Poor Man's Bounced Email Handler
Mod Version: 1.00, by rebelde
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| vB Version: 4.2.0 | Rating:  (0 vote - 0 average) |
Installs: 5 |
| Released: 08 Aug 2012 | Last Update: Never | Downloads: 26 |
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This modification has been replaced by the full Bounced Email Handler. Please use that one instead.
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What does the bounced email handler do?
It stops sending emails to addresses that are no longer valid. This helps keep your email from being marked as spam.
More technically:
It does not stop sending any other emails such as:
- forum subscription updates
- Happy birthday messages
- PM notifications
- other important emails
Why is it a "Poor Man's" bounce handler?
Because this is just a hack. It blocks a lot of emails, but not all that should be blocked. Also, it just leaches off of DBTech's hard work in building a bounce handler as part of his vBMail mod. Still, it is better than nothing, and that is what I had before.
I hope to encourage somebody (like you!) or vBulletin to code something better. I just don't have time to do it myself.
To install:
Please, somebody, create a real bounce handler!
The steps:
0. Get DBTech's permission. If you can't get permission, rewrite their code.
1. Strip down and modify DBTech's excellent vBMail work to just what we need, see how it works and rewrite it. (Everything leading up to marking users in the user table as "do not email".)
2. Improve it to do a better job of deciding when to mark an email address as a bad. (With some types of responses, you don't need to wait for five bad emails.)
3. Find a way to stop sending other emails that shouldn't be sent such as forum subscription updates and birthday messages.
Can you do just one of these steps? Any help is appreciated.
Special thanks to DBTech for his work. What I did here is really very little. DBTech did the hard work.
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What does the bounced email handler do?
It stops sending emails to addresses that are no longer valid. This helps keep your email from being marked as spam.
More technically:
- It collects bounced emails, counts them and marks user accounts as "do not send email".
- It stops sending "new post" notifications to those addresses.
It does not stop sending any other emails such as:
- forum subscription updates
- Happy birthday messages
- PM notifications
- other important emails
Why is it a "Poor Man's" bounce handler?
Because this is just a hack. It blocks a lot of emails, but not all that should be blocked. Also, it just leaches off of DBTech's hard work in building a bounce handler as part of his vBMail mod. Still, it is better than nothing, and that is what I had before.
I hope to encourage somebody (like you!) or vBulletin to code something better. I just don't have time to do it myself.
To install:
- Install DBTech's vBMail. This is required!
- Set up an email address to handle bounces.
- Set your vBMail options similar to the ones in poor-mans-reply-all-installation-instructions.txt
- Install this plugin.
Please, somebody, create a real bounce handler!
The steps:
0. Get DBTech's permission. If you can't get permission, rewrite their code.
1. Strip down and modify DBTech's excellent vBMail work to just what we need, see how it works and rewrite it. (Everything leading up to marking users in the user table as "do not email".)
2. Improve it to do a better job of deciding when to mark an email address as a bad. (With some types of responses, you don't need to wait for five bad emails.)
3. Find a way to stop sending other emails that shouldn't be sent such as forum subscription updates and birthday messages.
Can you do just one of these steps? Any help is appreciated.
Special thanks to DBTech for his work. What I did here is really very little. DBTech did the hard work.
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