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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[Mrdby]

lol ok...this is confusing..i will just deal with it for now. Thanks everybody!!!

[Antivirus]

Black tiger, so you are talking about the location of the redirect after the "member has been mqanaqged for bounces" message is displayed?

[AyKuT]

Hi antivirus,

At first, I would like to thank you for your great add-on. :up: This is what I was looking for the past 3 days.

Furthermore, I would like to request a feature which will make things easier but not sure if it can be done. Is it possible to develop an email parser like in ticket support systems which parses emails and modify automatically the bouncing members settings to prevent further bouncing emails? I think it will be great for huge forums.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by AyKuT

Is it possible to develop an email parser like in ticket support systems which parses emails and modify automatically the bouncing members settings to prevent further bouncing emails?

Unfortunately, I am extremely unfamiliar with email piping, and therefore unable to add this feature at this time.

[jellybaby]

Has anyone got this to work in Outlook 2007 with the link clickable?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by jellybaby

Has anyone got this to work in Outlook 2007 with the link clickable?

No, see my note to Mrdby previously.....

I use Outlook 2003 and you don't get a clickable link, but you can use it by jury rigging the approach as I mentioned...

Regards,
Badger

[Dragonlair]

We turned off the email address at registration check. The only email mod we have is this one. I even found out how to get at the header with Gmail and turned off the option to put the link in the body of the message. However, it is NOT resetting users back to normal when they activate after getting bounced. It is putting them back in the bad-email usergroup.

BTW - we had one user click on the link in the body and the results were confusing. They could not get past the ACP log in screen but the messages you get looking at their public profile showed them as IN the ACP. It took a bit to figure out how it was done and when we determined they were still seeing the log in screen despite the message, we realized it was not a hacker!

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Dragonlair

We turned off the email address at registration check. The only email mod we have is this one.

Why would you do that? Leave email validation on - at least that way, you discourage some of the spammers. And EZ Bounce works quite well in tandem with email validation, the Activation Reminder add-on, and the Inactive Users add-on. The four together make a pretty good invalid email management system.

[Dragonlair]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Why would you do that? Leave email validation on - at least that way, you discourage some of the spammers. And EZ Bounce works quite well in tandem with email validation, the Activation Reminder add-on, and the Inactive Users add-on. The four together make a pretty good invalid email management system.

We do have email validation on! What I turned off was a mod that was supposed to check the validity of an email address before the registration was accepted. The desire was to catch badly formed emails, obvious typos and such. It didn't seem to work anyway so we turned that off.

We do still have email validation. That's what most of this hack catches as the daemons.

[Black Tiger]

Black tiger, so you are talking about the location of the redirect after the "member has been mqanaqged for bounces" message is displayed?

@Antivirus: Correct! That's what I'm talking about.