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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[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

EZ bounce has this function:

• Updates bouncing member's "Receive Email from Administrators" setting to NO

At first glance this looks very logical, because we do not want to send admin email to accounts that do not have working email. But as we are already moving those members to a separate usergroup (like awaiting email activation), I see no chance of this anyway.

AntiVirus: could you please explain your line of reason behind this function?

Am I overseeing something important or is this setting superfluous?

It's not superfluous.

Moving a member to another group does not automatically reset the admin emails option. Try it yourself: Chcek the settings of a regular member, then move that regular member to a COPPA group or Banned Users group - what happens to the email and PM settings?

[Alfa1]

There are several kinds of emails that fall under the 'email from administrators' category:
1) email sent trough the 'send email to users' page in admincp.

But for this function the usergroups to send to need to be selected. So for this function, it is not needed to turn off 'email from administrators'. Its highly unlikely someone will send a bulk mail to 'users awaiting email confirmation'.

2) birthday emails. Yesterday I did not think about birthday emails. This kind of email makes it necessary to turn off 'email from administrators' for accounts with bouncing email addresses.

Are there other kinds of emails that are blocked by turning off 'email from administrators' ?

[djbaxter]

If the admin email option is unselected, it affects ALL emails from admins.

[valdet]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

2) birthday emails. Yesterday I did not think about birthday emails. This kind of email makes it necessary to turn off 'email from administrators' for accounts with bouncing email addresses.

I second this.
I had the same issue, with a user who although being in Bounced usergroup, he was sent a Happy Birthday email, which normally bounced back as undelivered.

I hope you may update this great hack to reflect this setting

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by valdet

I second this.
I had the same issue, with a user who although being in Bounced usergroup, he was sent a Happy Birthday email, which normally bounced back as undelivered.

I hope you may update this great hack to reflect this setting

This add-on already does that.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

If the admin email option is unselected, it affects ALL emails from admins.

Which are? That was the question.

If I turn birthday emails off and if I do not send any email trough the function in adminCP > Users > send email to users to members in the bounce group, then will any other admin emails be sent to users in the bounce group?

I'm just trying to find out what turning off the 'email from administrators' function exactly does. Which functions does it block?

[Alfa1]

Another question:

If a user is deactivated, then the user is moved to Users Awaiting Email Confirmation.
In the scheduled task manager you will find this vbulletin cron process:

Activation Reminder Email
This script sends reminder emails to users in the Awaiting Confirmation usergroup. An email is sent one day after the user has registered and again at five days.

Does this cron affect users that are in the Users Awaiting Email Confirmation usergroup?
i.e. does this only send at day 2 and day 6 of registration or does it send at day 1 and day 5 after the account is managed for bouncing email?

Sorry for all the seemingly trivial questions, but I have been working for over a month, on automating this whole process and am trying to do it right.

[Fenriz]

I think we need also to update bouncing member's "Receive Friend Request Notification" setting to NO. How to do that?

[cagbaazee]

will it works with 4.7 and above.

[Alfa1]

I'd expect so, but cant confirm it above vb 4.0.3 yet.