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.
Bought the new CD entitled Sleaze Freak by Scum Of The Earth on Amazon.com

#> 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]

Here's your problem...

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

I also uninstalled before reinstalling,

The install instructions specify to not uninstall during an upgrade, but to re-install allowing overwrite. When you uninstalled, your ezbounce fields were wiped out, which included your user's original usergroup info.

[Boofo]

Does this keep a list anywhere of whose email has been removed and on what date for easy referral?

[Black Tiger]

but to re-install allowing overwrite. When you uninstalled, your ezbounce fields were wiped out,

The first time I re-installed allowing overwrite, did that 2 times, didn't help either.
That''s why I uninstalled and then reinstalled again. After that I deleted the test account and made another one, and tested again, did not help either.
So like I said, I think it's better to wait until the 3.7 release will come and then try again.

Or maybe try on my other board which is 3.7 b4, but then I need to know if things can crash.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Does this keep a list anywhere of whose email has been removed and on what date for easy referral?

If you are moving users to another usergroup during bounce management, the users in that group would be your list, but thee's no record of date for when they were moved.

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Or maybe try on my other board which is 3.7 b4, but then I need to know if things can crash.

I dont know if it works on 3.7 yet, as im waiting for a stable release before I look into it.

[Black Tiger]

I dont know if it works on 3.7 yet, as im waiting for a stable release before I look into it.

Oke thanks, I just upgraded to 3.7b5, so I'd better wait then until gold is released and try the new version then.

[Antivirus]

tiger, i dont think its a problem with your version, i think another mod you installed is conflicting with it, as the problems you mention don't occur on a clean install.

[malakaikingston]

+1 installed

[MustangLisa]

This seems great! I'm installing it now to check out. I haven't read through all 35 pages of comments, but I am wondering if the user has to manually change their subscription and email receiving settings once they update their email address? I don't want to use the usergroup change since I have subscriptions in place for their primary usergroup (along with secondary groups) and don't want to remove them from it. If it would revert their email settings on updating their email address, that would be really great! Thanks for your work on this!

[Black Tiger]

i think another mod you installed is conflicting with it, as the problems you mention don't occur on a clean install.

The only one which could do that was uninstalled before I tried again.
So maybe a leftover of an old hack is causing the problems. I'll try after the particular forum is upgraded to 3.7 gold when it comes out.
I will do a clean install then.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by MustangLisa

If it would revert their email settings on updating their email address, that would be really great! Thanks for your work on this!

No, this only reverts their original usergroup, not email settings. Maybe for the 3.7 version I will think about addign this.

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

The only one which could do that was uninstalled before I tried again. So maybe a leftover of an old hack is causing the problems. I'll try after the particular forum is upgraded to 3.7 gold when it comes out. I will do a clean install then.

I think that will likely resolve your issue.