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.
Bought the new CD entitled Sleaze Freak by Scum Of The Earth on Amazon.com

#> 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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[Rich]

Hello,

Before anyone asks, yes this works with 3.5. The only modification you need to make to it is removing the executionorder=10 from the xml.

[Antivirus]

I have just updated this to version 1.2, all new features are explained above.

[banuchi2]

Getting this when trying to download

Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

[Antivirus]

refresh and try again, i just uploaded another file (made small edit to install instructions)

[banuchi2]

Antivirus, once again...thanks. I'm sure you had spent your entire day working on this. Although I'll keep the mod, I do have to admit that I really liked it when the usergroup was changed as opposed to their "Accept Emails from Admin" set to NO. I see why you had to change it because when it was set to move the user to a different usergroup, it was impossible to get them out after the member fixed their email. The reason I liked it the other way was because with over 12,000+ members I wanted to prune these members based upon their bounced emails. It would have been easy to do this if they were all in one usergroup.

[Antivirus]

Hmm... i suppose in the next version I could make it an option in the AdminCP to turn on or off either method in the next version, so in other words based upon what's set in AdminCP hack option settings, admin can turn off either of the following:

change usergroup
and/or
change setting for "Receive Admin Emails"

[wacodep]

Originally Posted by banuchi2

I see why you had to change it because when it was set to move the user to a different usergroup, it was impossible to get them out after the member fixed their email..

Not true. Turn on "Verify Email address in Registration". When a user changes his email address, vBulletin sends out a confirmation message and makes the user confirm the new email address. When the user confirms his (new) address, he's moved to the registered users group.

[BobbyBig]

I wonder if it would be possible to remove Users from our vBulletin Forum which emails get bounced, because this users are dead users.

Maybe an email check which they have to verify again after a range of time ?

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

The user then may simply click on a link in the PM which takes them to the update email screen in their usercp. If they behave and update their email address as requested, then when they do so, the user's "Receive Email From Administrators" setting in their profile is automatically changed back to "Yes".

I assume the 'receive admin emails' is set back to yes providing the user clicks on the link in the PM? What happens if they don't and they just go straight to their profile settings and update their email address? Will the 'receive admin emails' still be set back to yes?

Originally Posted by banuchi2

I do have to admit that I really liked it when the usergroup was changed as opposed to their "Accept Emails from Admin" set to NO.

I too prefer the 'move user to a different usergroup option' - will install the mod when that option is available.

[banuchi2]

Originally Posted by wacodep

Not true. Turn on "Verify Email address in Registration". When a user changes his email address, vBulletin sends out a confirmation message and makes the user confirm the new email address. When the user confirms his (new) address, he's moved to the registered users group.

That's GREAT news Wacodep! I didn't even think about that.

Originally Posted by antivirus

Hmm... i suppose in the next version I could make it an option in the AdminCP

Excellent idea! You have really tapped into a great mod here...kudos!