Easy convert....

It is easy, but may present some security risks. If you find a secure way to do this, please share it with us.

I love the idea of this hack, I am just worried about ticking off people who would loose threir subsriptions. I'm not sure this is even possible, but...

Instead of unsubscribing all the subscribed threads, would their be a way to temporarily move them into a usergroup called something like: Bad email address

and have that usergroup recieve no e-mail? (besides account related e-mail, like lost password etc..) But keep the subcription info intact with no e-mail notification?

And then have an option for them to update their e-mail address, once it is updated, have the script move their susbcription status back to previous usergroup?

I hope that makes sense?

Again, maybe this is not possible, but I think this would be a great addition if it was possible :)

Thanks

I know it would be an easy convert. Especialy since I can script in Perl as well. I just dont really have the time right now to do it. Im working on several projects at once right now.

No one loses their subscription. This will change it from instant email, to no email. i.e. they can access subscribed threads from the user cp, and they can change it to instant or weekly, etc..

Tamarian,

OK, thanks for the clarification.

This is awesome and I plan to use it (with around 500 bounces tp me a day), however, i am kinda dumb...

Do I need to run the file on a regular basis? Can I set a cronjob for it? I am terrible at backing up the db, let alone running this...

Also, if i have several domains on my server, does that pose a problem? i notice there is no domain on the end of the email address user in the script?

Sorry for the q's, thanks for any help.

Christian

I just realized I can't use this because my mail server is remote - the server does send the emails out, but return bounces go to another mail server.

Yes, you can run this as a cron job, there should be no problem with that.

re: multiple domain: It should not be a problem, but if you have multiple vb forums, the script will only handle one of them, but it's possible to rename it and set it up for each forum.

If you want to, you could automate the transfer of the mail file to the MySQL server. As it's just a flat file, the script should be able to parse through it. and update the database