[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by bbcentral

Nope, that's not what I mean. I don't want to just delete accounts who have bounced emails, I want to delete anyone who hasn't logged in for 60 days and has never made a post.
My site requires a login to download mp3s and videos, same account as the forum. So I have a lot of people who sign up, download my files and never come back. I want to email them after 30 days, then again after 60, and then if they haven't visited or posted I want to delete their account permanently. And it would need to be automated because I don't have time to login every day and manually delete anybody who hasn't logged in for a while.

I think I'll need to write this one myself, but I'm also working on an unsubscription system for my forum. Any emails (like the inactive users one) will contain an unsubscribe link to make it easier for them.

1. EZ Bounce will do what you want, with a safety measure. Set up an "Bad email" group. EZ Bounce will move members with bad email addresses to that group. You can then manually inspect and delete those members, or run a simple SL query to delete members of that group.

2. You don't need to write your own add-on to do the unsubscribe thing. Customize the inactive email sent by this add-on to include instructions for unsubscribing (do this in the vBulletin options for the add-on). Here's mine:

Hello, $username!

<p>You are receiving this email because you previously registered at the YOUR FORUM NAME with the following information:</p>

<p>Member name: $username<br>
User number: $userid<br>
Email address: $email</p>

<p>It's been some time since your last visit to our FORUM community.</p>

<p>You might be interested in having another look. We have added several features and enhancements to the forums, and many new topics and new members are added every day.</p>

<p>If you don't remember your password, you can request it here: <a href="http://WWW.YOURFORUM.COM/login.php?do=lostpw">http://WWW.YOURFORUM.COM/login.php?do=lostpw</a></p>.

<p>We hope to see you back soon.</p>

<p>If you do not wish to receive further emails of this nature, please log into your UserCP at <a href="http://WWW.YOURFORUM.COM/profile.php?do=editoptions">http://WWW.YOURFORUM.COM/profile.php?do=editoptions</a> and uncheck the box next to Receive Email from Administrators.</p>