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 MikeWarner

Can't do that as I'm using paid subscriptions and have problems enough with usergroups updating correctly once exiry occurs.

You could create a secondary usergroup for the bouncing members that way subscription usergroups aren't affected (i think - i never use subscriptions).

Originally Posted by ludachris

Hey guys, is there any settings that would allow this hack to make the user account changes without having to click on the link in the email header? The reason I ask is because I have a member who got moved to the specified usergroup and I didn't move them. I was wondering if it was done by this hack?

No, that's not how this hack works. Any Administrator with "admin settings" permission must manually click on the link in the email's header, that's the only way anything is changed by this hack.

[hydn]

EXACTLY WHAT I NEED. Will this work on 3.5.8?

Thanks.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by hydn

EXACTLY WHAT I NEED. Will this work on 3.5.8?
Thanks.

Aside from the xml product being formatted for 3.6.x, i don't see why not, however I haven't tested it with 3.5 series since all my boards are now running 3.6.x

[Antivirus]

ok, seems to work with 3.6.5

[Black Tiger]

Oh I loooove this one thanks!

Suggestion: Can you implement an option for users which register with a fake email adres (which will bounce too), to get their accounts deleted by a click?

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Can you implement an option for users which register with a fake email adres (which will bounce too), to get their accounts deleted by a click?

I don't understand, can't you just turn on "Verify Email address in Registration" option in the AdminCP to prevent users with bogus email addresses from creating accounts to begin with?

[Smoothie]

Installed and working with 3.6.5

[Black Tiger]

I don't understand, can't you just turn on "Verify Email address in Registration" option in the AdminCP to prevent users with bogus email addresses from creating accounts to begin with?

Which part don't you understand? It's the same as other bounced emails.
This option you mention is turned on. The "verify email address in registration" does nothing else then send you an activation email als registering user.

An example:
Suppose you register at my forums and you make a typo in your email adres or put in a fake email adres like idont@wantmail.com, then a verification email is send to that address.
Since the address does not exists, the email get's bounced as being undeliverable.

It's just the same as with birthday email's or thread subscribtions, emails are getting bounced.

Depending on the bounce reason stated in the bounced mail, I can then choose to have users account adjusted, which your hack does, or get users account deleted which was my suggestion.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Suppose you register at my forums and you make a typo in your email adres or put in a fake email adres like idont@wantmail.com, then a verification email is send to that address.
Since the address does not exists, the email get's bounced as being undeliverable.

It's just the same as with birthday email's or thread subscribtions, emails are getting bounced.

Depending on the bounce reason stated in the bounced mail, I can then choose to have users account adjusted, which your hack does, or get users account deleted which was my suggestion.

Use the option to move the members into a special user group (e.g., "Inactive"). You can then periodically prune that group.

I wouldn't want to see accounts deleted in any automatic or easily mis-clicked way. The current options are much safer.

[Black Tiger]

I could make a usergroup "bademail" or something, but when I click the link to move them, I have get through the htacces and have to login to the forum anyway for the move-link to work.
In that case the extra usergroup has no sense because since I'm logged in, I can also delete them manual. By a link this was just a bit easyer to do, don't have to search the user.

But you have a point there, that it's maybe better not to have accounts deleted in easy clicks because you can mistake and mis-click.
I hadn't thought of that, thanks.