Ah. I understand now. I looked at that other add-on but it seemed like too much overhead and never installed it.

Most of the returned email is email to newly registered members with their activation codes in them.

not mine

In that case they did not use a good email adres. You just have to check if their email box was full or if it is really a bounce because the adress is not valid.
If then Ezbounce is also perfekt, move them with ezbounce to a special usergroup, you can prune that usergroup from time to time.

ok, that's great...but what happens when an user changes its mail address to a new one?

is it promoted to the "registered member" automatically?

thanks!

When a user changes his email adress to a new one, the normal procedure is followed which also works when ezbounce is not installed, depending on your ACP settings.
If you have email verification on, the user will be placed in the "awaiting confirmation" email group until he has re-activated his/her account with the link in the activation email.
Because he will get a new activation email to his new email adres. If all goes well, he will be promoted back to the registered member group.

If he filled in a wrong new email address, you will get a bounce again.

In that case there could be a problem, because as far as I know, there is no way fo seeing if it's a new user, or a user changing email adres.

So that's a little problem I think.

thanks, that's very interesting!

if member enters an email address which bounces, member will be suceptible to admin's action when that email confirmation email is sent to the new email address and it bounces. When member confirms the email address, they are moved back to whatever usergroup they were previously a member of at the time admin invokes the ezbounce.php script.

If your boards have "email confirmation" turned off, you should really consider turning it on.

Right... so like I said, if it bounces when chaing email adress, there is probably no way to see if the user is changing the email or if it's a new user, because both emails have the activation link in them.
Since when changing, registered users are also set to the "awaiting" usergroup by the forumsoftware, you could have the risk of deleting existing users when they change and enter a wrong email address, in case you suppose it's a new user who used an incorrect email address.
Correct?

So far, I have yet to confirm that someome who gets bounced is able to get back in. I have had several try and re-activate but they are placed back in the error group (where they came from) when they activate and NOT the group they were in before they bounced. This means I have to manually reset them to the correct group when they contact me.

However, a manual reset does not clear the ezbounce tags. If they later have an email problem, I cannot bounce them, I just get the blank screen from ezbounce that means "Already processed". Is there a way for me to tell ezbounce to clear itself?