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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[globalinsites]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

I can't be sure but it sounds like these are bounces caused by someone who cancelled their email address with yahoo and never updated their email on your site.

No, I received e-mail from the e-mail address(es) after I received the delivery error e-mail(s)

[kartik786]

will this work on vb 3.6.4 !?

[Subah]

I do everything but what should i do to see this hack ?
i try to go to: http://www.+++.***/forum/admincp/ezbounce.php , but i got database error !!

[htscpl]

Originally Posted by globalinsites

I noticed that I've been receiving delivery error e-mails with this error:

'554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account'

but I've also been receiving some e-mails from the e-mail addresses of users who don't have a yahoo.com account according to the delivery errors

So basically I don't know if I should manage the users of which I receive 554 delivery errors or not. Obviously they (or at least part of them, as I've noticed) do have a yahoo.com otherwise they couldn't have e-mailed me.

Has anyone else noticed this? I'm not sure how to deal with this.

These 554 delivery errors are emails that were blocked as spam by either the user or Yahoo. I've been dealing with an increasing number of these as a hacker stole one of my domains email addresses. Even though we only send notices to members who have subscribed several IPs have blocked us resulting in a large number of bounced emails with the 554 error. Most are still valid email addresses that won't accept our mail. I have opted to manage mine as the use will see the PM and add our good addresses to their address book.

[Subah]

Originally Posted by Subah

I do everything but what should i do to see this hack ?
i try to go to: http://www.+++.***/forum/admincp/ezbounce.php , but i got database error !!

Any body can help me to start using this modifications ?

[Black Tiger]

@Antivirus: Could my problem be fixed by re-installing the hack?
The problem was that all seemd to work correctly, except that users would not be put back to their original usergroup after changing their email adress.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

@Antivirus: Could my problem be fixed by re-installing the hack? The problem was that all seemd to work correctly, except that users would not be put back to their original usergroup after changing their email adress.

you could give that a try, but use overwrite option, dont uninstaaa furst as doing so would wipe out your existing ezbounced members original usergroupids, etc...

Originally Posted by Subah

I do everything but what should i do to see this hack ?
i try to go to: http://www.+++.***/forum/admincp/ezbounce.php , but i got database error !!

you are supposed to access the script from bounced emails, you cant just type in ezbounce script.

[Davey-UK]

When/if will this be updated to work with 3.7??

[franzjuve]

Thanks for this hack , installed

[Argyle]

Very nice! I'm sorry I never noticed this before. I get a lot of bounces from birthday messages from users who haven't been around for a while and the like.

I don't know if this has already been suggested (too many pages to read!), but it'd be sweet to be able to specify an alternate sender user in the options page, instead of automatically defaulting to the admin account that you use to log in after clicking on the link. No biggie as I hard-coded my non-admin "bot user" in as the sender, but yeah...