user base. A solution has been found, and two updated files can be found here (click on the Files tab):

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/cbmailing/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=5920

Hope to see attachment sending capability fixed in subsequent versions! Thanks Erik for your hard work and easy to understand code.

This would be a nice component if it also worked from the front end, so that any member can easily send the other members an email.

Unless I am doing something wrong, this sent it to all my CB users. I created a test CB list with one name in it, ie me... then chose it as the mailing destination. It delivered the message to my whole community...