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Originally Posted by djbaxter

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.

But there are more reasons why I would want to delete an account than just a bad email address, that's only a tiny fraction of the problem. I also need to delete people who have not logged in or posted in over a particular amount of time.
I had a good look at EZ Bounce, what it does and how it works, and it just doesn't suit my requirements at all, not even slightly.

Originally Posted by djbaxter

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:

It's a nice email, but I really want something much simpler which involves a single click to unsubscribe, like:
website.com/forum/u/?e=user@domain.com&s=hj289h238hsdkjh
That would put their account in the "PendingDeletion" usergroup, send them a confirmation email, and within 24 hours a CRON job would delete the account. They would also be able to cancel the deletion request using the same page.
It doesn't require retrieving passwords or logging in to the forum, I want it to be as simple as possible. I realise this might sound like overkill, but it would fit in with my site a lot better.
If their account has posts on the forum then it wouldn't delete it, but they'd be able to click a button to request deletion (which would simply notify me and I could do it manually for them). But that's not a big problem.

I sent out 12,000 emails to all my members the other night, and while 2000 bounced back to me, I also had a lot of people who wanted their accounts deleted. If they're not ever going to login, never going to post, and never want me to email them, then I may as well just delete them permanently and keep my database clean. The more I can automate, the less time I'll have to waste on daily maintenance.