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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[Alfa1]

According to IB Adrian, vb 4.1 will have bounced email management.

[letusdazzleu]

Does this mod work with 4.0?

[Mrdby]

would be nice to update!

[BadgerDog]

Anyone tried this on v4.0.4?

Thanks...

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Well, for those that want to gamble ...

I just activated and ran a test of this on our v4.0.4pl1 site and it ran fine ... :up:

I DO NOT move users to another usergroup, only send them the PM and reset the various options indicated on their user account.

So, no guarantees you'll get the same result, but I was really happy to see it working on my system as we found this mod really valuable.

Regards,
Badger

[Alfa1]

It would be easy to check group change with one account.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Anyone tried this on v4.0.4?

I have not upgraded our sites to 4.x yet therefore i am not exactly sure however many people have posted here that it works with 4.x - i just haven't tested it myself.

[djbaxter]

It's working on 4.05.

One request:

At present we have the option of including the EZ Bounce link in EITHER the header or the body of the email. It would be nice to have the option of both. Depending on the email server, no matter which option I choose some bounced emails will be missing the link.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

The script has the same "safety check" as most other files in your admincp which only allows a logged-in admin with "can_admin_settings" permissions, usually this is only primary admin (i.e. you).

Im having issues with this safety check. How do I turn this off?
I want someone else to handle my thousands of bounces, but I do not want to give "can_admin_settings" permissions.

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

At present we have the option of including the EZ Bounce link in EITHER the header or the body of the email. It would be nice to have the option of both. Depending on the email server, no matter which option I choose some bounced emails will be missing the link.

You can achieve your desired result by editing the following code within the plugin for hook location: mail_send

PHP Code:

if (!$vbulletin->options['ezb_showezbouncelink'])
{
    // if turned off, put bounce url into header (default option)
    $headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bounceurl . $delimiter;
    /* replace above line with following line if the url in bouncing email header is not displaying as a link
    $headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bouncestring . $delimiter; 
    */
}
else
{
    // if turned on, construct bounce code & place in email message body
    $bouncecode    = construct_phrase($vbphrase['anti_bounce_message'], $bounceurl); 
    /* replace above line with following line if the url in bouncing email body is not displaying as a link
    $bouncecode    = construct_phrase($vbphrase['anti_bounce_message'], $bouncestring); 
    */
    $message .= $bouncecode;
} 


Originally Posted by Alfa1

Im having issues with this safety check. How do I turn this off?
I want someone else to handle my thousands of bounces, but I do not want to give "can_admin_settings" permissions.

this permission check is done in the ezbounce.php file in the following code:

PHP Code:

// ######################## CHECK ADMIN PERMISSIONS #######################
if (!can_administer('canadminsettings'))
{
    print_cp_no_permission();
} 


If you want to change how this condition is evaluated, simply change the conditional within the if() clause.