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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[cd1986]

Receiving this error when i try to manually run the Activation Reminder Cron:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /path/to/forums/includes/class_mail.php(261) : eval()'d code on line 4

Any ideas? It is the only plugin that uses the mail_send hook on my installation.

[Antivirus]

Hmm.. I will try to reproduce that error and see what the deal with that is.

[bela-meaad]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Not sure what the problem is for you, what version of vBulletin are you running? Perhaps your bounced emails are landing in your junk mailbox? Make sure your forum's main email address (the one which sends out all outbound email) is on your email client's whitelist.

Turn off all other hacks and see if you still have same problem.

thanks

it was server issue

but i have more than 40,000 members
& most of them are bounced (25,000)

is there any other way to mark them as bounced
ineasted of doing that manualy 1 by 1
i mean auto-move to unconfirmed usergroup

Thanks

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by bela-meaad

i have more than 40,000 members & most of them are bounced (25,000) is there any other way to mark them as bounced ineasted of doing that manualy 1 by 1 i mean auto-move to unconfirmed usergroup?

Currently there's no way to "mass administer" all those bouncing emails. The EzBouncer is designed to do each one once, then that user bouncing shouldn't ever be an issue again.

Originally Posted by cd1986

Receiving this error when i try to manually run the Activation Reminder Cron:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /path/to/forums/includes/class_mail.php(261) : eval()'d code on line 4

Any ideas? It is the only plugin that uses the mail_send hook on my installation.

I tried to reproduce that by running the scheduled task manually from within AdminCP and it ran fine. What version of vb are you using?

[bplinson]

It would be very useful if after you get the confirmation message the browser redirects to the bounced users account info instead of the Admin CP page.

I always go to the person account info anyway and check to see if is is an inactive or zero post user and if so just delete them.

[cd1986]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

I tried to reproduce that by running the scheduled task manually from within AdminCP and it ran fine. What version of vb are you using?

Currently using 3.64 (with the 3.65 security update). I'm guessing it is most likely a plugin conflict, but having searched all individual plugins i'm using, this one is the only one to use the mail_send hook. I've disabled it for now to make sure other mail functions work properly.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by bplinson

It would be very useful if after you get the confirmation message the browser redirects to the bounced users account info instead of the Admin CP page.

I always go to the person account info anyway and check to see if is is an inactive or zero post user and if so just delete them.

Good idea.

[Black Tiger]

Ik would also be nice if it was repaired so it was really put back to the admincp.
The problem I'm having is that it is put in the admincp, but I have to reload the page to get the left side column of the ACP.
From within EZ Bounce this is not loaded.

[maaref]

i liked it very much.
Thanks

installed

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Ik would also be nice if it was repaired so it was really put back to the admincp. The problem I'm having is that it is put in the admincp, but I have to reload the page to get the left side column of the ACP.

That's odd, for me when i click on it (no matter what email client i use) it opens the script iin a new window. Perhaps it's just your browser settings.