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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[Big Kahuna]

Mucho Gracis Amigo

I had to set my mail to be sent in VBs Options at SMTP to be able to receive the messages -- but once I did that I was good to go. I post this -- so others might not spend as much times as I did figuring out why I couldn't get the emails.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by AScherff

I figured out, that after installing these mod, two of cron-jobs (Birthday and Activation Reminder) are not run and have these error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in ..../includes/class_mail.php(266) : eval()'d code on line 4
code of line is

PHP Code:

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('mail_send')) ? eval($hook) : false; 


I've tested this on a clean install and don't have any problem running the cronjobs manually. They run just fine whether manually or automatically executed. Your issue may be that another modification is conflicting with this one - try searching for any other plugins which are utilizing the hook location 'mail_send' and tinker around with the plugin execution orders or disable the other mod.

If both of those don't work, then (and I don't think this will make a difference because I have no idea what you have that's causign the conflict with this) but try the following edit:

In plugin 'EZ Bounce Management - construct code':

Find:

PHP Code:

$buser = $db->query_first(" 


and REPLACE with:

PHP Code:

$buser = $vbulletin->db->query_first(" 


[AScherff]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

...try the following edit:

In plugin 'EZ Bounce Management - construct code':

Find:

PHP Code:

$buser = $db->query_first(" 


and REPLACE with:

PHP Code:

$buser = $vbulletin->db->query_first(" 


GREAT!!

This work around is the clue - it works

Thanks very much!
Alfred

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by AScherff

This work around is the clue - it works!

Interesting, i didn't think that would actually work, since $db is already globalized. Just out of curiosity, can you tell me which (if any) other mods have plugins utilizing the mail_send hook?

[AScherff]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

can you tell me which (if any) other mods have plugins utilizing the mail_send hook?

Hmm, not realy, because i don't know
but if it helps i can PN you a list of my installed Mod's.

[Antivirus]

I think it's an issue with your server configuration. Regardless, the fix above works, so i'll update the mod to avoide the rare circumstance of anyone else having the same problem you did. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[HDT]

Got problem here.

Success installed mods but when system found user with invalid email address,system do not moved current user to specify usergroup.

For your information I use setting below.

- Update Member's Usergroup when Processing Bounces? Yes
- Move Bouncing Members to this Usergroup ID 3
- Show EZ Bounce link in email message body No

But not work at all,then I change Move Bouncing Members to this Usergroup ID to 15 (Customs usergroup) but still same problem.

Help please

By the way in mod package I found plugin_code.php,where must upload this file?

[Vinyljunky]

Thank you for the update.

I hope you enjoy your new CD ;-)

VinylJunky

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by HDT

Got problem here. Success installed mods but when system found user with invalid email address, system do not moved current user to specify usergroup.

When you say "invalid" email address, do you mean an email which bounces, or something else?

Originally Posted by HDT

By the way in mod package I found plugin_code.php,where must upload this file?

ignore that file, not supposed to be there. v1.10 package has been updated.

[HDT]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

When you say "invalid" email address, do you mean an email which bounces, or something else?

I am not sure but below is message when I receive email from this mod:

This email shows that the product is installed and working as it should be.

Emails sent to:user A,user B,user C . We tried to email the following users, but their email address was invalid

But look like user A,user B,user C not moved to current usergroup destination (usergroup 3).