Quickmail

Hi. How can I add a recipient's firstname to an email?

The Quickmail plugin contains a critical bug that prevents messages from being delivered when professors select "All in Course" as the recipient option. The root cause is commented-out code in the message.php persistent class that was intended to dynamically populate recipients at send time but was never activated. This bug has silently affected our institution since at least April 2025, with approximately 60 messages failing to reach over 200 intended recipients.
The Bug
The code responsible for populating recipients when "All in Course" is selected has been commented out:
// Lines 222-227 - COMMENTED OUT (BUG)
// if ($this->check_course_msg()) {
// $this->populate_recip_course_msg();
// }
Technical Explanation
The Quickmail plugin uses two different approaches for recipient selection:
Role-based selection (e.g., "Students", "Teachers"): Recipients are stored directly in mdl_block_quickmail_msg_recips at compose time.
"All in Course" selection: The course ID is stored in mdl_block_quickmail_msg_course, with the intent to dynamically populate recipients at send time to account for enrollment changes.
The design intent for "All in Course" was:
At compose time: Store course ID in mdl_block_quickmail_msg_course
At send time: Call populate_recip_course_msg() to enumerate current enrollees
Proceed with sending to the populated recipient list
However, the code that triggers step 2 was commented out, so:
The course ID is stored correctly
Recipients are never populated
The message sends to zero recipients
No error is thrown because technically the send "succeeded"

Hi,
we are using Quickmail with Moodle 4.5.2 and figured out that Quickmail does not behave as expected when writing an email and want to exclude e.g. special groups – the email will always be send to all members in the course. Did we miss anything or is this a bug?
Kathleen

Hi, is there a way to add parameters?

Hi Terry, the same thing happened to me, were you able to fix it?
Thank you very much.
Best regards.
Veronica.

We are using the latest version of Quickmail with Moodle 4.1. In the settings, "Allow students to use Quickmail" is set to "No", however, the block in each course allows students to go in and send emails. When I check the permissions on the block, there is a "View block permission that allows students, auditors, etc. to view the block. It appears to override the Quickmail setting. I can change the permissions for the block in the individual course, but that is not feasible to do in all courses. Is this a bug? Is there a workaround?

Sans doute en effet. Car j'ai moi-même du utiliser la traduction interne de Moodle pour créer ma traduction personnelle.
Mais vous pouvez vous-même aller dans AMOS et terminer la traduction.

Somehow some language strings do not appear in Moodle's translation tool (AMOS), for example the string with the identifier "from". So even though in AMOS it says this plugin is 100% translated to a language. If you actually use it with that language some strings are still not translated.

We are thinking about upgrading to Moodle 4.5 at the beginning of the summer. Is Quickmail now compatible with Moodle 4.5?

Hello! This plugin is really good! One question: are there plans to implement a filter that shows the student's final grade in the course? It is the value in the "finalgrade" field in the mdl_grade_grades table.

Update to my message Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 11:06 AM
I changed the group setting from the default for the "block_quickmail_ferpa" setting to "Respect Course Mode" rather than the default "Always Separate Groups". This appears to have fixed the problem.

I have quickmail installed. I upgraded the moodle installation to version 4.5. I tried to update the quickmail version to 4.5.1 I have installed the plugin via, the install button here, the zip file to the direct server, and the zip file uploaded within the moodle installation. (and yes I deleted each version and install quickmail before trying the next way). But I am constantly getting this error. Exception - Class "question_bank" not found
More information about this error
And also within the plugin overview it says:
v4.2.2 of quickmail
2024101701
any help ???

Hello, I am seeing the same issue as Belardo sales. When I check the log, I see a lot of failed Quickmail reports, similar to this one:
Send all scheduled Quickmail messages
\block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task
Scheduled 10/30/24, 00:45:01 0.02 secs moodle 361031
9 reads
0 writes
Fail
Veiwing the failed log shows:
Execute scheduled task: Send all scheduled Quickmail messages (block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task)
... started 00:45:01. Current memory use 21.0 MB.
Debugging increased temporarily due to faildelay of 61440
... used 9 dbqueries
... used 0.019463062286377 seconds
Scheduled task failed: Send all scheduled Quickmail messages (block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task),groups_get_user_groups(): Argument #2 ($userid) must be of type int, null given, called in /mnt/data/moodle/blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/group_repo.php on line 92
Backtrace:
* line 92 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/group_repo.php: call to groups_get_user_groups()
* line 66 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/user_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\group_repo::get_course_user_groups()
* line 335 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/user_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\user_repo::get_course_user_selectable_users()
* line 193 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/persistents/message.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\user_repo::get_unique_course_user_ids_from_selected_entities()
* line 222 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/queued_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\persistents\message->populate_recip_course_msg()
* line 241 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/queued_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\queued_repo::sync_course_recip_msgs()
* line 49 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/tasks/send_all_ready_messages_task.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\queued_repo::get_all_messages_to_send()
* line 405 of /lib/classes/cron.php: call to block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task->execute()
* line 208 of /lib/classes/cron.php: call to core\cron::run_inner_scheduled_task()
* line 125 of /lib/classes/cron.php: call to core\cron::run_scheduled_tasks()
* line 186 of /admin/cli/cron.php: call to core\cron::run_main_process()
I am running QM version v4.2.2
2024101701
on Moodle 4.38, build 20241011. I did not have this issue before updating QM and Moodle on 10/15/24. I just updated QM again, but that did not fix the issue.

Dear, good morning. We're facing an issue after updating the Quickmail plugin. Previously, teachers were able to see all emails sent to students by other teachers. In the new version, each teacher can only see the history of emails they personally sent, without being able to view the email history sent by other teachers. Has this feature been removed from newer versions? Is this related to compliance with FERPA regulations?

Is there an ETA for Moodle 4.3?