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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[symptome]

Wow, not very funny

Isn't it possible to put it outside the admin folder?
And then to configure the real adminfolder in ezbounce-configuration and to use that path to process?

[djbaxter]

It is just a link to the Admin CP. Period.

It doesn't give anyone without a password access to your ACP. Installing this mod doesn't make your forum any less secure than a standard vBulletin installation.

[symptome]

As far as I know, it is a good idea to rename admincp, because this is one step more in security. And with that, the path shouldn't be visible to anyone. Or it isn't necessary to rename admincp

[Alfa1]

I agree with baxter. Though, those admins that have changed the location of their adminCP for security reasons, should realize that there is a small chance that people may find out where it is by looking at email headers. I do not think there is a major risk in this. It is always possible to password protect the adminCP directory from the server side.

[djbaxter]

Renaming your admincp folder doesn't suddenly make your vBulletin installation secure. All it really does is add an extra complication to forum upgrades and add-on or style installations.

Real security starts with server configuration and password security.

[Sym0n]

Has anyone tested this with 3.8 yet? If so is it working? I'd hate to lose this after upgrading.

[MissKalunji]

Still working on mine

[Antivirus]

There are plenty of vbulletin sites running with the admincp located in the default forum/admincp/ location, and are just as secure. Regardless of the admincp directory's being re-named, it still boils down to the fact that they can not access it without knowing your password. Therefore this mod does not make your site any less secure than it would be without installing it.

[AndrewRich]

Installed!

[clearchannel]

I'm using this in vB 3.82 it did work the first time around with a test user, then I started getting a blank white page so I uninstalled and reinstalled it.

Now I get a database error

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:

                UPDATE 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
Request Date  : Sunday, April 5th 2009 @ 01:37:13 PM
Error Date    : Sunday, April 5th 2009 @ 01:37:13 PM
Script        : http://mydomain.com/forums/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Username      : blank
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-community

I notice it left the user id out of the script url any suggestions?