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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[Doug Nelson]

I show the link in the bounced emails, but it's not clickable. I tried the 'add space before and after' technique suggested, but that didn't work for me. Using Outlook 2007.

[Lionel]

I've just installed and I got a mysql error. I am on mysql 5.0.2. How can I fix that please?

PHP Code:

SELECT * FROM user
WHERE email LIKE '%fname\_lname@hotmail.com%';

MySQL Error  : Table 'user' was not locked with LOCK TABLES
Error Number : 1100 


I replaced real email with fname and lname

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

I show the link in the bounced emails, but it's not clickable. I tried the 'add space before and after' technique suggested, but that didn't work for me. Using Outlook 2007.

Are you talking about the link in the bounced email's body or the link in the bounced email's header?

Originally Posted by Lionel

I've just installed and I got a mysql error. I am on mysql 5.0.2. How can I fix that please?

I'm not too familiar with MySql 5.x as my servers are running MySql v4.1.12. I haven't ever experienced this type of error so i can't help, but you might find some info here...

[Doug Nelson]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Are you talking about the link in the bounced email's body or the link in the bounced email's header?

The bounced emails header is included in the body of the email that I get back. It starts:

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

And so it is in this area that the link is not clickable.

[Antivirus]

That's odd, the link should be "clickable" for you. It's due to one of the following:

Your settings in the AdminCP Options for this Hack. Try setting "Show EZ Bounce link in email message body" to YES

OR

Your settings for Outlook... Try changing your email client to something other then Outlook 2007 and it should work. I can't provide support for Outlook, unfortunately I don't know which of your Outlook settings need to be changed to properly display links in your emails.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Are you talking about the link in the bounced email's body or the link in the bounced email's header?




I'm not too familiar with MySql 5.x as my servers are running MySql v4.1.12. I haven't ever experienced this type of error so i can't help, but you might find some info here...

yeah that lock table is messing me up. Since I moved to that new server i am unable to do a backup because of that

[Mrdby]

anyproblems folks?

[Antivirus]

Version 1.6 just released. If upgrading, just import the new product over the old, be sure to select "ALLOW OVERWRITE" option when doing so. Please read changelog above for info on fixes/changes, etc...

[blogtorank]

Thanks for the update.

[Mrdby]

updated