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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[dirtycrow]

evey user that i attempt to use this on is reported as a "protected usergroup"

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

If you are using Inactive Users Reminder Email: .....

Ok, I just had another bounce sent to me after I made the changes above.....

EZ-Bounce information or actions didn't seem to happen for this one either...

Anything else you could suggets, or should I just un-install this mod?

I like v1.09 of "Inactive Mail". It works well and really makes a difference on my system keeping folks coming back after 90 days.

Thanks for your help.... :up:

Regards,
Badger

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by dirtycrow

evey user that i attempt to use this on is reported as a "protected usergroup"

That's most likely due to your usergroup ids not being default. To fix this, you'll need to edit the protected usergroups in your Ezbounce.php file. By default, 5,6,7 is Admins, Supermods, and Mods...

Find this:
if (is_member_of($buser['usergroupid'], 5,6,7))

And replace 5,6,7 with your protected usergroup ids.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

EZ-Bounce information or actions didn't seem to happen for this one either...

Please be more descriptive as to what "didn't seem to happen" means.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

That's most likely due to your usergroup ids not being default. To fix this, you'll need to edit the protected usergroups in your Ezbounce.php file. By default, 5,6,7 is Admins, Supermods, and Mods...

Find this:
if (is_member_of($buser['usergroupid'], 5,6,7))

And replace 5,6,7 with your protected usergroup ids.

Please be more descriptive as to what "didn't seem to happen" means.

My EZbounce.php says:

if (is_member_of($buser['usergroupid'], 5,6,7))

Which are the groups for my Admin, Senior Moderator and Moderator groups.

To clarify what is happening, I'm getting sent to me as the web site administrator, the standard ISP "bounced email". The one that encapsulates the original email sent to the member and its content says:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <mail@accessmp3.info>
(reason: 550 "Unknown User")

----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.accessmp3.info.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 "Unknown User"
550 5.1.1 <mail@accessmp3.info>... User unknown <<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA

I can't find anywhere any of the information, links or screens that look like the ones in the mod here, that indicate the mod is working for me.

Thank you for your efforts... :up:

Regards,
Badger

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Ok, I just had another bounce sent to me after I made the changes above.....

EZ-Bounce information or actions didn't seem to happen for this one either...

Anything else you could suggets, or should I just un-install this mod?

I like v1.09 of "Inactive Mail". It works well and really makes a difference on my system keeping folks coming back after 90 days.

Thanks for your help.... :up:

Regards,
Badger

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

My EZbounce.php says:

if (is_member_of($buser['usergroupid'], 5,6,7))

Which are the groups for my Admin, Senior Moderator and Moderator groups.

To clarify what is happening, I'm getting sent to me as the web site administrator, the standard ISP "bounced email". The one that encapsulates the original email sent to the member and its content says:

I can't find anywhere any of the information, links or screens that look like the ones in the mod here, that indicate the mod is working for me.

Thank you for your efforts... :up:

Regards,
Badger

I have both these mods working well and interacting together nicely on my forum.

It may be a function of either your mail server or your email client. Try looking at "Properties" of those emails to get the headers - you may need to open the returned email as an attachment instead or in addition but the main thing is you need to get to the email headers.

If that's not working for you, try setting the option to include the EZ Bounce link in the body (at the bottom) of the email.

[dirtycrow]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

That's most likely due to your usergroup ids not being default. To fix this, you'll need to edit the protected usergroups in your Ezbounce.php file. By default, 5,6,7 is Admins, Supermods, and Mods...

Find this:
if (is_member_of($buser['usergroupid'], 5,6,7))

And replace 5,6,7 with your protected usergroup ids.

that did the trick. thanks :up:

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

I have both these mods working well and interacting together nicely on my forum.

It may be a function of either your mail server or your email client. Try looking at "Properties" of those emails to get the headers - you may need to open the returned email as an attachment instead or in addition but the main thing is you need to get to the email headers.

If that's not working for you, try setting the option to include the EZ Bounce link in the body (at the bottom) of the email.

Well, I wouldn't understand what I'm looking for under my email server, but I did turn ON the option you suggested. Now I'll wait for another "bounce" and see what happens.

Thanks ... :up:

Regards,
Badger

[Antivirus]

try sending an email from your admincp to vcu49834fd@hotmail.com or any totally for certain email that will bounce. That should allow you to test.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

try sending an email from your admincp to vcu49834fd@hotmail.com or any totally for certain email that will bounce. That should allow you to test.

That's a good idea ... :up:

I'll try that later today and let you know...

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

try sending an email from your admincp to vcu49834fd@hotmail.com or any totally for certain email that will bounce. That should allow you to test.

Ok, I changed the method of operation to put the EZ-Bounce link at the bottom of the text of emails being sent out, as opposed to being imbedded elsewhere.

I tried that and sent a test user a "password reminder" email from the AdminCP user area. Of course the email bounced and at the bottom of the original email sent back to me was a link reference from EZ-Bounce. I clicked on that and it took me to a screen in the AdminCP.

I asked it to manage user and it did something, then returned to a "blank" AdminCP user screen with no data filled in. I presume it sent the test user an email and removed his checkmarks for receiving email etc.

This morning, I received a bounce from the v1.09 Inactive email mod, that sends emails out to inactive members. I checked at the bottom of that email and NO EZ-Bounce link appeared, or in the header. I guess there's some kind of incompatibility (even after I used djbaxter's extra hack) as it relates specifically to my system and the two mods.

On its own EZ-bounce works fine with any emails sent out by me manually from the AdminCP.

Thanks

Regards,
Badger