so if i get 500 emails bounce back i have to click the link in each of them manually for them to receive the notice ??

Yes, that's true. On the other hand, this is only likely to happen if you have a mass mailout such as a newsletter. In that case, with a moderate to large size forum, my experience is that you will get a number of bouncebacks to click initially but you only have to do that once - in subsequent mailouts, you'll get perhaps 2 or 3 or 6 because the previous invalid email addresses will already have been "managed", as this add-on puts it.

and what happens when the member updates their email? how will they go back into normal usergroup ?

will the system automatically move them back to where they were?

What if a mass mailout gets me 4.000 bounced emails? Even if i spend a month clicking those links i will still have a large number of bounced emails in subsequent mailings. Although far less than otherwise, it is still too much to handle. It would be great to have a solution for this. I have been thinking about this. I am just repeating the same action over and over. There must be a way to write a script for this??

then stop looking..you didn;t amke this hack..i uninstalled it anyway..dude took to long to help and i been asking for some time now.

I'm sure it can be done but I'm not sure it should be. There are many reasons for bounced emails besides the obvious - an invalid or expired email address. Others include "mailbox temporarily unavailable" and "mailbox temporarily over quota". I prefer to personally examine the bounced emails so that I don't deactivate any except "mailbox doesn't exist".

When I ezbounce a user they are still getting thread subscription emails.

Should I uninstall and reinstall?

Yes, true. But with large numbers this does not seem viable to me. When I send out mailings, I just mass delete the bounced email, because I can?t handle the workload.

That's what I used to do, too, before I installed this mod.

What would you prefer:

1. Having a bit more work to do now to stop email going out to those invalid email addresses and bouncing back permanently? or

2. Having all those invalid email addresses continue to bounce back every time you send out a newsletter, and having to delete them all from your inbox?

I'd prefer #1.

I handle bounced email daily with Anti-Virus his awesome mod. And after a mass mailout, I handle some of them. But 4.000 emails is waaay too much to process.