IS there a way of catching bouncing emails that were sent via admincp? I have about 700 sitting in my inbox right now and I'm really not looking forward to taking care of them manually. Is there a similar hack that would support these bounces as well?

I'm stuck in the install at step 4.

Can someone be more specific as to the exact steps? I'm not understanding what to do? what plug in file? How do you active it, what are the steps? Thanks

Thanks

How do I activate the plugin file through the plugin manager? I've installed hundreds of hacks in the past without much problem, but this line has me confused, can anybody give me more specific info on this?

I really would like to get this hack installed and running properly. Thanks again!

The plugin manager is part of vB's adminCP, use the plugin import menu option, and import the file located in the import directory of the zip file.

Took a little playing, and a lot of reading this thread, but it works, and works great!!!! Thanks.

Excelent hack, thanks for sharing. :up:

vBouncer Collect

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /includes/cron/vbouncer-collect.php on line 317

Warning: fopen(/var/spool/mail/forum_notify): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /includes/cron/vbouncer-collect.php on line 319

Warning: ftruncate(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /includes/cron/vbouncer-collect.php on line 321

Done

How to fix it?

Could someone help me? I'm trying to get this running on a server where IMAP's running on port 993 but it's not working for reasons that I don't get.

Thanks...

hugh
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Setting:

{domain:993}INBOX

Diagnostic:

Test Result

Valid vBouncer email account (subscriber-notify) Failed
vBouncer email account (subscriber-notify) differs from webmaster account Failed
vBouncer Spool File Diagnostics (ignore if using IMAP/POP)

Test Result

vBouncer email spool file (/var/mail/subscriber_notify) exists Failed
vBouncer email spool file (/var/mail/subscriber_notify) is writable Failed
vBouncer email spool file (/var/mail/subscriber_notify) is readable Failed
vBouncer pattern config file diagnostics

Test Result

vbouncer.inc file exists Passed
vbouncer.inc file is readable Passed
vBouncer IMAP/POP Diagnostics (ignore if not using IMAP/POP)

Test Result

Your PHP installation supports IMAP/POP Passed
Your IMAP/POP settings can connect Failed

I'm assuming this works for mass mails as well?

I've found that the sender email address isn't changed if vB to configured to use the Mailqueue System. Not sure if this is a problem with this mod or the server setup.

Any ideas?

yet another must-have addon for vbulletin..
thank you for the release.

Are you using SMTP or PHP options for mailing? Make sure you test with thread notification, not from the admincp.

PHP mail() and all testing was done with thread notification.

tamarian if you have time to check my forum would be great I really try for months and still bouncing emails please let me know .

So...let me ask, boards that *DO* require email verification, will this mod still work?

PS: sorry if this has been asked before in this thread

Yes, that wouldn't make any difference, this is mainly for instant thread notifications

I was told by my host that on Windows servers Cron isn't an option..so I guess I can't run it

vBulletin's cron is a simulated cron. So your vB is running scheduled tasks, this is just like other vB scheduled tasks.

I have a problem!

I installed it and I'm using POP3 but:

What can I do to fix this?

@ POP connetion I use:

Try using notls in the string. Search this this thread for "notls" for examples.

I found this, I'm going to try it out!

Why don't you post this in the first post.

vBouncer sender email
Test Result
Valid vBouncer email account (notify@soccerquest.nl) Passed
vBouncer email account (notify@soccerquest.nl) differs from webmaster account Passed
vBouncer Spool File Diagnostics (ignore if using IMAP/POP)
Test Result
vBouncer email spool file () exists Failed
vBouncer email spool file () is writable Failed
vBouncer email spool file () is readable Failed
vBouncer pattern config file diagnostics
Test Result
vbouncer.inc file exists Passed
vbouncer.inc file is readable Passed
vBouncer IMAP/POP Diagnostics (ignore if not using IMAP/POP)
Test Result
Your PHP installation supports IMAP/POP Passed
Your IMAP/POP settings can connect Passed

Thank You!

Is vbouncer viable anymore? I need it. =] And damn do I not want to hack it myself. =P

Not sure in what way you mean by viable, it works for what it's supposed to do. :)

Work with 3.5.4?

Yes, several 3.5.4 forums are running it.

