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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[djbaxter]

Makes sense. Why is that a problem?

[Nathan2006]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Almqdad, did you upload the ezbounce.php file to your admincp directory?

Nathan, you could get the single link bouncecode back in your emails by altering the code as follows, but I would suggest changing it within the plugin for mail_send instead of doing it in the xml file (it's always safer to avoid editing xml plugins manually).

Try changing following:

PHP Code:

$bounceurl = $vbulletin->options['ezb_admincpurl'] . "/ezbounce.php?u=" . $buser['userid'];
$bouncestring = "<a href="$bounceurl" target="_blank">$bounceurl</a>"; 


to this:

PHP Code:

$bounceurl = $vbulletin->options['ezb_admincpurl'] . "/ezbounce.php?u=" . $buser['userid'];
$bouncestring = $bounceurl; 


Untested, but I think that'll do the trick for what you want.

Thanks Antivirus

that worked great

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by almqdad

have some body noticed this when members use the Contact Us link the ezbounce link
http://www.mysite.com/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=1
contains the admin user Id and not the member Id please check it up

the userid shown in the EZbounce url should be that of the email's original recipient. For instance, if you receive a bounced email which was sent to username BOB with userid 2339, then the EZbounce URL would look like the following:

http://www.mysite.com/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=2339

[djbaxter]

the userid shown in the EZbounce url should be that of the email's original recipient

Yes, exactly. And if someone uses the "Contact us" form, the original recipient is the Admin, typically userid=1.

[MikeWarner]

Hi - good hack, but I have a few questions.

When I click the link in the bounced email, it comes up with the admincp and says "User whatever is being managed for bouncing emials". Is it possible to see a list of users that are being managed.

Also, the PM that tells them to change their email address creates an email which bounces.... I think this hack should include and option so that when you click that link, is dissables all 4 email setting for the user:

- Receive emails from admin
- Receive Email from Other Members
- Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages
- Default Thread Subscription Mode (set to "No email notification")

It would then be up to them to change them back once they update their email. This could be detailed in the PM.

Anyway - I hope future releases bring more functunality to what is potentially a great tool.

Thanks

Mike

[rapsearch]

Awsome... it always gave me headache when massmailing... thanks!!

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by MikeWarner

Is it possible to see a list of users that are being managed.

The script only manages 1 user each time you run it- the user which the bounced email was originally sent to

Originally Posted by MikeWarner

I think this hack should include and option so that when you click that link, is dissables the other 3 email setting for the user:
- Receive Email from Other Members
- Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages
- Default Thread Subscription Mode (set to "No email notification")

Good suggestion, i'll look into it & possibly include in a future release

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by MikeWarner

Is it possible to see a list of users that are being managed.

If you create a new group for bounced users and select the option to send the user to that group when you click the EZ Bounce link, then you have a ready made list of everyone who has been bounced - access it from your Admin CP | Usergroups or with a custom SQL query.

[MikeWarner]

Can't do that as I'm using paid subscriptions and have problems enough with usergroups updating correctly once exiry occurs.

I've been going through manually turning off users email features for those with bouncing emails.

[ludachris]

Hey guys, is there any settings that would allow this hack to make the user account changes automatically? Without having to click on the link in the email header? The reason I ask is because I have a member who got moved to the specified usergroup and I didn't move them. I was wondering if it was done by this hack?