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 Mrdby

I get no bounced email link nor is he placed in users waiting email confirmation. I'm not sure..maybe you can look into it for me please? Or should I post all the mods I have that might be conflicting with it?

This has been thoroughly tested on a clean install and works as designed. I'm sorry, but I don't have the time to debug this with every possible hack out there (i wish i did). Maybe post them here and someone else can help, or if I get some free time I can look into it.


(If you're testing "When member updates & confirms their new email, they are returned to original usergroup")...
If you decide to test this feature, you HAVE to use an entirely different session when logging in as the user and updating the bouncing user's email address. And especially when the bouncing user clicks the confirm link in the email confirmation after updating the email. This is essential to recreate the circumstances in which "real life" will interact with this script. This is because the code which restores the original usergroup retrieves the original usergroupid by calling $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'].

It you're testing this with two open IE windows, it will get the sessions confused. I test this using IE for adminCP and Firefox for user.

[Black Tiger]

@Antivirus, could you have another look at the following question in this thread:

#350 -> My question to you

#352 -> Your reply with your question

#360 -> My reply with the confirmation of your question.

Would be nice if there was a way to make it like that.
Thanks in advance!

[PoetJA-1975]

Thanx very much for the upgrade!
Question similar to one above....

X-Mailer: GAZ via vBulletin Mail via PHP

There is no link provided with Geek Gazette mail - Any suggestions?

Thanx,

Jacquii.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Would be nice if there was a way to make it like that. Thanks in advance!

Sorry Tiger. In ezbounce.php, there two instances of the following code:

PHP Code:

define('CP_REDIRECT', 'user.php?do=modify'); 


In each of them, replace 'user.php?do=modify' with 'index.php'

That should give you what you're looking for.

Originally Posted by PoetJA-1975

There is no link provided with Geek Gazette mail - Any suggestions?

I don't use Geek Gazette so i have no way to know, but it might be something to do with the execution order of the plugins using hook location mail_send.

Go to AdminCP->Plugins & Products->PluginManager
Try increasing the execution order for the plugin at this hook location for Ezbouncer to a higher number than that of the plugin from geek gazette using the same hook location. If this doesn't work, then try it with making Ezbounce execute before that of the plugin for geek gazette.

[PoetJA-1975]

OK - the only plugins using the mail_send hook location is vBSEO and EZ Bounce.... The vBSEO was set at 5 the EZ Bounce = 10 ---- So I changed the execution order to 4 ---- Next round of emails sends in 1 week - so hopefully will work correctly then....

At anyrate - I've spent the last couple hours manually updating bounced emails - This hack does indeed make it so much easier - whether the clickable link is readily available or not...

So Thanx for the sharing! Will let you know if the link shows in the next round

Jacquii.

[Black Tiger]

In each of them, replace 'user.php?do=modify' with 'index.php'

Thanks!!!

[Antivirus]

no problem, glad I could help.

[Mrdby]

i still need help

[Mrdby]

when i set up a test account it gave me my user ID in the bounced email on the footer... but when I get the email using my admin account...the footer has my ID in it instead of the new user that just registered.

[Alfa1]

Where can I edit the PM message, so that it explains that the account is blocked until it is activated by email validation? We are still getting a mass of emails of confused members.