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 Davey-UK

When/if will this be updated to work with 3.7??

3.7 is still in beta, so it won't happen until after a stable version is released - when 3.7 goes gold.

[WebConnection]

This is great! Is it OK with 3.6.5 version?

[rwoscott]

Originally Posted by WebConnection

This is great! Is it OK with 3.6.5 version?

Yep., works perfectly.

[azn_romeo_4u]

So, if you want to disable bounce mails, you have to manually click a link? Like if you had 10,000 bouncing accounts, you would have to do it all manually?

[rwoscott]

Originally Posted by azn_romeo_4u

So, if you want to disable bounce mails, you have to manually click a link? Like if you had 10,000 bouncing accounts, you would have to do it all manually?

Yep.

[Black Tiger]

I don't understand I can't get it to work.
Tried reinstalling (with overwrite), then when clicking a EZ bounce-link I only got a white screen. After completely reinstalling, the link in the email appears, user got put in the other usergroup. After validating his email adres he gets the message "try to login you are already verified" or something like this, whilst he IS already logged in.

User is not put back to his original usergroup.
So again an uninstall, uploaded the original ezbounce.php, imported the code again still getting the white page without the user being moved to another usergroup.
The source of the white page only says:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

My hair are falling out, I can't seem to get this working.
I'm running 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 on the forum this happens too.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

I don't understand I can't get it to work. I'm running 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 on the forum this happens too.

Did you uninstall this before re-installing?
Do you have any other mods installed?

The mod works perfectly on a clean install of all versions of 3.6.x

[Black Tiger]

Deleted my test user, created him again and tried again. Now email is being send again but in 1 piece, no paragraphs, all text after each other.
I can click the ezbounce link, and no white screen anymore.
But after user updates his email and verifies, again he is not put back to his original usergroup nore are his options (like receive adminemail etc.) put back to original, although message is saying "succesfully verified" or something like that.
I'm sorry but won't work, even not after disabling the 1 mod which could influence this.

I also uninstalled before reinstalling, reinstalled without uninstalling.. doesn't help.

[Black Tiger]

Other mods installed:
Ataquan marquee text which is a scrolling bar.
Forum statistics, mod statistics, post thank you hack and Un-activated Usermanagement (this last one I had disabled during the last test).

[Black Tiger]

LoL, stranges things happen now. I uninstalled the Un-activated user management.
Then I installed (because I had it uninstalled) Ezbounced again.
Did another test, user updated the account and tried to log in, got this message:

Your account has already been activated so please try logging in.

And he just logged in!?
Tried a second time and I got in (with the test account), but usergroup is not back to original, nore are settings.
By the way... This was the activation email, everything behind each other:

Geachte testen, Aangezien u onlangs uw e-mail hebt veranderd, wij vereisen dat u uw nieuw e-mailadres verifi?ert. U zult slechts op de link moeten klikken en uw account zal worden bijgewerkt. Om verdere controle te voltooien, klik op de verbinding hieronder: http://www.xxxxxxx.org/forum/registe...636&i=58382419 <a href="http://www.xxxxxxx.org/forum/register.php?a=act&u=32636&i=58382419">AOL Gebruikers klik hier om te activeren</a> **** Werkt de Bovengenoemde link niet? **** Als de bovengenoemde link niet werkt, gelieve te gebruiken uw Web browser om te gaan naar: http://www.xxxx.org/forum/register.php?a=ver Gelieve zeker te zijn om extra ruimten niet toe te voegen. U zult in uw gebruikersnaam en activerings nummer op de pagina moeten typen die lijkt wanneer u op ons exemplaar de bovengenoemde verbinding in uw browser etc..

It's in Dutch but no whitelines or whitespaces. This started after the first time uninstalling and installing. I think the best thing is to uninstall, then wait until a new version for vB3.7 and install again.
In any case it wasn't the Un-activated user mod because I had this completely uninstalled this time before installing ezbounce.

Maybe I try this on my other forum this week and see how it works there, or can I break things then? Because my other forum is 3.7 beta 4?