Administrative and Maintenance Tools - EZ Bounced Email Management for Admins

DESCRIPTION:
This mod will insert a special EZbounce link into the header of all emails sent from your forums. In the event any email bounces back to you, you simply click the EZbounce link and the Ezbounce script launches, which will modify the bouncing members settings to prevent further bouncing emails. It will also send that member a PM asking them to update their email address.

This modification is known to work with versions as high as 3.8.x


FEATURES:

• Will not modify settings for Admins, Supermods, or Moderators if their email bounces
• (if turned on) Bouncing member is moved to whatever usergroup you set in AdminCP EZbounce Settings
• Updates bouncing member's "Receive Email from Administrators" setting to NO
• Updates bouncing member's "Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages" setting to NO
• Updates bouncing member's "Receive Email from Other Members" setting to NO
• Remove email notification for all of bouncing member's subscribed THREADS
• Remove email notification for all of bouncing member's subscribed FORUMS
• Turns on Popup Notification of new Private Messages for bouncing member
• PM is sent to Member notifying them of bounced email & asking them to update email address
• (if turned on) When member updates & confirms their new email, they are returned to original usergroup.

Now, the next time you send a newsletter from your AdminCP, (so long as you only send emails to members whom have "Receive Email From Administrators" set to "Yes") you will no longer receive a bounced email from this member (because they are no longer being sent).

And also, if you created a new usergroup such as "Bounced Members" and set this usergroupid in this hack's settings, now the members that have bounced can be pruned, sent reminder emails, whateveryou want to do with them!


WHAT IF A MEMBER DECIDED TO CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE EMAIL HEADER?
Most email clients don't show the email's headers by default, however in the event a member is slick enough to view their header and they click on this mysterious link, they will simply receive a no permission message since they're unallowed to log in to the AdminCP.


ZIP FILE CONTENTS:
1 Product (2 plugins, a couple phrases & installcode which adds 1 colum to user table)
1 File


HOW TO VIEW FULL EMAIL HEADERS:
You might need to configure your email client to view full email headers in order to see the EzBounce link. There's detailed instructions on how to do this for the most popular email clients here.


CHANGELOG:
#> 1.11 - released on 7/6/2008:
Fixed bug reported in post #583

#> 1.10 - released on 12/18/2007:
Added when bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Pop Up a Notification Box When New PM Is Received" setting is turned on before the notification PM is sent, to better ensure they are notified to update their email address.
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#> 1.9 - released on 9/22/2007:
Added when bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Pop Up a Notification Box When New PM Is Received" setting is turned on before the notification PM is sent, to better ensure they are notified to update their email address.
Modified the way old usergroupid is restored so methos is more compatible with other installed mods.
Optimized some queries in ezbounce.php and plugin codes.

#> 1.8 - released on 6/1/2007:
Bug fix - fixed array_merge error for those running php 5.

#> 1.7 - released on 5/8/2007:
Bug fix - fixed bug where old usergroup was incorrectly being restored.

#> 1.6 - released on 4/26/2007:
Added protective measure for Admins, Supermods, or Mods who's email may have bounced. this makes sure their usergroup and settings are not modified

even if their email bounces.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages" is now set to NO.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Receive Email from Other Members" is now set to NO.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, email notification is turned OFF for all of bouncing user's subscribed threads.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, email notification is turned OFF for all of bouncing user's subscribed forums.

#> 1.5 - released on 2/17/2007:
Added option in Settings which allows admin to insert the EZbounce link into outgoing email's message body (for email clients which make it difficult to show

email headers or don't properly parse html links when displaying email headers.
Fixed bug where original usergroupid was being erased in the event admin processed bounced more than once for same member

#> 1.4 - released on 2/17/2007:
Fixed bug - PM is now sent regardless of whether or not bouncing member had "Enable Private Messaging" turned off in UserCP.
Fixed bug - Usergroup is now properly reset to what it was before member was managed for bouncing

#> 1.3 - released on 2/15/2007:
New setting in AdminCP which gives option to move bouncing members into any usergroup of Admin's choice
If member had previously bounced, and they update their email, they are moved back to their original usergroup

#> 1.2 - released on 2/10/2007:
Bouncing members are now handled by setting their preference to receive admin emails to "no"
Sends PM to member notifying them email bounced
If / when member updates his/her email their preference to receive admin emails is reset to "yes"

#> 1.0 - released on 2/8/2007
Original release


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[daddygrim]

ok installed...so how would i test this?

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by daddygrim

ok installed...so how would i test this?

Please read "How Does It Work" and "What Happens Behind The Scenes" above to see how you would test it.

[daddygrim]

Still Don't Get It.

[Black Tiger]

1.) logout of your forums and register as a new user called test or something.
2.) use a fake email adres like idont@wantmail.com
3.) go and proceed with registration.
4.) Go to you admincp and set user "test" to the registered usergroup.
5.) Since you registered with a non-existing email adress, the verification email will get bounced (hence you have activated verification check by email), click the link in the email and you will see that user test will be moved to another usergroup if you have set it up that ezbounce does that.

You dont have email verification? No problem, same action but now under 4, also send this user a password reminder from the admincp, the effect is the same.
Have fun testing!

[daddygrim]

sent an email and nothing bounced back

[Saint_ago]

Hi! Everytime i click on Management link, the following message appears in the top of the page:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /admincp/ezbounce.php on line 107

But the user was moved to the correct group, receives a PM, and the option "Receive Admin emails" was turned off.

What this error could be?

[Black Tiger]

@Daddygrim: In that case there are 3 possibility's.
1.) You forum emails do not really get send
2.) Some spamfilter or setup keeps the bounced messages out
3.) The email adres @wantmail.com is existing and they have a catchall which does not bounce the message, try another email adres which does not exist.

Otherwise I don't know what's going on.

[daddygrim]

i massed email and i know for a fact 1 person email address is invalid. but i never got anything back. I use my gmail account for my admin. Show me an example of yours.

[Black Tiger]

I have a domain name, my email adres for admin is the info adres of that domainnaam.
So if my domain is www.myforums.org then i have my admin email info@myforums.org.
The nice thing about that, is that the mailserver for that domain is running at my own home, but that does not make any difference with hosting.

As far as I know you should be able to get a bounced message at gmail too. I will try lateron with my own gmail account.

Is that what you mean by an example? If not, please specify.

[daddygrim]

yeah thats fine..but what about the bounced email itself? i do not have my email system set up on my site. my email options. all blank. SMTP Email and below are all set to no and blank boxes..this shouldn't make a big difference?