Mini Mods - Inactive Users Email Reminders For 3.7.x

Inactive reminder emails. This mod was designed to send out a reminder to inactive members to try and win them back. Earlier versions of this plugin have had great success, and has been installed on 1000's of forums.

This mod is a revised version of my 3.6 modification.
Someone pointed out that I needed to make a new thread in the right forum for this.

***1.2.7 Update***
Fixed the \ in the message.
Changed the way the mails are processed to try and stop duplicates
Made the bounce management monitor ALL outgoing emails
Added more stats
Added bounced email messaage viewing with management options.
***1.2.7 Update***
This update includes built in support for bouncing emails. The script will automatically detect the bounced mail, mark it as bounced so the user is not to be contacted again so as to avoid spam, and then move that user into a seperate usergroup. This plugin is still in it's testing stages, but I have addressed the bugs mentioned previously regarding the emailing side of things.

This is important so keep reading
To install this plugin and take advantage of the bounced email features you are going to need to follow these instructions very carefully. I can not gaurentee that they will work to the letter as this will be based on each persons individual hosting settings.

Step 1: Pre Install
Before you touch this product you need to do the following

• Create an "inactive" usergroup
• Set up a "bounce to" email address
  Pick an email address that you want to use as your bounced email address. Im using "bounce@icora.co.uk". feel free to use whatever you wish.
• Add a email message filter
  This is the hard part. You need to set up a filter that will 'pipe' an email sent to the above email address.
  I am using Cpanel 11 and this is how i have mine set up:
  Rules: 'To' 'Equals' 'bounce@icora.co.uk'
  Actions: 'Pipe to program' with the setting: |/usr/local/bin/php /home/icora/public_html/forum/bounce.php
  This will depend entirely on your settings and structure so you may have to do a little research. It would be very helfull if people who have to use diferent configurations would post them on here.
• Go into vBulletin options, and find the options for 'Emails'. there is a setting asking you if you want to use '-f'. set this to yes.
• While still inn the email options set the 'Bounce Email Address' to your above address.

Step 2: Install
Remove all previous trace of this modification, and upload all the files in the "upload" folder to your base directory of the server.
Go into your product management section and add a new product. upload the XML file with overwrite selected.
Refresh your admin CP to load the new menu items. Just under the "users" group you will find an "Inactive Reminders" group. open that up and click on settings.
Play with these settings and options to suit for the most part. when you come down to the bounce settings you MUST use the same email address as the one you created above.
Set to active and save.

I must re-iterate that this version has not been widely tested, but the simulations i have ran have worked. I look forward to your feedback!


Features:

• Select the period of time before a user is considered inactive.
• Select how many emails to send to each inactive user per inactivity period
• Choose weather inactivity is based on members "Last Post" or their "Last Visit"
• Specify how often followup emails are sent
• Specify alternative emails to send to reduce repetition
• Keep a log of all inactive users contacted

Planned Updates:

• More detail in reports
• ...such as
• Which useres returned
• Effectivness stats
• Email validity

**1.2.1 Update***
Added more detail to the reports section. You can now see the email address, and quickly indicate which emails were invalid. You can link directly to that user to edit as you wish.
I have fixed some errors which have been crashing people's database. Please post any problems if you can.

**1.2.3 Update***
Fixed several problems with escaping strings
Stopped database errors locking up site
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**1.2.4 Update***
Added a "From Email" so you can specify your own email address to send the reminders from.
Fixed potential bug for people who do not use the mail queue.

Anyone having problems with sending emails out too fast, and multiple emails being sent need to consider changing their email settings in vbulletin options.
People with emails going out too fast - edit Number of Emails to Send Per Batch to a lower amount
People with multiple emails sending - edit Use Mailqueue System to "Yes, with locking"
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**1.2.5 Update***
Added more stats in the reports page, also added a "Send test email" option so users can test the functionality of the mod
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**1.2.6 Update***
Identical to 1.2.5, however EzBounce support added.
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**Opps Update***
Sorry i somehow managed to not include the file in the zip. My bad.
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[i156]

I've got around 3500 members. I just put the report into excel and sorted by email and I do notice a lot of people that got multiples. But some are like two or three and then some have gotten like 10-20 of them.

The current stats shows 0 for everything.

[C Braithwaite]

This multiple emails issue is really annoying me.

I have uploaded the latest version, but in DEBUG MODE (ie, it doesnt send out emails, but does everything else). This file will generate a log file with lots of information for me to have a look at.
Can the people that are having problems with multiple emails being sent out, download, uninstall the old one and install this version.
just set yor settings as normal, and send me a PM to let me know you have installed it, and the URL of your forum.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by C Braithwaite

This multiple emails issue is really annoying me.

I have uploaded the latest version, but in DEBUG MODE (ie, it doesnt send out emails, but does everything else). This file will generate a log file with lots of information for me to have a look at.
Can the people that are having problems with multiple emails being sent out, download, uninstall the old one and install this version.
just set yor settings as normal, and send me a PM to let me know you have installed it, and the URL of your forum.

Per my PM, I'm getting a database error with the debug version installed, so I've since disabled it.

Check my PM for the particulars.

Peace,
Gene

[C Braithwaite]

Originally Posted by genesteinberg

Per my PM, I'm getting a database error with the debug version installed, so I've since disabled it.

Check my PM for the particulars.

Peace,
Gene

Cheers - the directory neds to be writable for me to be able to output a log file. are you able to do this?

[yahoooh]

i disable it and wait for fix this big error :

when your hack is enabled

the photopost classifieds will give intrnal server error 500 for any user visit the classifieds
but if he is not logged and visit the classifieds as unregistered user ,the classifieds works

i disable the product and wait for the fix

thanks

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by C Braithwaite

This multiple emails issue is really annoying me.

I have uploaded the latest version, but in DEBUG MODE (ie, it doesnt send out emails, but does everything else). This file will generate a log file with lots of information for me to have a look at.
Can the people that are having problems with multiple emails being sent out, download, uninstall the old one and install this version.
just set yor settings as normal, and send me a PM to let me know you have installed it, and the URL of your forum.

I got it working now.

First problem: Text encoding is still off.

So:

Dear Test User

We miss you. Our website is not the same without you. Come back and join in the fun?

Kindest Regards The Team Attack of the Rockoids Forums <\"http://www.rockoids.com\">

This is a fresh install, since I deleted the older version, including the product, before installing the new one.

Peace,
Gene

[Brandon Sheley]

another update and nothing changed
I swear I have to click that "update" tag every other day, to make it just show installed..

[C Braithwaite]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

i disable it and wait for fix this big error :

when your hack is enabled

the photopost classifieds will give intrnal server error 500 for any user visit the classifieds
but if he is not logged and visit the classifieds as unregistered user ,the classifieds works

i disable the product and wait for the fix

thanks

what is the server log saying?

[C Braithwaite]

Originally Posted by genesteinberg

I got it working now.

First problem: Text encoding is still off.

So:



This is a fresh install, since I deleted the older version, including the product, before installing the new one.

Peace,
Gene

Looking at the log file that is generated, it doesn't look like it's sending to multiple users...

when you say the text encoding, do you mean when you send from the admin CP? i have not yet updated that code, however, the emails that are sent to users is fixed. i will do the admin test email next.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by C Braithwaite

Looking at the log file that is generated, it doesn't look like it's sending to multiple users...

when you say the text encoding, do you mean when you send from the admin CP? i have not yet updated that code, however, the emails that are sent to users is fixed. i will do the admin test email next.

Yes, a test email.

The other problem is that it won't save the Bounced usergroup I created for it. It moves to a different usergroup, say two or three down.

Peace,
Gene