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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[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by goddess_dix

Yahoo is notorious for their soft bounce issues...

Yeah, the deferred bounces are a major pain in the ass - as far as I know, there's not much we can do about it unfortunately.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

If the member doesn't have an invalid email, then any emails sent to that member fromthe forums will bounce. When you click on the link in the bounced email's header, the member will be "managed" for bouncing (meaning different things depending upon your settings for this mod).



Array merge errors were fixed quite some time ago, so not sure why you're getting that error. Is the user you are clicking the link for in your database? Is there a user with that specific userid? What version of vbulletin are you using? Also - you're using an older version of this mod, please upgrade to version 1.10.

You were right

I didn't notice i was on 1.6.1 and just upgraded to php5

Thanks!

[raagaswaram]

is it possible to get the user automatically moved to the different user group without we as an admin going through each bounced mail and clicking on the linke *pain in the ass
or is it possible to get like all the bounced usernames and put it on a page so we can click on all at time instead of going one by one

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by raagaswaram

is it possible to get the user automatically moved to the different user group without we as an admin going through each bounced mail and clicking on the linke *pain in the ass or is it possible to get like all the bounced usernames and put it on a page so we can click on all at time instead of going one by one

I imagine it's possible, but it's not on my to-do list (sorry).

[Mrdby]

3.7.0 release?

[goddess_dix]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

3.7.0 release?

i'm using the current version with 3.7 and am having no difficulties.

[Devices]

Is there any chance this could be adapted to read a list of emails instead of the manual link?

My email server only gives me a bounce report that does not include the original email so i will never see the link.

I use an email bounce handler software that will give me a list of bounced emails. If i could use that list to perform the actions your scipt performs that would be great.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Devices

I use an email bounce handler software that will give me a list of bounced emails. If i could use that list to perform the actions your scipt performs that would be great.

Sorry, but something like that is beyond the scope of this mod.

[Devices]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Sorry, but something like that is beyond the scope of this mod.

Ok thanks anyway

[Devices]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Sorry, but something like that is beyond the scope of this mod.

I found a way, well sort of. I just modified the script slightly to accept the users email in the url instead of the users id. Then I use a macro to cut and paste each email from my bounced list to the url.

A little long winded but works great for automating the process of handling large amounts of bounces and I can simply manually copy and paste the odd bounced email address I get in between mass mailings.