I see. It would be good to to override that. The EZbounced email hack overrides this, so it must be possible to add this feature. I think this would be very effective in helping with unactivated user management.

I'd guess that the majority of non-activated users for many forums, including mine, are invalid email addresses. In the "tech support" section, we have a post explaining how to avoid filters using the address book or whitelist.

I wouldn't give unactivated members access to PMs. That's just begging for PM spam, especially since the spammer doesn't even have to provide a valid email address in order to be able to access the forum members.

:confused: Overiride what? The Ez Bounce add-on doesn't send PMs.

Yes, it does. See here.

Sorry, you're correct. What I meant to say was that it doesn't override access to PM permissions. And for the reasons stated above, I wouldn't want to give non-activated members access to the PM system.

The fact that EZ Bounce sends that PM is actually a bit annoying. If the member's registration email address is invalid, and the member is close to the limit for stored PMs or has PM email notification turned on, EZ Bounce generates 2 or 3 bounced emails instead of just the original. It's a little like the problem of autoreplies, where you get emails bouncing all over accomplishing nothing useful.

Isn't it possible to automatically send the member a PM, without giving further access to the PM system? I think this is what EZ bounce does as well.

Ez bounce turns all email notification off, so sending out more emails is no issue.

Not as far as I know, no.

I definitely still get bounce-backs regarding the "PM full" or "PM almost full" emails so it is an issue.

And I know I used to get additional bounce-backs for notifications - I suppose that may have been in an earlier version.

But that said, this is the Un-Activated User Management Thread. Perhaps further discussion about EZ Bounce should continue in that thread.

I want to delete all my users in 20 days if they don't login, this mod does this, I quite didn't understand if it doest it. Sorry my english sux!

You'd need to modify the code a bit for 20 days.

The way it works now is it sends reminder emails at 3, 5, and 8 days after registration. After that, if the member hasn't validated the registration by 10 days, he or she is deleted.

Excuse me DJBaxter, I did not intent to focus the discussion on EZBounce. I only mentioned specific functions to illustrate functional possibilities for your hack, not in order to compare. Un-Activated User Management is something different and should not be compared.

Actually, this is sabert00the's add-on, not mine, so it would be up to him. :)

That said, I wouldn't want a PM solution for this add-on personally. If it were added as an extra option (email and/or PM), I suppose that would work because I'd just turn off the option for PMs.