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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[bela-meaad]

does this move usergroup 6 to 3 if admin email bounced ?

that will be a problem

[Black Tiger]

You can set to which usergroup to move in the admincp.
Or you can disable moving if you wish.

[bela-meaad]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

You can set to which usergroup to move in the admincp.
Or you can disable moving if you wish.

i want to auto move them to usergroup 3
but only members not admin & mod

is that possible?

[Black Tiger]

No, at this moment there is no exclude option for certain usergroups.
Maybe the coder can make such thing but it would be better as admins and mods would know their responsibility's and have their email address always correct.

[bada_bing]

i want to auto move them to usergroup 3
but only members not admin & mod

is that possible?

Now that is a wise idea.. When that feature is included I will install it.. hate to be an admin and for some reason my .domain name gets blacklisted and im moved to a group with no admin right could bite you in the butt

[Black Tiger]

LoL, what kind of admins are you all if you don't have your email addres correct at al times.
Sorry to say so but that seems funny to me.

By the way... you can include the userid's of admins in the config.php file, then their accounts never will be changed.

[Antivirus]

despite i can't really imagine any forums out there having an admin who's email address bounces, the next version will include a safety check just to be safe.

[Smoothie]

Guys, think before you post nonsense. Ya have to click the link in the email that gets bounced back to you before anyone gets moved to a different usergroup.

[APhoenix]

Just installed, and am encountering an error message if I try to run any of my mail related scheduled tasks:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/mousepad.mouseplanet.com/includes/class_mail.php(261) : eval()'d code on line 4

If I disable this product, it works fine. But once the product is active, the scripts break.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by APhoenix

Just installed, and am encountering an error message if I try to run any of my mail related scheduled tasks. If I disable this product, it works fine. But once the product is active, the scripts break.

Hmm... you're the first to report this issue, I haven't had any problem with that. Perhaps it's conflicting with one of your other hacks? Or perhaps you'll need to change the execution order of the plugin for hook location MAIL_SEND. Which mail-related scheduled tasks are you having a problem with?