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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[Mrdby]

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[Mrdby]

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[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

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Originally Posted by Mrdby

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Please stop wasting everyone's time with pointless posts like these. Try reading the thread and the installation instructions and in most cases you'll find your questions are already answered.

[Mrdby]

Djbaxer Fall back. Seems like you the only one having a problem. This isn't your hack. You either can help me or STFU.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

Djbaxer Fall back. Seems like you the only one having a problem.

I doubt that. Thread bumping is almost universally hated.

Originally Posted by Mrdby

This isn't your hack. You either can help me or STFU.

I did help you. I advised you to read the installation instructions and this thread. Did you do that?

[Mrdby]

of course i did man lol Let me GO BACK and download once more.

[Mrdby]

maybe even the inactive user email reminder could be conflicting with it. But i did do everything as followed in the install/readme txt.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

still the same. Should i post a list of my mods? I can give you access to my site if you like.

The following is ONLY applicable if you're using the "Email Inactive Users" mod v1.09 and given all the noise here, I'm not sure if you are or not.

If you are, then on my system, when running with the "Email Inactive Users" mod, I get bounced emails with no links in the body of the bounced email for me to manage email.

Instead, what I have to do is open the email that was sent and at the top of my Outlook email program, I select <V>iew, <O>ptions and then in the box under Internet Headers scroll to the bottom. You'll see an HTML link following the phrase X-EZbouncer:

I simply cut-n-paste that link into a browser window and this mod works fine from there forward, managing that user ID.

I realize that it's a round about way if getting there and it isn't as simple as clicking a link within the body of the bounced sent email from the "Email Inactive Users" mod, but it works and it isn't that inconvenient for me, in order to get the benefit of using both mods together.

Regards,
Badger

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Can this be caused by ezbounced:

I think it's most likely a conflict with some other mod on your site, as the current version works as designed on a clean install.

Originally Posted by Dragonlair

The only other mod we have that affects emails at all is Validate E-Mail 1.0 to try to catch the email errors before they even get through the registration process.

That might be your problem, as this mod uses one of the same hooks while confirming new emails after previously bouncing.

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

This workaround will not work, because one clicks on the link in the email which contains the ezbounce link to the ACP. So the ACP will open instantly with /board/admincp/ezbounce.php etc. There is no option to use a new window, unless you are already logged in to the ACP.

That's exactly how you need to do it, log in to your adminCP, then minimize that window. Then, when you click on your ezbounce link in another browser window, right-click to open in an new window and then just clost that new window after.

Originally Posted by Mrdby

Djbaxer Fall back. You either can help me or STFU.

Djbaxter was trying to help you. Please be nice.

[Black Tiger]

That's exactly how you need to do it,

Oke but I don't like that method because I like the logoff funktion when I'm ready, for which at this moment, I have to change the url manually to the index.php of the admincp, because then you have the logoff funktion on the right hand upper side.

I saw in the ezbounce php file a link to http://admincp.url/user.php which appears when you are ready handling a user with ezbounce.
I'm gonna change that to http://admincp.url/index.php so after the ezbounce handling I get the normal ACP screen and not only the user.php screen.

But I saw two or three of them I don't know which one to change, would be nice if you could point out which to change because I'm not very good at php.