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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[jluerken]

Since a few days I am getting this db error message when I click on a bouce link in an email

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:

                UPDATE vb3_user
                SET ezb_oldugid = 
                WHERE userid =;

MySQL Error  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE userid =' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
Date         : Friday, March 7th 2008 @ 09:23:55 AM
Script       : http://www.url.de/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=3075
Referrer     : 


I reimported the product and uploaded the files again but still I get this error.
Anyone an idea?

UPDATE:
Ok I found the error. The user with the Id 3075 does not exist anymore.
Can we get an update of this great product that gives the correct error message in this case instead of a db error?

[Nitro212]

gretas works fine for now

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by jluerken

UPDATE:
Ok I found the error. The user with the Id 3075 does not exist anymore.
Can we get an update of this great product that gives the correct error message in this case instead of a db error?

Good call, i put this into the to-do list for the next update.

[djbaxter]

Weird. I've seen this reported previously. Still using vBulletin 5.6.8 PL2. From one day to the next, this stopped inserting the EZ Bounce link into the header.

I've changed it to insert it into the email as a workaround.

Any ideas as to what would cause this?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Weird. I've seen this reported previously. Still using vBulletin 5.6.8 PL2. From one day to the next, this stopped inserting the EZ Bounce link into the header.

I've changed it to insert it into the email as a workaround.

Any ideas as to what would cause this?

I have no idea why but I set it back to have it insert the headers and it's working again. The only thing that happened between when it was working and wasn't working was the nightly updates to my server software. The only thing that happened between when it wasn't working and when it started working again was another nightly update.

Sometimes, computers can be just annoying.

[Antivirus]

lol yeah - it's enough to drive ya nuts some times

[Michel Fortin]

Hi,

When someone logs in and updates their email address, are they automatically reinstated into the regular usergroup? Or are they still in the "bounced email" usergroup? And do we have to move them back to the regular usegroup manually?

Thanks.

[GTX2]

i have this installed but i'm having members complaining that they can't change their email in usercp after being at "bouced" usergroup. Did a test with a test-user and its not ok.
How can i set this to allow all users change their email at usercp? I can do it for myself as admin...

thanks

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Michel Fortin

Hi,When someone logs in and updates their email address, are they automatically reinstated into the regular usergroup? Or are they still in the "bounced email" usergroup? And do we have to move them back to the regular usegroup manually?Thanks.

Correct

Originally Posted by GTX2

i have this installed but i'm having members complaining that they can't change their email in usercp after being at "bouced" usergroup. Did a test with a test-user and its not ok.How can i set this to allow all users change their email at usercp? I can do it for myself as admin...thanks

Another mod on your site must be conflicting with this, as that is not the usual behavior on a clean install. What version of vbulletin are you running? Have you ever uninstalled then reinstalled this mod?

[haytham]

I had the same trouble with this mod. People kept correcting their emails and confirmed it but weren't getting back on the member's list so I had to do it manually. I used this mod just to get rid of users with fake emails and waited for them to contact me so I can add them manually to the registered users group. So, I think this is a common problem not an individual one.