Un-Activated User Management

although i know this works manually, it's untested via cron

Originally Posted by AmyKhar

This hack will email a warning to members who have not activated their account and then delete them. It can run via cron, and is a pretty darn easy hack to install.

Features:
1. Emails users after 3 days and reminds them to activate their accounts.


2. Emails users after 5 days and lets them know their account will be deleted if they do not activate.

3. Emails users after 8 days with a final warning.

4. Deletes un-activated members after 10 days.

it still does exactly the same but this time for vb3

oh yeah, it emails you to tell you who was deleted, emailed so you're always informed.

if you got a big board you can't live without this, it stops the crap from piling up.

anything messes up, i can't take responsibility i'm afraid so back up before you try it.

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Add-On:
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if you like your templates in your admin cp neat then do this:
in "includes/adminfunctions_template.php" find

PHP Code:

    'subscription' => $vbphrase['group_paid_subscriptions'], 


add below

PHP Code:

    'activationemail' => ActivationEmail, 


now save and close cos you're done :cheeky: :bored:

[high]wol stuff been removed due to the fact this should now be in the cron directory and thus won't show up anyway[/high]

and now like the days of our youth where everything was free and our mum would have dinner on the table for us, you're done.

[high]this was a fantastic vb2 hack and was made with blood, sweat and tears by Amy, she deserves all the credit for doing a fantastic job and then giving me permission to release this, so please if you install this should your gratitude in her direction as without her it would've been impossible.

the two critical bugs that a/ it wasn't sending the activationid and b/ it was deleting users who didn't change their email correctly, have been squashed by Psico[/high]

v2.1: Boofo killed 2 bugs
v2.2: more bugs killed by Boofo
v2.3: bugs killed by psico
v2.3a: bugs killed by sv1cec
v2.4: changed activation code when one exists already removed (sv1cec)
v2.4: better cron logging (me)
v2.4: table prefix bug found by jlurken, fixed by moi
v2.5: email reminder sent to your inbox thanks to sv1vec, improved logging, removed redundant code.
v2.5.2: fixed table prefixes.

[high]YOU WILL NOW NEED TO EDIT THE FILE TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS, IT'S CLEARLY MARKED ON LINE 21[/high]

[y2krazy]

/me clicks install!

[pagekeeper]

cheers ! very hard hack to find!!

this isnt included with the latest version of VB is it ?

[sv1cec]

I have a question for the author here.

When the cron script is run manually, it generates some messages, like to which member the activation e-mail reminder has been send etc. However, when run from the cron, no such details are kept, anywhere, nor do I (the admin) receive any e-mail about who was warned or deleted.

I tried to find the code (in the script) which was supposed to send that e-mail to the admin, and I can't so maybe I am not that familiar with php, or maybe I missed something?

Rgds
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John

[venomx]

Originally Posted by pagekeeper

cheers ! very hard hack to find!!

this isnt included with the latest version of VB is it ?

I looked in my vb3.0.3 cron jobs and only see clean up 1 and 3... so not sure... Anyone?

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by venomx

I looked in my vb3.0.3 cron jobs and only see clean up 1 and 3... so not sure... Anyone?

The one you should deactivate is called "Activation Reminder Email", if that is what you are asking.

Rgds
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John

[venomx]

I dont see that under crons... Is there a place we turn that on at somewhere else?

[pagekeeper]

problem i find is i know this hack is running every 12 hours but i cant understand why it does appear in the logs ? it would be useful thats all, is something set wrong maybe ?

Activation Reminder Email - deactivate or delete ? cause i dont think you can deactivate can you ?

[pagekeeper]

*bump*

im not sure wether this hack it working properly, for me anyways...

whats the numbers to set the cron scripts at ? every 24hrs ? im really confused so if someone could point out what to set it as would be cool.

any way to get it to show what its done in the logs ?

[sabret00the]

run once every 24 hours should be something like "03 0 * * * "
and i'll release an add-on to get it to run it to add to the logs in the morning

[SaN-DeeP]

sabret00the just 1 question for your hack.
My board is suffering from yahoo and hotmail spam filters, which make all the emails send from my forums to users spam/bulk mail folders who are using Yahoo or Hotmail. .

Does your hack, sends emails to there Inbox properly ?

Let me know. if it does, I will strarightway install it.

Regards,
Sandy...