Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Un-Activated User Management 3.1

this was a fantastic vb2 hack and was made with blood, sweat and tears by Amy, she deserves all the credit for doing a fantastic job and then giving me permission to release this. If you install this you should show your gratitude in her direction as without her it wouldn't have been possible.


if you got a big board you can't live without this, it stops the crap from piling up.

anything messes up, i can't take responsibility i'm afraid so back up before you try it.

Originally Posted by AmyKhar

This hack will email a warning to members who have not activated their account and then delete them. It can run via cron, and is a pretty darn easy hack to install.

Features:
1. Emails users after 3 days and reminds them to activate their accounts.

2. Emails users after 5 days and lets them know their account will be deleted if they do not activate.

3. Emails users after 8 days with a final warning.

4. Deletes un-activated members after 10 days.

It still does exactly the same but this time for vb3

oh yeah, it emails you to tell you who was deleted, emailed so you're always informed.


and now like the days of our youth where everything was free and our mum would have dinner on the table for us, you're done.

v2.x Contributors Include: Boofo, psico, sv1cec and jlurken
v3.x Contributors Include: Paul M

UPDATED: now 3.6 compliant.

Arabic version thanks to Almotmaiz.Net

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

If they haven't activated their memberships, they won't be able to read their PMs. That's why email is used.

I see. It would be good to to override that. The EZbounced email hack overrides this, so it must be possible to add this feature. I think this would be very effective in helping with unactivated user management.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I request a PM feature, which informs unactivated members that a activation email has been sent to their email account, but their account has not been activated yet and tells them to check their spam filters. The majority of inactivated users are caused by spam filters.

I'd guess that the majority of non-activated users for many forums, including mine, are invalid email addresses. In the "tech support" section, we have a post explaining how to avoid filters using the address book or whitelist.

Originally Posted by djbaxter

If they haven't activated their memberships, they won't be able to read their PMs. That's why email is used.

I wouldn't give unactivated members access to PMs. That's just begging for PM spam, especially since the spammer doesn't even have to provide a valid email address in order to be able to access the forum members.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I see. It would be good to to override that. The EZbounced email hack overrides this, so it must be possible to add this feature. I think this would be very effective in helping with unactivated user management.

Overiride what? The Ez Bounce add-on doesn't send PMs.

[Alfa1]

Yes, it does. See here.

Originally Posted by Antivirus

PM is sent to Member notifying them of bounced email & asking them to update email address

[djbaxter]

Sorry, you're correct. What I meant to say was that it doesn't override access to PM permissions. And for the reasons stated above, I wouldn't want to give non-activated members access to the PM system.

The fact that EZ Bounce sends that PM is actually a bit annoying. If the member's registration email address is invalid, and the member is close to the limit for stored PMs or has PM email notification turned on, EZ Bounce generates 2 or 3 bounced emails instead of just the original. It's a little like the problem of autoreplies, where you get emails bouncing all over accomplishing nothing useful.

[Alfa1]

Isn't it possible to automatically send the member a PM, without giving further access to the PM system? I think this is what EZ bounce does as well.

Ez bounce turns all email notification off, so sending out more emails is no issue.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Isn't it possible to automatically send the member a PM, without giving further access to the PM system? I think this is what EZ bounce does as well.

Not as far as I know, no.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Ez bounce turns all email notification off, so sending out more emails is no issue.

I definitely still get bounce-backs regarding the "PM full" or "PM almost full" emails so it is an issue.

And I know I used to get additional bounce-backs for notifications - I suppose that may have been in an earlier version.

But that said, this is the Un-Activated User Management Thread. Perhaps further discussion about EZ Bounce should continue in that thread.

[xandizitxu]

I want to delete all my users in 20 days if they don't login, this mod does this, I quite didn't understand if it doest it. Sorry my english sux!

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by xandizitxu

I want to delete all my users in 20 days if they don't login, this mod does this, I quite didn't understand if it doest it. Sorry my english sux!

You'd need to modify the code a bit for 20 days.

The way it works now is it sends reminder emails at 3, 5, and 8 days after registration. After that, if the member hasn't validated the registration by 10 days, he or she is deleted.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

But that said, this is the Un-Activated User Management Thread. Perhaps further discussion about EZ Bounce should continue in that thread.

Excuse me DJBaxter, I did not intent to focus the discussion on EZBounce. I only mentioned specific functions to illustrate functional possibilities for your hack, not in order to compare. Un-Activated User Management is something different and should not be compared.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Excuse me DJBaxter, I did not intent to focus the discussion on EZBounce. I only mentioned it to discuss suggestions for your software.

Actually, this is sabert00the's add-on, not mine, so it would be up to him.

That said, I wouldn't want a PM solution for this add-on personally. If it were added as an extra option (email and/or PM), I suppose that would work because I'd just turn off the option for PMs.