In vB 3.6 there has been a chang in the "phrase" & "phrasetype" tables. The previous primary key "phrasetypeid" is remove. Only "fieldname" is now serving to identify the phrasetype (or group).

Attached is a modified installer that will work on 3.6 (only tested install).

Will post later if vBouncer itself works on vB3.6 Beta1

PS Maybe this can easily turned into a product, so there will not be this kind of problems with future releases.

Edit: Seems to work on 3.6 Beta 1

I have installed the vbouncer and all seems ok, but it never collects any emails, and I know the emails are going to the correct inbox.

Any help?

So I got vBouncer installed. It's connecting to my mailbox and when it finds emails in there it will delete them. I tried changing a test account on my boards to contain a bad email address. I triggered emails to that account using buddy adding, pm's, emailing, etc. Since the email did not exsist they ended up inside of the subscriber_notify@mydomain.com address.

Without opening the email, I ran the vBouncer Collect cron, the email vanished and this appeared in my cron log:

vBouncer Collect 01:07, 20th Jul 2006 Status:
Processed 1 emails No bounced emails found.

But whenever I look at the vBouncer Stats section it always appears as:

Quick Stats
Total bounced emails currently logged
Top bouncer [] - -
Last run with results 18:00, 31st Dec 1969

All blank. Any ideas?

6 days with no reply :( No one have an idea here?

Antiblank, if no bounced emails are found, the stats will be blank. That's normal. If you're asking why there are no bounced emails, you need to check the diagnostics and error messages, and provide some details.

Well as I stated I intentionally created a bad email address for a test user. Then triggered some emails to be sent to it. The email isn't found so a the message ends back up in my return-path mailbox. Vbouncer connects, attempts the collection, processes the one email it found. But says no bounced emails. Then deletes the email from the box.

Forgive me if I'm wrong but wouldn't this constitue as an email that vBouncer should be triggered off of.

As for my diagnostics:

vBouncer sender email
Test Result
Valid vBouncer email account (subscriber_notify@********.com) Passed
vBouncer email account (subscriber_notify@********.com) differs from webmaster account Passed

vBouncer Spool File Diagnostics (ignore if using IMAP/POP)
Test Result
vBouncer email spool file () exists Failed
vBouncer email spool file () is writable Failed
vBouncer email spool file () is readable Failed

vBouncer pattern config file diagnostics
Test Result
vbouncer.inc file exists Passed
vbouncer.inc file is readable Passed

vBouncer IMAP/POP Diagnostics (ignore if not using IMAP/POP)
Test Result
Your PHP installation supports IMAP/POP Passed
Your IMAP/POP settings can connect Passed

As for my Cron Logs for example:

vBouncer Collect 04:02, 27th Jul 2006 Status:
Processed 2 emails No bounced emails found.

I am using IMAP and the connection, reading and deleting of the emails is functioning. There is absoulty no reason any email should be entering this box outside of the return-path function added to the emails since I installed vBouncer.

Anything else you need to see? Thanks.

Just to inform you that this hack is producing invalid Mail headers.

$headers = preg_replace('/Return-Path.*/', 'Return-Path: ' . $vbulletin->options['vbouncer_spool_account'], $headers, 1);

That will match up to the \r and replace it, the end result is that the header has \n instead of \r\n.

If you could fix this it would be awesome, if you can't or aren't around any more i'll speak to Marco about manually updating your hack for you.

This affects Qmail installs and potentially the SMTP mail sender.

Quick Fix, i think but haven't tested is adding $

$headers = preg_replace('/Return-Path.*$/', 'Return-Path: ' . $vbulletin->options['vbouncer_spool_account'], $headers, 1);

Is this still being supported because I cannot get this to work for the life of me.

some1 try in Vb 3.6.0 final??

anyone have try on 3.6.0???

my IMAP settings fails, although I can login through y mail client okay?, however, it is showing installed within cpanel, I have rebuilt PHP and but still nothing?

Ideas anyone?

Your PHP installation supports IMAP/POP Passed
Your IMAP/POP settings can connect Failed

dont worry, i fixed it, i had left off a { when I copied the 143inbox etc...

Do we have a 3.6.0 ?

Wow thanks for this bit of info. Using an externail mailserver - this info saved me after many failed attempts :)