[OzzModz] Periodic Email Verification

[ozzy47]

Another mod brought to you by,
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2015/01/1.png

This mod will allow admins to require users to confirm their email address periodically.

It is a simple installation, just upload the contents of the UPLOAD folder, then import the product XML, ozzmodz_email_verify

You can edit the options under the settings, [OzzModz] Periodic Email Verification Settings

This was requested by, joeychgo (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=50150), here, Perodic Email Verification (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=315449).

Complete Feature List


Option to disable the mod completely.
Option to set how many days before a user gets the message to verify their email.
Option to select which usergroups will get the message.


Frequently Asked Questions.

Q. Why do I need such a thing, you ask?

A. Some admins might like to ensure members stay on top of their email address.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps me know how many people are using my work, giving me extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

I appreciate the support!
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* History (Changelog) *
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v1.0.0 (December 22, 2014)
- Initial public release.

[ozzy47]

Reserved.

[bridge2heyday]

Nice mod but I have a better idea inspired from Facebook .. they periodically check if the email address still exist or not .. if it doesn't exist they prompt user to update email https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/02/4.jpg
there are some classes that can be used for that
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/6650-PHP-Check-if-an-e-mail-is-valid-using-SMTP.html
https://github.com/hbattat/verifyEmail
https://github.com/DukeOfMarshall/PHP---JSON-Email-Verification/tree/master

[ozzy47]

Nice mod but I have a better idea inspired from Facebook .. they periodically check if the email address still exist or not .. if it doesn't exist they prompt user to update email https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/02/4.jpg
there are some classes that can be used for that
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/6650-PHP-Check-if-an-e-mail-is-valid-using-SMTP.html
https://github.com/hbattat/verifyEmail
https://github.com/DukeOfMarshall/PHP---JSON-Email-Verification/tree/master

Yeah but this don't need to be fancy, it just needs to make sure the member has the correct email, and so far seems to be working as intended. :)

[Sforums]

Good idea but I kinda agree with bridge2heyday.

If that is not possible I would like to see option to filter certain email providers such as countermail.com, hushmail.com, cyber-rights.net, anonymousspeech.com. Why? Because most of these free email providers shut down inboxes after few weeks unless upgrade to paid version is done.

[ozzy47]

Filter them for what? This mod has nothing to do about what email a user uses in your forum, it is just a reminder for users to make sure their email is up to date.

You can block emails used on your site in vB by default anyway. :)

[Gadget_Guy]

Just installed and have been contacted by members that there might be an issue.

In my testing, my admin account was prompted to verify my e-mail.

I clicked the "yes this is my e-mail" link and everything working fine.

Another user saw that his e-mail was incorrect and updated his e-mail.

He got the verification thing sent to his in-box, he clicked the link.... I checked his user account and it shows the new e-mail as verified and all of that.

However when he returns to the site and tires to post or do anything he gets the notification box presented to him and it has the old e-mail address in it.

I turned off the mod and he is still getting the notification and it has locked him out of the system.

I tried disabling the product as well and it is still happening.

D.

[ozzy47]

Tell the member to clear his browsers cache and cookies.

[Gadget_Guy]

Thanks Ozzy,

I will keep testing with this person and see if that helps.

I hope I won't have to instruct everyone to reset cookies and stuff like that.

D.

[ozzy47]

Was the user using IE?
Do you have these two lines in your .htaccess file?
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"

If so remove those. I found that they cause issues in IE. By removing them has absolutely no adverse affects on site performance.

[Gadget_Guy]

He was on IE

I do not have those in my .htaccess

However...

When I was diagnosing something else (IE11 issues for another member)

I was missing this in my headerinclude template:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />

Which made the issue go away.

I also had "Add No-Cache Headers" set to "No" which I read could also be an issue with IE11 and some other issues with cookies so I turned that to "Yes"

The person with IE issues says their problem went away.

I am waiting for the e-mail person to come back on-line so I can test again with him and try and turn your mod back on.

Could those two settings account for what he experienced?

(I would love to be able to turn no-cache back to "No" for performance reasons, unless there is a viable reason to actually leave it to "yes")

D.

[ozzy47]

You can try to turn no-cache back to "No" and see what happens.

If you want to test this out your self, you can set your users date back using this query:
UPDATE user SET ozzmodz_email_verify_date = 1385857944 WHERE userid = X That will set it to over a year ago.

X is replaced by your userid, and if you are using table prefixes, remember to add it to the query.

[Gadget_Guy]

I will try that.

I am thinking it MAY be IE11 issues which that inclusion in the header fixed.

That was causing a lot of issues.

D.

[ozzy47]

Did I ever tell you IE sucks. :p

[Gadget_Guy]

Preaching to the choir!

D.

[joeychgo]

Did I ever tell you IE sucks. :p

Yeah, it does... But too many users use it...

[ozzy47]

Yeah I know. It's a PITA to work with, you code or design something, it works in every browser, except IE. :(