Thanks a lot, I desperately needed one!

Note: this also takes care of MAIL BOX IS FULL , when the user sees the message they check there email and see its full :D

Welll that's a problem them, because it IS an existing email address.
If you remove those from the database, they have to go through the validation again. They won't like that.

No sorry, I'm no coder, I don't know how to do that.:)

Thanx! Just what I was lookink for!

if there mail box was full chances are they dont use it anyway , and i dont require validation so they can empty there inbox and put there email addy back in

i got half a million members, say 100,00 are fake emails, does that mean i got to edit 100,00 users?

I like this template edit. I modified the wording and look of the notification to better suit the forum where I was making the template edit and it works very well.

Thank you.

You have 500,000 members and 100,000 of them have invalid emails ? How do you know that? and if thats true , you need to delete the fake email from there account and install this modification and when they log in they will see the big notice until they edit there email then it will go away by its self

nice little bit of code. I'll use it.

however I'll let the "staff" stay home on thanksgiving to eat turkey and in about 30 minutes I'll write some php code to lookup each bounced account from the user table and set the email address to null.

have a great one!

if anyone is interested I'll be happy to post the php code I wrote to scour the linux /var/log/maillog file and find all bounces and then lookup that user record in the user table and set the email to NULL.

let me know

It took me about an hour to write the code and test it. I have about 20,000 members over the last 7 years and I just reset about 3,500 email addresses.

ps: dieselminded. I've got a Ram 3500 Dually - Cummins of course!