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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[otto]

@Antivirus
Hello!

No, Testaccount is only a member of any primary usergroup.

Any idea?

[Masterix]

Installed and it works fine (vB3.8.2)

Thanks!

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by otto

@Antivirus
Hello!
No, Testaccount is only a member of any primary usergroup.
Any idea?

Please explain your entire problem again in one post.

[stryka]

Umm... how do i know which email this refers to?

Now, all you need to do to process your bounced emails is check your mailbox where the bounced emails are sent,

Is this the email address of webmaster in VBULLETIN OPTIONS?

My webmaster email address accounts is handled by a 3rd party SMTP/POP provider (EVERYONE.net)... but i actually never see my bounce emails there... I do remember seeing bounce info on my dedicated servers' mailquee.. how do i tap into the mailqueue on my server? Or what should i do

[Masterix]

Originally Posted by stryka

Umm... how do i know which email this refers to?



Is this the email address of webmaster in VBULLETIN OPTIONS?

My webmaster email address accounts is handled by a 3rd party SMTP/POP provider (EVERYONE.net)... but i actually never see my bounce emails there... I do remember seeing bounce info on my dedicated servers' mailquee.. how do i tap into the mailqueue on my server? Or what should i do

The MailAccount where the one where your replys goes (Returnpath)

Here a header:

failure notice
Von: (from) MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.tld
An: (to) bouncemail@mydomain.tld

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mydomain.de.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<sunnyboy@someotherdomain.tld>:
does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 <sunnyboy@someotherdomain.tld> Benutzer hat zuviele Mails auf dem Server. / User has too many messages on the server.
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <bouncemail@mydomain.tld>
Received: (qmail 4940 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2009 13:09:44 +0100
Received: from mydomain.tld (HELO mail.mydomain.tld) (80.xx.xxx.xx)
+ by mydomain.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jun 2009 13:09:44 +0100
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2009 12:09:44 +0000
To: Sunnyboy@someotherdomain.tld
From: "bouncemail@mydomain.tld" <bouncemail@mydomain.tld>
Sender: bouncemail@mydomain.tld
Return-Path: bouncemail@mydomain.tld (The Bounced Emails go there / Hierher kommen bouncende Emails zur?ck! Wenn der Admin im ACP eingeloggt ist kann er einfach den in der Mail enthaltenen Link bei "X-EZbouncer:" anklicken und der User wird in die entsprechende Usergruppe verschoben)
Message-ID: <200xxxxxx944.c8cxxxxxacb@www.mydomain.tld>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: vBulletin Mail via PHP
X-EZbouncer: http://www.mydomain.tld/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=7900
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?.....

[GTX2]

Is there any way of making bounced emails to automatically move those users to usergroup X, instead of doing it manually? Its really boring clicking the link on every email header....

thanks

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by GTX2

Is there any way of making bounced emails to automatically move those users to usergroup X, instead of doing it manually? Its really boring clicking the link on every email header....

It's kind of boring reading the same question over and over, too. This one has been asked many times before and has received the same answer: Not all bounces are permanent; some are temporary. Any automatic action would therefore affect both active and inactive accounts. That's why it's done manually.

[GTX2]

yeah but errors like "550 the account does not exist" or "550 Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table" should not be temporary....

[Antivirus]

Automating the process of managing these types of bounces involves email piping, connecting to many different types of mail servers, and a whole slew of other issues which I don't have the need for.

I admit, going through your entire list of bounced emails the first time is a chore, but it's well worth it in the long run. I know this first hand, as our two sites, each have over 25,000 registered users, however afterwards, you never have to do it again.

[SBlueman]

When I click on the link in the email:
[QUOTE]I am getting this error when clicking on the link:

Not Found

The requested URL /forum/admincp/ezbounce.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.