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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[Mrdby]

To view their profile, go here:

http://dbyonline.net/forum/member.php?u=1113

Email Address : j*****@yahoo.com
Birthday : October 22, 1983
Referrer: darkbrotha
IP Address:

Who or where did you hear about us? : don't rember
Gender : male~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EZ Bounce Management:

If this email has bounced, visit the following URL for bounce management:
http://www.****.net/forum/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=1



You mean this right?

[Antivirus]

It seems that there's another mod/hack sending out your email. My guess is that it's conflicting with EZbounce when creating the link as the email is sent out. What mod generates this email that was sent?

[BoredOutOfMyMin]

Great mod.

I have my users going to One Forum where they can post. This way when the Yahoo/Snotmail users get locked there, they can cry and moan and we know they are valid users.

[Dragonlair]

I think this is the greatest mod I have ever seen, if I can get it to work right for me.

I got a legitimately bounced email today but the link was incomplete, there was no usernumber. I clicked on it and got a blank screen. I could easily see the user number from the email and plugged it into the address and it worked!

We have the latest version installed. What's wrong? What do we need to do to get that link complete?

*** Later Information *** I see that some links do have the correct user number inlcuded and others have just U= with nothing after it. Are there some types of emails that don't include it? The ones that DON'T have it are the ones from "Contact Us" and the usernumber is shown right above the ezbounce link.

Diane

[Mrdby]

anti virus you never logged in to check my hack.

[Alfa1]

I can see how handy this is but at the same time I wonder how I can use this to improve bounced back email on a large board. I mean that I get a massive amount of bounced email per month. A monthly newsletter alone renders many thousands of bounced emails. Add subscriptions and notifications to that and the number of emails is quite unmanageable. I guess at least 10.000 per month. I am a bit in doubt whether it is feasible to start on such project. At the same time, I need to fix this as this is putting strain on my server.

What are your thoughts about this?

[beer4life]

Originally Posted by BellyBelly

I am having a problem with this - it is moving them to the usergroup when I click the link, but not overriding title of 'Member' or whatever they are... so I can see this being a nightmare when they all contact me to find out why they cant post etc when it's not visually obvious. I have turned it on to 'can override usertitle' but that only allows the user to do it... so is there any way to make the usertitle I have created (something like 'Please Update Your Email Address') to be the one to be displayed in their details? Otherwise I really see no point to this for me, I will get bombarded with lots of 'whys'....

G'Day Everyone,
I would suggest, nay, nominate this as the BMOTY(Best Mod Of The Year).
As the webmaster of an extremely large Board, I find this mod to be "The best thing since sliced bread and Vegemite.". Have been subject to dDoS attacks for the past 7 months, which I have largely negated. This, but another weapon in my arsenal. I'm still tweaking along the various suggestions in this thread, but in the meantime would like to add this observation.
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Many are aware that they can create a "New User Group" with appropriate permissions/title/colour, However this does not show in "Users On Line" in the "Footer Template". I've used "Bounced Email Users" with a #99FFFF coding.(azure). Whatever for a distinctive colour. To do this, go to Styles and Templates/ footer and find this , and insert the highlighted line. Perhaps it could be added in the next update.
------------------------------------------
May have to edit Footer Template
<div style="padding:3px">
<b><font color="#FF0000">Administrator</font></b>
| <b><font color="#0033FF">Super&nbsp;Moderator</font></b>
| <b><font color="#F4D600">Moderator</font></b>
| <b><font color="#9900CC">Filemaster</font></b>
| <b><font color="#FF9600">VIP&nbsp;Member</font></b>
| <b><font color="#99CC00">Donator</font></b>
| <font color="#22229C">Member</font>
| <i><font color="#707070">User&nbsp;Awaiting&nbsp;Email&nbsp ;Confirmation</font></i>
| <b><font color="#99FFFF">Bounced&nbsp;Email&nbsp;Users</font></b>
| <s><font color="#000000">Banned&nbsp;User</font></s>
</div>
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx

Forever in your debt for an excellent Mod and all your work supporting it.
Very Kindest Regards, Bill.

[djsydeburnz]

quick question. first of all, great hack. i love the large memeber count, but if only a fraction are active, why keep the old data. anyways, is there a way to have an annoucement show up on all pages per usergroup? im lazy and didnt search yet, but figured i'd ask. if they dont check thier pm when they get to the site, it would be nice to annoy them with an announcement that follows them around.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Dragonlair

I think this is the greatest mod I have ever seen, if I can get it to work right for me. I got a legitimately bounced email today but the link was incomplete, there was no usernumber. I clicked on it and got a blank screen. I could easily see the user number from the email and plugged it into the address and it worked! We have the latest version installed. What's wrong? What do we need to do to get that link complete?

*** Later Information *** I see that some links do have the correct user number inlcuded and others have just U= with nothing after it. Are there some types of emails that don't include it? The ones that DON'T have it are the ones from "Contact Us" and the usernumber is shown right above the ezbounce link.
Diane

All links should have the correct user number after it. I don';t know why some would and some wouldn't. Is there anything differen tabout the ones that are missing it? How / why are those sent as opposed to the others?

Originally Posted by Mrdby

anti virus you never logged in to check my hack.

Sorry mrdby, i'm not sure what you're talking about? Please clarify.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I can see how handy this is but at the same time I wonder how I can use this to improve bounced back email on a large board. I mean that I get a massive amount of bounced email per month. A monthly newsletter alone renders many thousands of bounced emails. Add subscriptions and notifications to that and the number of emails is quite unmanageable. I guess at least 10.000 per month. I am a bit in doubt whether it is feasible to start on such project. At the same time, I need to fix this as this is putting strain on my server. What are your thoughts about this?

It's just a matter of having to do it once, then not again (provided you never sent to users who requested not to receive emails from admins)

Originally Posted by djsydeburnz

quick question. first of all, great hack. i love the large memeber count, but if only a fraction are active, why keep the old data. anyways, is there a way to have an annoucement show up on all pages per usergroup? im lazy and didnt search yet, but figured i'd ask. if they dont check thier pm when they get to the site, it would be nice to annoy them with an announcement that follows them around.

Not sure what you mean by "member count". It's up to you regarding keepin gthe old data. If oyu want to get rid of members who are bouncing, then move em to another usergroup and prune the members of that group. This could certainly be modified to display a :"nag" message for members who's email has bounced. I'll consider it for next update.

[Dragonlair]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

All links should have the correct user number after it. I don';t know why some would and some wouldn't. Is there anything differen tabout the ones that are missing it? How / why are those sent as opposed to the others?

The ones that do not have the user number are the ones that user "Contact Us". The ones that are generated completely by the board do have the user number (such as activation, password and birthday). Only this one group is missing the number and it is given just above the bounce link as "USERID: xxxxxx" so I know the number is available.

I have to use the link in the body because the emails are forwarded to Gmail which does not allow access to the full header.