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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[bela-meaad]

Hello

when i install tha mod
the bounced emails stop coming to my email
but when i stop the product
i start getting the bounced emails

Any idea?

Thanks

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I handle bounced email daily with Anti-Virus his awesome mod. And after a mass mailout, I handle some of them. But 4.000 emails is waaay too much to process.

So do 100 at a time, or 50. Then every time you do a mailout, you'll have that many fewer bounced emails. And eventually you'll get 'em all.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I handle bounced email daily with Anti-Virus his awesome mod. And after a mass mailout, I handle some of them. But 4.000 emails is waaay too much to process.

It is a lot of work, but you only have to do the work one time, then never again, providing you only send emails to users choosing to receive admin emails on a going-forward basis.

Originally Posted by bela-meaad

when i install tha mod the bounced emails stop coming to my email but when i stop the product i start getting the bounced emails. Any idea?

The product has nothing to do with when/how bounced email is recieved by you, only with how email is sent (by adding the ezbounce header to all outgoing emails).

[scotsmist]

Hi antivirus, scotsmist from vbportal.com here. Thank you for providing this addon.

I am seeing problems with URLS showing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in them

Here is an example from an email:

Webmaster http://www.testdomain.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~
EZ Bounce Management:


There's another problem with URLs that include anything with an & sign. For example the activation email

To stop receiving this email, please visit this url:
http://www.testdomain.com/forums/register.php?do=deleteactivation&u=5&
i=26078739~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EZ Bounce Management:

(I split that into two lines due to it breaking the 800 pixel wide screen here)

Sometimes the URL is unreadable with strange characters appearing. It looks like the path has been urlencoded where certain characters are appearing as hexadecimal values.

Any help appreciated.

edit: just to add

here's another example email sent from the Admin CP Email Manager to myself

here is the test bounce message~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=0D
EZ Bounce Management: =0D
=0D
If this email has bounced, visit the following URL for bounce management:=
=0D
http://www.testdomain.com/forums/admincp/ezbounce.php?u=3D6=0D
=0D

that's what it looks like in the email source.

edit: to change URLs. The staff edited my post and made the fictitious URLs into real clickable ones which is pointless as they aren't real.

[s0lidgr0und]

I don't really send out many member emails, but it sounds like a great idea.

Thank you.

[baby41]

Originally Posted by scotsmist

Hi antivirus, scotsmist from vbportal.com here. Thank you for providing this addon.

I am seeing problems with URLS showing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in them

Here is an example from an email:

Webmaster http://www.testdomain.com~~~~~~~~~~~...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EZ Bounce Management:


There's another problem with URLs that include anything with an & sign. For example the activation email

To stop receiving this email, please visit this url:
http://www.testdomain.com/forums/reg...ctivation&u=5&
i=26078739~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EZ Bounce Management:

(I split that into two lines due to it breaking the 800 pixel wide screen here)

Sometimes the URL is unreadable with strange characters appearing. It looks like the path has been urlencoded where certain characters are appearing as hexadecimal values.

Any help appreciated.

edit: just to add

here's another example email sent from the Admin CP Email Manager to myself

here is the test bounce message~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=0D
EZ Bounce Management: =0D
=0D
If this email has bounced, visit the following URL for bounce management:=
=0D
http://www.testdomain.com/forums/adm...e.php?u=3D6=0D
=0D

that's what it looks like in the email source.

edit: to change URLs. The staff edited my post and made the fictitious URLs into real clickable ones which is pointless as they aren't real.

I'm having same problem with forum links,can we change that links and where,regards.

[Antivirus]

Scotsmist & Baby41,
I have no idea why you're experiencing that issue. Perhaps it's a conflict with other hacks you have installed, but I don't know. That is not how this modification functions on a clean install...

The only insight I can offer regarding your issue is that you may have modified the phrase "anti_bounce_message"? Have you turned off all other mods and sent an email to a false address then looked at the message?

[scotsmist]

Hi Antivirus, it is possibly caused by other hacks installed. All email from the board is affected with this extra ~~~~~~~~~~ in the message, getting tagged to a link thus making it un-clickable.

Edit: After adding $delimiter prior to the message when the bounce link is included with the email, the links appear to be fixed now.

[Antivirus]

Scotsmist, glad to see you were able to solve the peoblem!

[Mrdby]

Smh