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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[djbaxter]

Since installing the latest update, clicking on the link in bounced emails no longer loads the admin CP page - just a blank page.

It does correctly reset the "Receive admin emails", though.

Suggestions?

[Antivirus]

Did you uninstall the earlier version before installing the latest?
Did you set the path to your admincp directory in your settings group for this mod?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Did you uninstall the earlier version before installing the latest?

No. I used "overwrite". However, I'll try that and see what happens.

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Did you set the path to your admincp directory in your settings group for this mod?

Yes. The setting is correct.

[djbaxter]

Uninstalled and reinstalled and it's working again. Thanks!

[Antivirus]

great. i'll be releasing the next version in an hour or so...

[Nathan2006]

Thank you for the update

I have just tested it but after testing:

When received bounce email clicked the link and went to admincp and it moved the member to the required user group.

Then logged in to that users account and added a new email. received message saying you are being moved but then it did not move me back to the original user group

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Nathan2006

Then logged in to that users account and added a new email. received message saying you are being moved but then it did not move me back to the original user group

It sounds like you might have just imported the product xml WITHOUT uninstalling the previous version. It's absolutely necessary that you first uninstall any previous version, then install the new v1.3 product.

[Nathan2006]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

It sounds like you might have just imported the product xml WITHOUT uninstalling the previous version. It's absolutely necessary that you first uninstall any previous version, then install the new v1.3 product.

Nope I had already read this above before I installed

VERSIONS / CHANGELOG:
#> 1.3 - released on 2/15/2007:
Completely rewritten. You MUST uninstall any previous version of this mod before installing this new version
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

Then I Uninstalled it, deleted the file from the server and added the new one and reinstalled.

Don't know what is wrong

I will try installing it again later and see if that helps but I definitely removed it 1st

[Antivirus]

did you process the bounce before or after the update?

What are your settings for this mod in admincp?

[DJ XtAzY]

i was testing this hack to see if the member will move back to the original group. So this is what i did. I created another usergroup. Say Invalid Group with uid 20 for instance. I enabled the admin option to put bounced users to uid 20. I then created a test user for Registered Users (uid 2) group with a fake email. I later received a bounced message with the link to move that test user into the Invalid Group. I checked the database to see if it holds the old uid 2 and it did. So then i logined as the test user and changed it to a real email. Now vb automatically move the usergroup to the User Awaiting Email Confirmation group (uid 3) because it needs to be activated. When i checked the database, it lost the original uid and it became 0. So when i activated the email, vb puts back the user to the Invalid Group (uid 20). Im not sure but i think this is a bug. Else this feature would be nonfunctional. It suppose to put back to registered users.