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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[MrD]

Hi,
Any News about a working vb4.1.x Version?
Maybe alfa1 Version ?

[ShackMaster]

I am still curious about the bug I mentioned above.

[nlwin]

Hi There, thanks for this wonderful add-on. I would like to know whether this will be compatible with vB3.8.7. Thanks again.

[TalkVirginia]

I'm also working on adding this functionality to my versions of Inactive User Reminder Email for vb3.8.x and vb4.x

[ShackMaster]

Great! Maybe you can address the issues that this mod has.

[eJM]

I'm using this on 3.8.6 PL1. I do not use email confirmation - users do not have to wait for an email to click a link that confirms their email. I do, however, have a "Broke Email" user group that I have used the ID for in this mod's configuration. I've tested this on 2 separate accounts I have access to and the mod does change the user to the proper user group when I click the EZ Bounce link in the bounced email.

The problem I am having is once the user changes to a good email and clicks the submit button, they do not get switched back to the previous user group.

Is this a problem with my version of vBulletin? Or is there something I can modify in the script?

Thanks for any help with this.

Jim

[Alfa1]

That should not happen on 3.8.6. Do you use the vmail addon?

[eJM]

No, I don't use vmail. The mods I do use are:

Bills PayPal Donate
Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
Gravity Insights
Notification: Group Membership requests
passiveVid
Prevent bumping old Threads
Prevent Spam
Rotating Banner System
Security Token Notification
vBadvanced CMPS
vBadvanced Dynamics
vBSEO
vBSEO :: Sitemap Generator

I haven't seen any of those reported as a problem with this mod.

Jim

[Alfa1]

What does the prevent spam mod do?

[eJM]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

What does the prevent spam mod do?

Here it is: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131568

It only checks new posts for specific words, which may cause the post to go into moderation. It works great and has caught a lot of bad posts.

I spent a lot of today trying to make EZ Bounce work, with no luck. It continues to work up to the point that the member changes to a new, good email address. The script does not revert the member back to the original usergroup. Or is that one of those tasks that run on a certain time schedule? I didn't notice anything like that in the PHP file though.

This could be a great mod for me because I am very strict about users having valid emails. I have been manually moving them to a usergroup with limited features and sending a PM, as well as creating a Notice that they can't get rid of until they notify me of the email change. It's a PITA for them and me.

Thanks for trying to help with this. I hope we can get it fixed.

Jim
PS: I have also removed (uninstalled) the following mods - I didn't use them much anyway:

Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
Gravity Insights
Notification: Group Membership requests