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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[jluerken]

Hi Antivirus,

I am using your hack and I am very satisfied but I have a question.
I am getting all bounce messages at the moment and click on the link to move the user from one group to another.
This is working very good.

You wrote in your feature list
"(if turned on) When member updates & confirms their new email, they are returned to original usergroup."

How can this be done?
Currently I see no way for a user to enter a new mail, confirm it and be returned into his old groups.

I had this yesterday where a user wrote me an email that he can't post in the board. I check with this account data and did not find any option to change this back.

Can you please assist?

[Dragonlair]

jluerken,

That's the problem I've been finding as well. All I can do is manually change the usergroup back. However, it's still tagged as bounced so if the new email address has a problem, I cannot bounce them. I just get a blank screen. At least the user has normal access in the time being.

[Mrdby]

mines not working

[Antivirus]

i'm pretty sure that if you're having any issues with this mod, it's a conflice with other mods you have installed. This works just fine on a clean install, and many other users are not finding any issues with this.

[Mrdby]

should i uninstall and install? should I post a list of my mods?

[PoetJA-1975]

Great modification = Works perfectly
Thanx for the sharing

Jacquii.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

should i uninstall and install? should I post a list of my mods?

I can't really get into debugging this to work with every possible mod out there.

I just posted an update (version 1.9) though which might make this compatible with more mods out there, hopefully it will work for the few peoplewho are having a problem with it.

[Alfa1]

Thanks for the update! I was having the same problems, but I took them for granted since the pro's of this hack far outweigh those small problems. Now that they are fixed it's even better.

[Mrdby]

THANKS!!! Updated!!! Let me run a test!!

[Mrdby]

I have the hack enabled..but...i know for a fact one of my members need a new email address..when emailing him from my acp.. it just gives me this.

The original message was received at Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:58:46 -0500 (CDT) from localhost [******.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <*****@comcast.net>
(reason: 550 [SUSPEND] The mailbox is currently unavailable - please contact correspondent directly.)

----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to gateway-s.comcast.net.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 [SUSPEND] The mailbox is currently unavailable - please contact correspondent directly.
550 5.1.1 <*****@comcast.net>... User unknown <<< 503 need RCPT command [data]

I get no bounced email link nor is he placed in users waiting email confirmation. I'm not sure..maybe you can look into it for me please? Or should I post all the mods I have that might be conflicting with it?