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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[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by 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.

Once I re-add the option to move these bouncing members to another usergroup, you'll be able to prune the users that have bounced usung default vbulletin features.

Originally Posted by criscokid

I assume the 'receive admin emails' is set back to yes providing the user clicks on the link in the PM?

Incorrect, the setting is changed back after they click submit in the update email/password page.

Originally Posted by criscokid

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?

Sure, since it happens when they click submit, it doesn't matter how they get there it's updated when they update their email address.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Incorrect, the setting is changed back after they click submit in the update email/password page.

Sure, since it happens when they click submit, it doesn't matter how they get there it's updated when they update their email address.

Does your MOD set this up, Antivirus? Because I don't believe this is default vBulletin behavior.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Does your MOD set this up, Antivirus? Because I don't believe this is default vBulletin behavior.

Yes, this is part of the modification's features.

[djbaxter]

Woo-hoo! I seem to be in stunned mode this afternoon but I just tried this out with my weekly newsletter.

Works perfectly!

[BobbyBig]

How about a Forum having 2000+ Users, the Admin cant click on all these email Headers.
If this just sets the "Receive Email from Admin" Option, it doesnt seems to be very usefully for the Meaning of "EZ Bounced Email Management for Admins". Management should also include changing Usergroups.

regards

[Antivirus]

I don't think you understand... You only have to click on the link in the email header of those emails which bounce back. Which therefore helps you to avoid sending these bouncing members emails until they update their password.

Previous to this version, you had to do the following steps to manage bouncing emails:
1) open the bounced email
2) type the email address or username of the bouncing member into the AdminCP>Search for Members page
3) scroll through the list of returned results and open the bouncing member's "edit user" page
4) scroll through the edit member page and either change their usergroup, receive admin emails setting or whatever other method you used to deal with bounces
5) click submit to deal with the member

Now with this, you just click the link in the email header and you're done. One step as opposed to five certainly sounds easier to me, but i could be wrong...

The next version (which will be released this week) will give you the option in your settings to change either usergroup or receive admin emails (or both) if you choose.

[Bounce]

I have a question ...

forgive my stoopidness lol , what email does a bounced email go to ?

is it the webmasters contact in your admin cp ?

I just set up a test account with an email addy that does not exsist. well i do not think spammy@tuu.org does

now i just sent an email just to that user and goto check to see if its bounced in my email and nothing is there

IS my mail set up wrong or am i missing something ?

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

I have a question ... is it the webmasters contact in your admin cp ? I just set up a test account with an email addy that does not exsist. well i do not think spammy@tuu.org does

Correct, if the email is bouncing, then it shoudl bounce back to your webmaster contact which you set up in your admincp's vbulletin contact info settings. Perhaps the email is a real email, try somethign like iofhefe43948@tuu.org as opposed to a word to test. also, sometimes depending upon the mail servers settings which can't find the email address it may take up to 24 hours to bounce back (it's uncommon but happens sometimes).

This will also bounce if you send the email from "send email to user" feature when viewing users profile out of the forums as well. i.e. you don't just have to send an email from within the admincp. All outgoing email sent from the AdminCP (or the forums) will have this in the header if it bounces.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Correct, if the email is bouncing, then it shoudl bounce back to your webmaster contact which you set up in your admincp's vbulletin contact info settings. Perhaps the email is a real email, try somethign like iofhefe43948@tuu.org as opposed to a word to test. also, sometimes depending upon the mail servers settings which can't find the email address it may take up to 24 hours to bounce back (it's uncommon but happens sometimes).

This will also bounce if you send the email from "send email to user" feature when viewing users profile out of the forums as well. i.e. you don't just have to send an email from within the admincp. All outgoing email sent from the AdminCP (or the forums) will have this in the header if it bounces.

thanks,

have changed email and resent a test email via admin cp email users just to that test account with the dodgy email lol,i'll check mail client it morning (outlook) , i thought i had it set up correctly as out of office mails come back to me but hardly ever,if at all get any bounced ones back..

althou i have verify email address on at registration I can't see 8000+ users having a valid email addy.. althou happy days if they all do lol

many thanks av :up:

[Antivirus]

you're welcome! - i hope to have the update done by end of this week. The update will add the ability to change the bouncing members usergroup when link in header is clicked, so for instance, you create a bouncing usergroup and after you process all bounces, you can prune all members in this group, etc...