The 1969 date implies it was not run, or failed the run.

1. What does the vBouncer diagnostic page show?
2. What does the scheduled task log show?

The diagnostic page has everything Passed. (the vBouncer Spool File Diagnostics are all failed which im not using because im using IMAP)

The scheduled task log shows....

Bouncer Collect 14:30, 14th Jul 2005 Status:
Processed 0 emails No bounced emails found.

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vBounce Clean 11:54, 14th Jul 2005 Status:

O.k. so it looks like it found no bounced emails.

Are you sure there were bounced emails in there? It will ignore any other type of emails, like spam or regular email.

I found the issue. When I installed the hack began to use the exim spool file method but decided to use the IMAP service because its easier to get going. based on your tip I realized that no emails were being delivered to the account and that was odd because we were getting tons of bounces up until the minute I added the hack. I then remembered that I changed the setting in my exim.conf file as indicated below and when I just changed it back to its normal state the bounce emails resumed delivery to the email account set up to collect bounces.


I changed it back to '0660' and it works.

Thanks!

Is there any advantage in using the spool method over IMAP or POP?

If you change the exim config to 0666 you must CHMOD the file to match, if one mismatches the other then it will fail.

The spool method would be faster I would think, but I can't think of any other real major advantage.

Not really, use whichever you like.

Using the file is faster, but speed doesn't really matter, since you only run it once or twice a day. Because IMAP is slighter slower, it may offer a slight advantage by buffering the queries to match email addresses to members. But the differences are slight. IMAP is particularly useful to those who run multiple servers, where the mail server is remote, and the file spool would be inaccessable.

When I initially changed the exim config 0666 I did not CHMOD anything. Should anything be changed now that I have changed it back to 0660?

No, you should be fine now.

Before you changed anything, the file was 660 and the config was 660 - because you only changed the config to 666, there was a mismatch and it stopped. Had you then changed the file to 666 it would have been okay as they would have matched again (both 666). You have fixed the mismatch by putting the config back, so they are now both 660 again. :)

P-E-R-F-E-C-T!!!

Exactly what I'm looking for!!

(http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=920939)

Is there also a vB 3.5 version? My boards are still running 3.0.6 and 3.0.4 but when we want to upgrade?

Yes, there is. Clcik on my profile and it should be listed there.