Moved to https://lab.civicrm.org/extensions/civicrm-recalculate-recipients
This extension causes the recipients of a mailing to be recalculated just before the mail is sent out, meaning you'll be sending based on the most up to date recipient list.
CiviCRM's default behaviour is to calculate recipients for a mailing based on the contacts that are in your include/exclude groups/mailings at the time that you hit the submit button. Any subscriptions and un-subscriptions that happen between hitting the submit button and it being sent will not be reflected in the mailing. That works for some use cases but not for others. This extension alters the default behaviour.
Recalculate recipients is currently in beta - use at your own risk.
The extension has been in production at several organisations for years without issue. We have not had any reports of it breaking anything from other organisations but even so, it has not been widely tested.
If this extension does work for you, please feedback by creating an issue in the github repostory with details of your use case. Once we have received a few positive reviews, we will move it out of beta.
This extension is not ACL friendly. The CiviMail author's ACLs are not taken into account when the recipients are recalculated, meaning this extension does not limit to the contacts in a group that the user scheduling a mailing is able to view (see issue #1 for more details).
Not not use it if you are relying on ACLs to limit the contacts to which CiviMail users can send
CiviCRM 4.7
- Read the health warning
- Download a release from https://github.com/3sd/civicrm-recalculate-recipients/releases to your extensions directory
- Browse to Administer > System Settings > Extensions
- Find Recalculate Recipients and click Install
Note: for help on installing extensions, consult the extensions chapter of the CiviCRM system administrator guide.
Recalculate recipients is a simple extension with no configuration options. Once enabled it will start working automatically; recalculating recipients just before each mailing is sent. To stop recalculating recipients, simply disable the extension.
If you have any questions regarding this extension that are not answered in this README, please check post a question on http://civicrm.stackexchange.com or contact [email protected].
This extension has been developed by Michael McAndrew from Third Sector Design who you can contact for help, support and further development.
Funding for this extension was generously provided by eLife Sciences, a unique, non-profit collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to improve the way important results are presented and shared.
Contributions to this repository are very welcome. For small changes, feel free to submit a pull request. For larger changes, we suggest you create an issue first so we can discuss the idea and approach.
This extension is licensed under AGPL-3.0.