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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[djbaxter]

An option just to have it automatically do the same thing I do with the "click the link", creating an audit trail in a log would be great... then I could be real lazy and do NOTHING ....

This has been suggested before but it's really not a good idea. Sometimes, bounced emails are not permanent bounces - AOL is notorious for this. You don't want to be deleting or deactivating members just because a single email bounces back. You should be examining the reason for the bounce before taking any action.

[BadgerDog]

Ok, updated to v1.8 .... :up:

Just a note....

After install, the upgraded version in AdminCP still shows v1.7 at the Manage Products screen?

I know the update occurred, because when I looked at the plug-ins, it showed the priority of "10", which you had me change to "1", meaning the update at overwritten the old code. BTW, should I switch this one to "1" as well?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

[Mrdby]

UPDated!!!

[Nathan2006]

Thank you for the update

Just one thing I found, After uploading the new file to the admincp, updating and overwriting the product I noticed that the product still says: 1.7

EZ Bounce Management - by Antivirus 1.7 Allows Admin to easily manage members with bouncing emails

Just thought I would ask

Thanks again

[Antivirus]

My bad. I fixed the script and included it in the new zip file, but forgot to update the version number for the product. Will do so tomorrow, as I'm on my blackberry right now.

[djbaxter]

It only requires the version number to be replaced in two places. It's attached for anyone who doesn't want to wait and doesn't know what to change.

[Antivirus]

ok, sorry about that last night, the uploaded file has the version updated as well. Thanks DJ for posting the xml in meantime

[Nathan2006]

Thanks for that

[Pirate45]

A really weird thing happened when I installed this. I have not had time to read the 20 pages of threads but will try to later...

We send the birthday greetings daily at 1:00 AM local time.

Every day I get 2 to 10 bounced back at that time from people with bad e-mail addresses or whatever.

I installed this a number of days ago and the bounces stopped at once?!? I had been looking forward to trying this.

So, I uninstalled it, but still no bounced e-mail at 1:00 AM for several days! It was rare if a day went by without getting at least one, often times 10 (maybe more) daily.

Now, even after uninstalling, nothing!

[Antivirus]

Pirate 45, this shouldn't have any effect upon your cronjobs. It sounds like another one of your installed mods might be causing the issue.

What other mods do you have installed?