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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[banuchi2]

Originally Posted by XtAzY

but now i think i found another bug..

I wondered about that. That's great that you were able to figure that out for all of us here. Thanks.




Antivirus,
Great job...again! I have one thought. Would it be possible to "choose" where the link goes. For example, some may choose the link to be in the header and some in the bottom of the email. The only reason I say this is that although the hack is working great, I'm using Yahoo Email and the link is not clickable. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm going to attach an image of what I'm seeing. Thanks again for you hard work.

[Nathan2006]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

did you process the bounce before or after the update?

What are your settings for this mod in admincp?

Sorry I have been ill the past couple of days and not done much.

Yeah I had moved the user over after the fresh install.

But now I have just installed the next version everything is working great

Thank you for the update

Originally Posted by banuchi2

I wondered about that. That's great that you were able to figure that out for all of us here. Thanks.




Antivirus,
Great job...again! I have one thought. Would it be possible to "choose" where the link goes. For example, some may choose the link to be in the header and some in the bottom of the email. The only reason I say this is that although the hack is working great, I'm using Yahoo Email and the link is not clickable. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm going to attach an image of what I'm seeing. Thanks again for you hard work.

Would be a great idea

I'm using Yahoo Mail and its a pain clicking on "View Full Headers" on each email and copy/pasting the link each time

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by XtAzY

I think the hack should check if that user is already been bounced.

Ok, good point - i added this check in version 1.5 which i just released today.

Originally Posted by banuchi2

Would it be possible to "choose" where the link goes. For example, some may choose the link to be in the header and some in the bottom of the email.

Sure, i added an additional setting which gives admins option to also display the EZbounce link in the email message body. This is particularly usefull if admin's email client doesn't parse html when displaying email headers, or if the email client doesn't allow viewing of email headers at all.

I still suggest keepin gthis feature turned OFF and hiding the link in the email header, while using an email client which parses html while displaying email headers.

[djbaxter]

A great add-on getting better as it goes along. Thanks!

[banuchi2]

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[obmob]

Hmm... i guess i need to read this carefully, thanks! XD

[Nathan2006]

This is really good now

Just one small problem in emails sent out I get this at the bottom:

Management:
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=4"
target="_blank">http://www.mysite.com/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=4</a>

Is there anyway just to have it as one link cos I don't use html in my emails

Thanks

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Nathan2006

This is really good now

Just one small problem in emails sent out I get this at the bottom:

Management:
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=4"
target="_blank">http://www.mysite.com/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=4</a>

Is there anyway just to have it as one link cos I don't use html in my emails

Thanks

It's your email client that does that - word-wrapping because the string is continuous characters with only one space before 'href' and one space before 'target' in the entire string. If you allow HTML in your emails, you can click on the first line as a live link. If you don't allow HTML, nothing will make it a live link and your only option is copy-and-paste.

[Nathan2006]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

It's your email client that does that - word-wrapping because the string is continuous characters with only one space before 'href' and one space before 'target' in the entire string. If you allow HTML in your emails, you can click on the first line as a live link. If you don't allow HTML, nothing will make it a live link and your only option is copy-and-paste.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

In the other version I used to get just the one line which I could click on.

Yahoo mail always allows me to click any links.

I have added screenshots from before and after with the older version 1st

[djbaxter]

Hmmm... your second screenshot is what I've always seen, from the first version I installed. But since I do allow HTML, the first line is a live link anyway so it works fine for me.