No, impossible...this will take weeks or more...

Hello tamarian.
I've set this hack up using the latest version.
My host has set all emails with the particular email address to go to /var/mail/admin.
It's 1,547,032 bytes in size at the moment and -rw-rw-rw-.
I've gone through the vbounce settings and selected my preferences and I have added collector and cleaner to the scheduled tasks.
Everything passes the diagnostics.
To speed things along I have run the collector but in the vbouncer report it shows nothing has happened.
Is there any way I can check to see why nothing is happening?

Are you using Exim? Was the mail file exclusively full of bounced emails? (I mean not SPAM and stuff, just hard and soft bounces). Was the scheduled task log really empty, no text or status header?

I'm working on handling Exim reports (or those with bounce messages without bounce reports). If you have a decent sized sample, please email it to me :)

Sorry, I don't know what Exim is or how to view the contents of the mail file. Though we've sent some test emails to that account.
The scheduled task log for collect reports 'No matches found'.

What email software is installed on your server?

A couple of things might be happening:

1. The file does not contain bounced emails, just regular emails, spam and the usual viruses, etc.

2. The file contain bounced emails, but no MTA bounce reports.

If it's #1, you may need to create a new email account for the sole purpose of using for vBouncer, so the file will contain only bounced emails.

If it's #2, your MTA doesn't generate bounce reports. This should be handled by the next version I'm working on.

Working perfectly .. Thanks alot dude :)

psico and spinball: PM me your email addresses. I'll send you a copy of vbouncer-collect.php to test and see if it works on your setup. If all goes well, I'll release it along with the POP/IMAP code.

I emailed your last message to my host and he 'tweaked' and the hack now works!! Yeah!! Thanks for your help. 893 bounced emails right there!
I'm not sure I understand how altering the Bounce Limit and Bounce Limit Period affect how this hack works. For example, if a user has just a few bounced emails - say 5, I want to deactive their emails right away. I don't understand what the bounce period does.

One other thing - and was it you I had this conversation with re vbusy? The graphics don't appear in the chart because the specified location in the template is 'http://www.mydomain.com/forums/images/blahblah' and you might want to test for this in your hacks so the graphics work for people who have vBadvanced installed.

I assume he turned on bounce reports in the MTA, which I think would be the best solution. As this is very specific to each server setup, I can't offer tips on how others can do it, but if you can share what he did, that would be great.

Here's an example, say you set up:

Bounce limit = 50 emails
Bounce limit period = 7 days

Then only those who reach 50 email bounces within 7 days period will be processed.

You can set it to:

Bounce limit = 1 email
Bounce limit period = 1

This will auto process the user for any bounced email received

so what is the status with Exim? I moved servers, but it still doesn't work. I have an 853kb inbox file if you want to look at it. But i don't think that is the issue. permissions is the problem.

Derek