yup problems mentioned above have been fixed

Thank you Sir!

Maybe I have screwed up something or not followed the instructions properly (or this has been dealt with), but the e-mail send out does not include the $bbtitle, in the From text. Maybe, in the manageActivation.php, one should change :

with:

I am not sure, I'll create a new user now and wait to see what happens.

Rgds

thanks, if you let me know i'll update the instructions :)

Well, unless if you have an idea on how to "force" an e-mail out of the script, we'll have to wait for three days! LoL

Thanks for coming back and rgds

What about 0-Posters? Is there a hack, that does the same Emailing and so on and also delets user after 10 days?

I checked, and yes, you should include the code change suggested in Post 43.

It now shows the proper bbtitle.

Rgds

Downloaded today and instructions still read :-

"This hack will email members who have not yet activated their accounts and remind them to do so on day 3, 5, and 8. Users who have not activated after 10 days are deleted.

Installation is cake.
1. upload manageActivation.php to your forum director.
2. Create new templates based on the text files enclosed in the zip.
a. Template name = filename.
b. Template contents = file contents.
3. Set up your cron job to run the script once a day. Use vBulletin's default system "Scheduled Tasks"

Time to update !?

Useful hack ... clicked install :)

I am tempted to use this...

I have 1700 UnActivated users on one and like 4000 on another...

Is there any reason, why the e-mail gets send twice? Actually with a difference of one day between the two copies???

I am puzzled, I checked the code and can find any reason why. My cron entry is shown in the attachment and I have disabled to standard e-mail cron script.

Also, I do not get any log entries for the manageActivation. Is this normal or what?

Tnx

have you got the default vb activate.php cron running?

No, I have it disabled. And teh e-mails send are twins, I mean they mention the days (It has been 5 days since you registered, and you have not yet activated your account. ).

I am really getting mad with this because I can't find anything that can cause this hack to send the e-mails twice.

Rgds

can anyone confim this?

if you're using 2.2 or below please upgrade now, it's quite critical, i'm having a few reports of members changing their addresses and everything going crazy. your board will be doomed and your community will die if you do not heed this warning

on another note, just upgrade to 2.3a thanks to sv1cec :)

What are the cron settings for it?

Does this tell them on Day 8 that their account will be removed in 2 days if they do not activate the account?

yes it does sir

run it once a day

GREAT! I will most likely run it once I get some other things smoothed over!

Sabret00the,

I created a test account to verify the warnings send out. Each e-mail was send twice, once on the proper date and one the following day. Here are the timestamps:

1st Action required e-mail: 07/26/2004 11:57
1st Warning e-mail (3 days) : 07/29/2004 11:11
copy of the above : 07/30/2004 11:15
2nd Warning e-mail (5 days) : 07/31/2004 11:55
copy of the above : 08/01/2004 11:16
3rd Warning e-mail (8 days) : 08/03/2004 11:11
copy of the above : 08/04/2004 11:14

Even though I am no php expert, I can't find any part of the hack that could cause this behaviour. At the time being I am creating another test user to try again the whole thing.

Rgds

/me clicks install!

cheers ! very hard hack to find!!

this isnt included with the latest version of VB is it ?

I have a question for the author here.

When the cron script is run manually, it generates some messages, like to which member the activation e-mail reminder has been send etc. However, when run from the cron, no such details are kept, anywhere, nor do I (the admin) receive any e-mail about who was warned or deleted.

I tried to find the code (in the script) which was supposed to send that e-mail to the admin, and I can't so maybe I am not that familiar with php, or maybe I missed something?

Rgds
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John

I looked in my vb3.0.3 cron jobs and only see clean up 1 and 3... so not sure... Anyone?

The one you should deactivate is called "Activation Reminder Email", if that is what you are asking.

Rgds
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John

I dont see that under crons... Is there a place we turn that on at somewhere else?

problem i find is i know this hack is running every 12 hours but i cant understand why it does appear in the logs ? it would be useful thats all, is something set wrong maybe ?

Activation Reminder Email - deactivate or delete ? cause i dont think you can deactivate can you ?

:)

*bump*

im not sure wether this hack it working properly, for me anyways...

whats the numbers to set the cron scripts at ? every 24hrs ? im really confused so if someone could point out what to set it as would be cool.

any way to get it to show what its done in the logs ?

run once every 24 hours should be something like "03 0 * * * "
and i'll release an add-on to get it to run it to add to the logs in the morning :)

sabret00the just 1 question for your hack.
My board is suffering from yahoo and hotmail spam filters, which make all the emails send from my forums to users spam/bulk mail folders who are using Yahoo or Hotmail. .

Does your hack, sends emails to there Inbox properly ?

Let me know. if it does, I will strarightway install it.

Regards,
Sandy...

Sandy,

I have the same problem. I do not know why it happens (what Yahoo looks for and moves our e-mails to the "Bulk" folder, but what I did to help diminish the consequences, was to put a note about this issue, in the screen the user gets, after he/she registers. It's one of the phrases, called "registeremail".

At least, with that message, a Yahoo user knows where to look for the activation e-mail.

Rgds
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John

ahh! I LOVE this hack, i've been wanting something like this!

i just noticed that the postings here stopped, did this get moved, removed, not supported any longer? i'm just curious...

i am running 3.03 and noticed this is for 3.01 and have a problem when running the vBcron script...

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/adminfunctions.php:223) in /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/functions.php on line 2716

I have only run this manually so far... and that's when i noticed it. it cleaned out about 200 un-activated members... :D yay!

ok, now have the "fixes" been applied that speak of users that are just changing their email address', it will not delete them correct? and finally.. i'm not getting any logging or emails.... this seemed to be where the posts in this thread stopped... can anyone clue me in ?

thanks!

Aaron

Aaaron,

Check your code again, there should be a mistake somewhere.

I am running the cron job and it works OK.

Rgds
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John

hmm, i just noticed something... while playing with this hack... when it sends a email it doesn't go into the junkmail folder for yahoo....

anyone know what this sends differently? I would like to apply that change to my main vb activation and other emails... it's really annoying that they go into the junkmail folders for users....

also, are thes lines supposed to be commented out?

//$globaltemplates = array(
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Subject',
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Message3',
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Message5',
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Message8',
//);
//

updated this

What did you change in it, sir? ;)

And please don't forget to update it at my site. ;)

added a chdir to make sure it worked even if your forum aint in your root directory and added a line of code to log the crons :)

Why make extra work for yourself. Instead of deleteing it, edit the existing Activation Reminder Email cron job to point to the manageActivation.php file instead of activate.php. When you select the cron time you want it to run at, choose a time that your board is at its slowest activity.

hey, i got the update, but am still having problems :(

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/cron/manageActivation.php on line 21

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/adminfunctions.php:223) in /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/functions.php on line 2714

your line 21 should read

can you let me know if it say that please :)