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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[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Basically, if a bounced email has the phrase "This is a permanent error" in it, then the ezbounced link needs to be clicked. Does anyone have an idea for a script for this?

That would be nice, yes. Unfortunatlely however that would require email piping and connection to the mail server directly, which is beyond the scope of this mod.

[Merrillizer]

I installed it, used it, but disabled it because after sending out a newsletter today to members, I received the usual few bounced back emails. I logged in as a member with a bunk email, updated to a valid email, then when I went into the email account and clicked to link to validate the new email address, I was taking to an error on the register.php page.

SiGH.

[Alfa1]

We are slowly working our way through thousands of bounced emails. Even though it is tedious, it is the only solution there is.

just a tip that may help others:

It may be a good idea to to download the emails and then do a search for the following terms, so that you can delete them in one go:

1. 'quota' - gives bounced email with the reason mailbox full
2. 'mailbox full' - gives bounced email with the reason mailbox full
3. 'incorrectly constructed' - - gives bounced email with the reason explained above
4. 'Delayed' - gives delayed mail

[Black Tiger]

I'm having the same problem as Merrillizer, however I got 1.8 still installed. So I wil first upgrade to 1.10 and then test if it's fixed.

[Black Tiger]

Problem is still present in 1.10.

I also disabled the plugin. Had to put the users back to a normal account with the prune/move user option because there is no way of saying if they already changed their email address.

Hopefully this will be fixed otherwise I have to uninstall and that should be a share because it's a great mod!

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Merrillizer

I installed it, used it, but disabled it because after sending out a newsletter today to members, I received the usual few bounced back emails. I logged in as a member with a bunk email, updated to a valid email, then when I went into the email account and clicked to link to validate the new email address, I was taking to an error on the register.php page. SiGH.

Hi Merrillizer, you shouldn't be getting that kiind of behavior from this on a clean install. It sounds like it may be conflicting with another modification. Do you have any other mods installed? If so , which ones?

[Black Tiger]

I have exactly the same problem and had installed ezbounce already a while ago.
These are my installed hacks:
1.) Atakan Marquee Text
2.) Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
3.) Moderator Statistics
4.) Post Thank You hack
5.) Un-Activated User Management

And ofcourse Ezbounce. None of the above hacks have anything to do with mail except the Un-activated user management which only checks the "waiting confirmation" usergroup while Ezbounce is checking only the "read-only" group which I created myself.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

And ofcourse Ezbounce. None of the above hacks have anything to do with mail except the Un-activated user management which only checks the "waiting confirmation" usergroup while Ezbounce is checking only the "read-only" group which I created myself.

I would expect that your problem is caused by the Un-activated user management Modification. Ican't commit to when I will have time to look into this mod to se why it's a problem, but it's got to be the reason, as it's the only one that delves into usergroup ids, etc...

[Black Tiger]

Hmmz.. I can't imagine that.
Like I said it only checks users in the "awaiting email confirmation" group. Send them a mail after 3, 5 and 8 days. If they are still in this group 10 days after registration, it deletes the user.
As far as I can see it does not look at any other usergroups.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

I have exactly the same problem and had installed ezbounce already a while ago.
These are my installed hacks:
1.) Atakan Marquee Text
2.) Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
3.) Moderator Statistics
4.) Post Thank You hack
5.) Un-Activated User Management

And ofcourse Ezbounce. None of the above hacks have anything to do with mail except the Un-activated user management which only checks the "waiting confirmation" usergroup while Ezbounce is checking only the "read-only" group which I created myself.

Originally Posted by Antivirus

I would expect that your problem is caused by the Un-activated user management Modification. Ican't commit to when I will have time to look into this mod to se why it's a problem, but it's got to be the reason, as it's the only one that delves into usergroup ids, etc...

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Hmmz.. I can't imagine that.
Like I said it only checks users in the "awaiting email confirmation" group. Send them a mail after 3, 5 and 8 days. If they are still in this group 10 days after registration, it deletes the user.
As far as I can see it does not look at any other usergroups.

It's not Unactivated User Management since I have that one installed too and EZ Boumce works great for me..

Of those in the list above, I do NOT use:

1.) Atakan Marquee Text
2.) Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
or
4.) Post Thank You hack