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]

< REMOVED >

lol ok man look. The problem i'm having is that when emails aren't working for users or canceled..I don't get the ez bounce email. I'm not sure..It was working on previous versions..But now its not. Thanks in advance.lol

[testebr]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Not at this time. I have requested the same.

And will we see this feature in a future version?

[Mrdby]

thanks for the infractions DAVID.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

thanks for the infractions DAVID.

Please take personal messages to PM, no need to post them in a modification thread.

[Mrdby]

sure..i did and he ran to whine to the admin.

[Alfa1]

Can we stop the BS and return to discussing EZbounced email management?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

sure..i did and he ran to whine to the admin.

1. no you didn't

2. I didn't whine to anyone - the moderators just did what they are supposed to do and they don't need input from you or me to do that

3. you obviously still haven't learned your lesson

4. please get back on topic

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by testebr

I have 10k of bouced emails. Too many hard to review each manually. Any way to do this automatically?

I don't currently plan on integrating any kind of email piping methods into this script - it would be way too involved for me to code and probably exceeds my coding abilities at the present time. It might be difficult the first time around, but you do it once, and you're golden forever after.

Perfect example, is our site's forums: www.eclipserecords.com/forum/

We currently have around 24,000 registered members, and after installing this mod, sending a mass email, we received a few thousand bounces - it was a bit tedious managing all of them however it's worth the time it takes, because not only are we no longer receiving all those bounced emails every time we shoot out a mass email, but mail from our site is now less likely to end up in recipients junk folders because the ISPs receiving the email aren't receiving a ton of emails for dead email addresses anymore.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

We currently have around 24,000 registered members, and after installing this mod, sending a mass email, we received a few thousand bounces - it was a bit tedious managing all of them however it's worth the time it takes, because not only are we no longer receiving all those bounced emails every time we shoot out a mass email, but mail from our site is now less likely to end up in recipients junk folders because the ISPs receiving the email aren't receiving a ton of emails for dead email addresses anymore.

Exactly. And on successive mail-outs, I typically get 1-2 or up to a maxium of maybe 5-6 bounced emails, so it's well worth that initial effort.

[AScherff]

Originally Posted by cd1986

Receiving this error when i try to manually run the Activation Reminder Cron:
...

I figured out, that after installing these mod, two of cron-jobs (Birthday and Activation Reminder) are not run and have these error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in ..../includes/class_mail.php(266) : eval()'d code on line 4

code of line is

PHP Code:

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('mail_send')) ? eval($hook) : false; 


Error happens only if a mail must send out.

If i deactivate the mod, all works fine.

any idea?

Thanks
Alfred