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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[andrew67]

Firstly , thanks for a great product Antivirus. I run a 60,000+ member site and intend to start dealing with active members with dud email addresses.

I have installed and it works fine...except for one problem. I cannot get a link to appear on either setting , just a http text line which I have to manually cut and paste.

I am using Windows Vista and the Windows Mail program that comes with it. I have looked through all the settings , but cant find anything that is likely to be making it happen ? Anyone have any ideas ? Cutting and pasting is simply too much work on a forum the size of mine.

Thanks

[andrew67]

* When member updates & confirms their new email, they are returned to original usergroup.

This isnt actually the case. I have " Premium Members " who are paid members who are in a custom " Premium Member " category.. Those without a valid email address are sent to Registered User after they fix the email problem.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by andrew67

I have installed and it works fine...except for one problem. I cannot get a link to appear on either setting , just a http text line which I have to manually cut and paste.

I have no experience with Windows Vista's mail client, but there should be a setting somewhere which allows parsing the link in your client. The only thing you can try is to modify the way the ezbounce link is created:

in the plugin for hook location: MAIL_SEND, find:

PHP Code:

if (!$vbulletin->options['ezb_showezbouncelink'])
{
    // if turned off, put bounce url into header (default option)
    $headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bounceurl . $delimiter;
    /* replace above line with following line if the url in bouncing email header is not displaying as a link
    $headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bouncestring . $delimiter; 
    */
}
else
{
    // if turned on, construct bounce code & place in email message body
    $bouncecode    = construct_phrase($vbphrase['anti_bounce_message'], $bounceurl); 
    /* replace above line with following line if the url in bouncing email body is not displaying as a link
    $bouncecode    = construct_phrase($vbphrase['anti_bounce_message'], $bouncestring); 
    */
    $message .= $bouncecode;
} 


and replace it with:

PHP Code:

if (!$vbulletin->options['ezb_showezbouncelink'])
{
    // if turned off, put bounce url into header (default option)
    $headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bouncestring . $delimiter; 
}
else
{
    // if turned on, construct bounce code & place in email message body
    $bouncecode    = construct_phrase($vbphrase['anti_bounce_message'], $bouncestring); 
    $message .= $bouncecode;
} 


Originally Posted by andrew67

This isnt actually the case. I have " Premium Members " who are paid members who are in a custom " Premium Member " category.. Those without a valid email address are sent to Registered User after they fix the email problem.

hmm... you're right about that. I see why it's happening and it's now fixed and working correctly. version 1.7 is now most current version of this modification. Please update and thasnks for bringing it to my attention.

[andrew67]

Excellent , I will update it today , thanks for the very prompt attention to this. It saves me having to move them back to the Premium group.

[Antivirus]

no problem. did the file edit above for the mail_send plugin work for your other problem?

[andrew67]

The file edit didnt work unfortunately and a search of all Windows Mail settings hasnt found anything that could be responsible.

I might set up a seperate email account for the bounced mail and run it from a known working email client as manually cutting and pasting isnt an option on a board that big.

Other than that , its working great and I intend to keep using it daily to weed out all the dead accounts. The daily birthday mailout produces plenty of emails as well to dead accounts.

Thanks again

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by andrew67

The file edit didnt work unfortunately and a search of all Windows Mail settings hasnt found anything that could be responsible.

hmm, if the edit didn't make any difference, then it's most certainly due to the email client. If you figure it out, please post the settings you need to change here in this thread, in the event any other admins are using the same email client, they'll be able to fix for themselves too. Otherwise, glad the mod's working out for you.

[andrew67]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

hmm, if the edit didn't make any difference, then it's most certainly due to the email client. If you figure it out, please post the settings you need to change here in this thread, in the event any other admins are using the same email client, they'll be able to fix for themselves too. Otherwise, glad the mod's working out for you.

I have changed to Mozilla Thunderbird and it works fine. I still prefer Windows Mail , but have given up. If anyone works out if it can be done , please say so.

[andrew67]

One other thing that could be of benefit is that the users setting also be changed to receive a popup box alerting them to a PM. That way they are guaranteed to see the PM alerting them to the changes to their account.

[Antivirus]

thats a good idea, ill look into it