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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[haytham]

I love this hack. It's something I wanted for a looooooooong time. I asked for it here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=157235
but until now, no one had made it. I really appreciate your work and this verrrry special mode. Gotta go try it now. Thanks.

[haytham]

Got a problem now. If I press the link inside the bouncing mail all I get is the link to my admincp plus user.php?do=modify
http://www.xxx.com/vb/admincp/user.php?do=modify

It's like getting to a "search for user" page although the link in the email is different and has the member's number in it. What can be wrong?
I added the full path to my admincp in the VB options so what am I doing wrong?

[haytham]

Sorry. My bad. It was my fault. File permission problem. Nominated.

[haytham]

haytham, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

[Antivirus]

Haytham, you need to already be logged in to your AdminCP in order to run the script. This is to prevent members from running the script when they receive the email by clicking on the EZbounce link within the email's header

[meissenation]

Is there any way to add the EZBounce header to e-mails which the link is NOT in? I have another product installed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=138946 which sends an email to the users saying they've been inactive for awhile and telling them to c'mon back and check out the site. I receive a LOT of bounces from that, but alas no link in the header to do anything with.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by meissenation

Is there any way to add the EZBounce header to e-mails which the link is NOT in? I have another product installed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=138946 which sends an email to the users saying they've been inactive for awhile and telling them to c'mon back and check out the site. I receive a LOT of bounces from that, but alas no link in the header to do anything with.

Yes and it's very easy.

1. Open remindermail.php
2. find:
   
   

   			$headers .= "To: $username <$email>" . "\r\n";
   			$headers .= "From: " . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] . " Reminder Service <" . $vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'] . ">" . "\r\n";

3. below, add:
   
   

   // add EZBounce headers
   			$bounceurl		= $vbulletin->options['ezb_admincpurl'] . "/ezbounce.php?u=" . $userid;
   			$bouncestring	= "<a href=\"$bounceurl\" target=\"_blank\">$bounceurl</a>";
   			$headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bouncestring . $delimiter;

You can use the same concept for any other mod which sends emails.

[meissenation]

Thank You!!

[globalinsites]

I noticed that I've been receiving delivery error e-mails with this error:

'554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account'

but I've also been receiving some e-mails from the e-mail addresses of users who don't have a yahoo.com account according to the delivery errors

So basically I don't know if I should manage the users of which I receive 554 delivery errors or not. Obviously they (or at least part of them, as I've noticed) do have a yahoo.com otherwise they couldn't have e-mailed me.

Has anyone else noticed this? I'm not sure how to deal with this.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by globalinsites

I noticed that I've been receiving delivery error e-mails with this error: '554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account'

but I've also been receiving some e-mails from the e-mail addresses of users who don't have a yahoo.com account according to the delivery errors
So basically I don't know if I should manage the users of which I receive 554 delivery errors or not. Obviously they (or at least part of them, as I've noticed) do have a yahoo.com otherwise they couldn't have e-mailed me. Has anyone else noticed this? I'm not sure how to deal with this.

I can't be sure but it sounds like these are bounces caused by someone who cancelled their email address with yahoo and never updated their email on your site.