Un-Activated User Management

although i know this works manually, it's untested via cron

Originally Posted by AmyKhar

This hack will email a warning to members who have not activated their account and then delete them. It can run via cron, and is a pretty darn easy hack to install.

Features:
1. Emails users after 3 days and reminds them to activate their accounts.


2. Emails users after 5 days and lets them know their account will be deleted if they do not activate.

3. Emails users after 8 days with a final warning.

4. Deletes un-activated members after 10 days.

it still does exactly the same but this time for vb3

oh yeah, it emails you to tell you who was deleted, emailed so you're always informed.

if you got a big board you can't live without this, it stops the crap from piling up.

anything messes up, i can't take responsibility i'm afraid so back up before you try it.

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Add-On:
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if you like your templates in your admin cp neat then do this:
in "includes/adminfunctions_template.php" find

PHP Code:

    'subscription' => $vbphrase['group_paid_subscriptions'], 


add below

PHP Code:

    'activationemail' => ActivationEmail, 


now save and close cos you're done :cheeky: :bored:

[high]wol stuff been removed due to the fact this should now be in the cron directory and thus won't show up anyway[/high]

and now like the days of our youth where everything was free and our mum would have dinner on the table for us, you're done.

[high]this was a fantastic vb2 hack and was made with blood, sweat and tears by Amy, she deserves all the credit for doing a fantastic job and then giving me permission to release this, so please if you install this should your gratitude in her direction as without her it would've been impossible.

the two critical bugs that a/ it wasn't sending the activationid and b/ it was deleting users who didn't change their email correctly, have been squashed by Psico[/high]

v2.1: Boofo killed 2 bugs
v2.2: more bugs killed by Boofo
v2.3: bugs killed by psico
v2.3a: bugs killed by sv1cec
v2.4: changed activation code when one exists already removed (sv1cec)
v2.4: better cron logging (me)
v2.4: table prefix bug found by jlurken, fixed by moi
v2.5: email reminder sent to your inbox thanks to sv1vec, improved logging, removed redundant code.
v2.5.2: fixed table prefixes.

[high]YOU WILL NOW NEED TO EDIT THE FILE TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS, IT'S CLEARLY MARKED ON LINE 21[/high]

[Slave]

Got this working .. nice hack

Am I right in thinking that I should delete the "Activation Reminder Email" cron job?

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Slave

Got this working .. nice hack

Am I right in thinking that I should delete the "Activation Reminder Email" cron job?

yeah, you should. not the file but the cron.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

yeah, you should. not the file but the cron.

Ta ..

[Leeper]

OK, I've got to disable this thing temporarily until I can get some help. I installed this about two weeks ago and started receiving email that my site was spaming new registraints with up to 700 emails requiring them to click on the link (that was already expired) to activate their account.
I really want to get this thing running but I'm hesitant after pumeling a few of the new users with a ton of email.

Anyone got any ideas on what I might have missed that would cause this to happen?

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Leeper

OK, I've got to disable this thing temporarily until I can get some help. I installed this about two weeks ago and started receiving email that my site was spaming new registraints with up to 700 emails requiring them to click on the link (that was already expired) to activate their account.
I really want to get this thing running but I'm hesitant after pumeling a few of the new users with a ton of email.

Anyone got any ideas on what I might have missed that would cause this to happen?

my suggestion would be to install it, then register yourself and see just how many you receive.

[Leeper]

Yeah I did that on the first report of this problem and had no problem. Then I had several others report the same problem and the issue seemed to be expanding exponentially. I had installed 5 hacks in the past 2 weeks so I started looking at these individually and when I got to this one I went through the instructions again and it finally dawned on me (I’m a little slow on the up take). I didn’t want to delete the old “activation” cron job until I saw this one working correctly so I just zeroed out all the timed fields in the task and that should do it right… Wrong! The activation was kicking off every minute and resetting the codes as it went on at its feverish pace. I changed the setting to run once a month (on the old cron) and will delete the task in two weeks if no more problems are reported.

Thanks!

[Kaishi]

for some reason, a user's name got reported twice in my email, like this
3 Day Reminder Sent To: Xantrix, Xantrix

also got this when i tried to run the cron manually to test it

Sent 5 Day email to Test1
Sent 5 Day email to McHavoc
Sent 3 Day email to Xantrix
Sent 3 Day email to Xantrix
Sent 3 Day email to Ensui

it's sent out twice to xantrix here too , does anyone know what's wrong?

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

would LOVE a add on that would check to see if the deleted user has a photopost folder and delete that as well.

think this could be an addon?

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Kaishi

for some reason, a user's name got reported twice in my email, like this
3 Day Reminder Sent To: Xantrix, Xantrix

also got this when i tried to run the cron manually to test it

Sent 5 Day email to Test1
Sent 5 Day email to McHavoc
Sent 3 Day email to Xantrix
Sent 3 Day email to Xantrix
Sent 3 Day email to Ensui

it's sent out twice to xantrix here too , does anyone know what's wrong?

is it just that user that's getting special treatment?

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

think this could be an addon?

could be but not by me.