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.
Bought the new CD entitled Sleaze Freak by Scum Of The Earth on Amazon.com

#> 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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[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

I just upgraded, but could not find these settings. Are the new options all automatic settings or can I adjust them?

They're all automatic pretty much

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

If they are automatic, could the next version be made so the admin can decide for himself if he want's admins, supermods and mods protected?

I could allow Admin to set which usergroups are "immune" to EZBounce Management in a future update, yes.

[Black Tiger]

I could allow Admin to set which usergroups are "immune" to EZBounce Management in a future update, yes.

That would be very nice, because in my opinion if a moderator/admin is serious enough he should think of adjusting the email adres in time.
So thank you in advance!

However you forgot to answer 1 question:

Quote:
(if turned on) When member updates & confirms their new email, they are returned to original usergroup.

Can't find this setting either.
Running vbulletin 3.6.5.

Since it says "if turned on" there should be an option to turn it on or off. However, like stated I can't find such option.
There is only the option (yes/no) to put a user in another usergroup if his email get's bounced but that option was there already before the new version.
So this question remains open, where can I find this setting that they will be returned to their original usergroup "on/off"?

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Since it says "if turned on" there should be an option to turn it on or off. However, like stated I can't find such option.
There is only the option (yes/no) to put a user in another usergroup if his email get's bounced but that option was there already before the new version.
So this question remains open, where can I find this setting that they will be returned to their original usergroup "on/off"?

With the "Move managed members " turned on, If the user was moved to another usergroup when managed for bouncing, when they update their email address (and confirm it) they will automatically be moved back to their original usergroup.

With the "move managed members" turned off, their usergroup is never changed to begin with so there's no need to move their usergroup when/if they update their email.

[Black Tiger]

Oke thanks for the explanation.

I've discovered a problem now.
Today I clicked the ezbounce link, I think it's the first time since I installed this new version.

Now there is a problem. The user will get moved to the usergroup, i suppose he will get a pm too, but the ACP window in IE6 goes completely blank.
Normally you can see the name of the user which is being handled for bouncing. Now nothing is shown and the screen turns blank.

How can I fix this?

[Antivirus]

Hmm... it doesn't sound like it makes any sense... Could you please paste the EZbounce link contained in the exact email you clicked on when you got the problem?

[Black Tiger]

Well... there is no difference in that. I removed that particular email, got another bounced email just a few minutes ago, the link is like this:

X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: vBulletin Mail via PHP
X-EZbouncer: http://www.myforms.com/board/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=31760

So seems nothing wrong with the link. Like I said, the link works and the user gets moved to the bounced users usergroup. Only the screen gets blank and IE says "ready".

Just to be sure if nothing else maybe caused a hickup, I will try tomorrow again with another email and then try with IE and with Firefox, just to make sure that IE is not the problem.

[Black Tiger]

Problem solved. Must have been a temporary failure. Yesterday I got blank screens.
Today everything is working fine so I think it has been a hickup somewhere on our server or on my system.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Antivirus]

No problem, glad u got it worked out

[hugh_]

Would it be possible to add the ability to choose the user who sends the PM?

Thanks...

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by hugh_

Would it be possible to add the ability to choose the user who sends the PM?

Thanks...

Sure, you could simply edit the ezbounce.php file as follows...

Find this:

PHP Code:

        // Set other funky stuff for PM
        $pmdm->set('fromuserid', $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']); 


Replace with this:

PHP Code:

        // Set other funky stuff for PM
        $pmdm->set('fromuserid', FUSER); 


Be sure to replace FUSER above with the actual userid of the user you want to have sent the PM.