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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[Black Tiger]

Normally in the mailqueu of the mailserver of your hostingprovider.
If you have root rights on the servers, you could have a look.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by scotsmist

edit whoops, sorry, I just read that there's talk of this on page 7, I am laughing you guys think its funny, but in reality domains get blacklisted all the time, whole IP ranges too, so its very likely that a mod or worse, an admin could end up locked out of their board.

The next version of this mod will do a safety check to prevent unalterable users from being managed for bounces.

[scoutz]

So when I have 500 emails bouncing back to me I would have to click this link in every message or?

[cashpath]

Yes, you would

[djbaxter]

Yes but if you set it up properly you'll only have to do this for one complete run through your database. The first few days, I was clicking through batches of 50, I think (the number is selectable in your ACP). After that, I get perhaps one or two a week.

[Doug Nelson]

What about members that are in more than one usergroup? Such as with some paid subscriptions?

And users that have forgotten their password. Will the password reminder still work for them?

And what if they fix the bouncing problem. Will they be able to keep the same email in their profile, only reactivate it?

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

What about members that are in more than one usergroup? Such as with some paid subscriptions?

And users that have forgotten their password. Will the password reminder still work for them?

And what if they fix the bouncing problem. Will they be able to keep the same email in their profile, only reactivate it?

Members in more than 1 usergrup shouldn't be a problem as this will only change their primary usergroup.

Pasword reminder should still work as well.

As far as keeping original email, that shouldn't be a problem either since the bouncing members email is not changed, only the option to receive emails.

[wolfe]

this clashes with the inactive users hack.

Inactive User Reminder Emails
Found 3 Inactive Users.

Sent To: **********

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

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by wolfe

this clashes with the inactive users hack.

Inactive User Reminder Emails
Found 3 Inactive Users.

Sent To: **********

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

Actually, it doesn't. Uninstall 1.10 or 1.09 of the inactive users add-on. Download and install version 1.09. They work just fine together.

Chris is working on the issues with versions 1.10 and 1.11. Use 1.09 in the meantime.

[Doug Nelson]

So we would need to enable PM for users in the Waiting for Email Confirmation group?