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

[MonkYZ]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

1. Just what did you EXPECT to happen when you installed it?

I was expecting to start emailing un-activated users... and after 10 days of email sending, to delete them.

Originally Posted by djbaxter

2. Why on earth are you upset that 648 registrants who were still unactivated after 10 days (or in some cases probably much longer) are now deleted from your database? You now have a much smaller database uncluttered by useless records.

I am upset that there was no warning, no confirmation asked, no waiting period before deleting, nothing. I just received an email for the deleted users, and that's all. I could've use prune myself for those users, and it would've been the same.

The problem is that i also have vMail plugin installed... and it seems lately to fail a lot for yahoo/hotmail users (they are complaining because are not receiving the confirmation code/link)... I was hoping for Un-Activated User Management to help me with this by sending them emails... Seems like it just deleted them, with no notification... Anyway, now it's too late...

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

The problem is that i also have vMail plugin installed... and it seems lately to fail a lot for yahoo/hotmail users (they are complaining because are not receiving the confirmation code/link)... I was hoping for Un-Activated User Management to help me with this by sending them emails...

If they weren't receiving your previous emails, why would you think they would receive another email from you?

1. Instruct your users to whitelist your forum email address.

2. If they don't receive the activation email, they can request another one or you can send them another one.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

I was expecting to start emailing un-activated users... and after 10 days of email sending, to delete them.

I am upset that there was no warning, no confirmation asked, no waiting period before deleting, nothing. I just received an email for the deleted users, and that's all. I could've use prune myself for those users, and it would've been the same.

The problem is that i also have vMail plugin installed... and it seems lately to fail a lot for yahoo/hotmail users (they are complaining because are not receiving the confirmation code/link)... I was hoping for Un-Activated User Management to help me with this by sending them emails... Seems like it just deleted them, with no notification... Anyway, now it's too late...

I'll grant you it's unfortunate you lost 600+ possible members with no 'warning' except the instructions which to me clearly state what it's going to do... though perhaps another large warning that this WILL delete old users stuck in the queue is in order.

But the fact is 90% or more of those people were never going to complete registration anyway... Also if the mod is installed it will prevent a back-log like that from happening again, which is the main point of this.

[Wajdan]

I want something for vb4 as well Could you please re-write the codeS?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Wajdan

I want something for vb4 as well Could you please re-write the codeS?

This works fine as is for vBulletin 4.01 through 4.07.

[karabaja3]

I've noticed in v3.8.x unactivated users older than 10 days are not deleted. What could be the problem?

[BirdOPrey5]

It's working great for me on 3.8.6... the only changes I made to the cron job file were to change

if ($day > 2 AND $day < 4)

to

if ($day > 2.999 AND $day < 4.0)

and the same for the other hard coded days in the mod, ending with changing...

	elseif ($day > 10)

to

	elseif ($day > 10.0)

just to be consistent.

[karabaja3]

I made this changes.

But in log I still have only:

Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy
Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy
Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy
Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy
Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy
Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy
Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy
Activation Reminder Emails sent to: xy

Unactivated users older than 10 are not deleted.

[karabaja3]

Anyone, please?

[BirdOPrey5]

Like I said, I'm on 3.8.6 and it seems to work fine- so if you're having trouble I would try disabling any other mods you have to see if they are conflicting. You can manually run the scheduled task from the scheduled task manager to test if it works after you disable some mods.