Administrative and Maintenance Tools - User Awaiting Moderation Email Notification

This modification will enable the sending of an email to the email address specified in 'AdminCP > Settings > Options > User Registration Options > Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation' when a users clicks on the Activation link in the registration email.


INSTALLATION

Go to:

AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

...and import the 'product-th_moderate_user_email_1-2.xml' file.

Once installed, new options will be available within AdminCP > Settings > Options > User Registration Options allowing you to enable this setting. It will only send the email if the following settings are set to Yes:

- AdminCP > Settings > Options > User Registration Options > Moderate New Members
- AdminCP > Settings > Options > User Registration Options > Verify Email address in Registration

If EITHER of the above settings are set to No, the email will not be sent.

UNINSTALLING

Go to:

AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products

...and select 'Uninstall' from the dropdown next to the Product.


TRANSLATIONS

The email text uses a new Email Subject Text and Email Body Text Phrase (moderatenewuser). These can be translated within the Phrase Manager into your own language if this is not English.

The AdminCP phrases used are:

- setting_TH_UAME_active_title
- setting_TH_UAME_active_desc
- setting_modnewemail_desc
- setting_modnewemail_title

Note: Although not tested in previous version, given that the code has not changed, it's likely that this will work in previous version including 3.8.x however if there are any issues with previous versions, they will not be supported. If the code changes within the vBulletin core, this product will only be updated for that version onwards.


Versions

1.3 Changed variable names in email body text to account for users ending browser sessions then completing activation.
1.2 Added separate field to allow notifications to be sent to a different address. Removed product dependency.
1.1 Corrected Email Body Text phrase to use AdminCP directory from config.php rather than hard-coded value
1.0 Initial release

Thanks to BirdOfPrey5, Lynne and Paul M for putting me right on some rank stupidity with this...

[Snowhog]

As requested. I had 17 new members awaiting moderation this evening, and not a single email telling me about them.

[S]http://www.kubuntuforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=3313&d=1337911682[/S]

[Trevor Hannant]

Attachment isn't working for me - can you attach it to here rather than your own site please?

[Snowhog]

Okay. I believe I've attached it now.

[Trevor Hannant]

I've just setup the same settings as your attachment on 2 different sites and all still email me when a user activates their account. Have you enabled email logging on your install:

AdminCP > Settings > Options > Error Handling and Logging

If not, try that and see if the emails are written to the logs Ok.

[res6cue]

Working perfectly on 4.2.0! Thanks for writing this mod, it's exactly what I needed.

[Snowhog]

Originally Posted by Trevor Hannant

I've just setup the same settings as your attachment on 2 different sites and all still email me when a user activates their account. Have you enabled email logging on your install:

AdminCP > Settings > Options > Error Handling and Logging

If not, try that and see if the emails are written to the logs Ok.

I created a directory (Logs) and made it writable by the server (chmod 777) and put Logs in AdminCP > Settings > Options > Error Handling and Logging > Log Emails to a File. I'll check the created .log file tomorrow and report back.

I really want to figure this one out.

I'm still wondering if it has to do with the fact that I removed the email address from:

Email Address to Notify About New Members
This email address will receive an email message when a new user signs up. Leave the option blank to disable this function.

[res6cue]

Originally Posted by Snowhog

I created a directory (Logs) and made it writable by the server (chmod 777) and put Logs in AdminCP > Settings > Options > Error Handling and Logging > Log Emails to a File. I'll check the created .log file tomorrow and report back.

I really want to figure this one out.

I'm still wondering if it has to do with the fact that I removed the email address from:

I just tested the mod by removing the email addresses I had under Email Address to Notify About New Members and leaving only the email addresses under Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation, and everything worked fine. I did not get a New User notification email (expected behavior), but I did get the "A New User is Awaiting Moderation" email as expected after clicking the verification link.

It appears that this mod does not look at or care about the Email Address to Notify About New Members field. I've tested a few different options and have gotten the expected results every time. Good luck figuring out why it's not working on your forum. :up:

[Snowhog]

I wish it did here. It still isn't working. I had eleven new registrants in Users Awaiting Moderation, and I received no emails on any of them. I really hope that Trevor Hannant chimes in soon.

[Snowhog]

The only way that I can get emails on new members awaiting moderation is to limit to only one email address in Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation.

Before the MOD, we could put multiple email addresses in Email Address to Notify About New Members, and that worked. We should be able to blank this field and put multiple email addresses in Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation and get the emails, but apparently, this isn't the case.

Trevor Hannant - Can you look into this. Multiple email address, separate by a space, in Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation should work just as it did when putting multiple email addresses in Email Address to Notify About New Members.

[res6cue]

Originally Posted by Snowhog

The only way that I can get emails on new members awaiting moderation is to limit to only one email address in Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation.

Before the MOD, we could put multiple email addresses in Email Address to Notify About New Members, and that worked. We should be able to blank this field and put multiple email addresses in Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation and get the emails, but apparently, this isn't the case.

Trevor Hannant - Can you look into this. Multiple email address, separate by a space, in Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation should work just as it did when putting multiple email addresses in Email Address to Notify About New Members.

I just tested that exact scenario (2 email addresses in Email Address to Notify About User Awaiting Moderation, no email addresses in Email Address to Notify About New Members), and it worked perfectly.

There doesn't seem to be any issues with this mod, rather something specific to your forum that you need to figure out.