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Looks like this hack is not supported anymore. Here are a few bug fixes for those who still care.

1. There's a bug in the regular expressions: all occurences of

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

should be replaced with

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

otherwise an email address scraped from this line: "Final-Recipient: RFC822; <[email protected]>" will include the final ">" ("[email protected]>"). Apparently it affects all addresses at charter.net.

2. Next thing, sometimes members fill out their email in capital letters, but reporting MTA rewrites them in lower case, such as: "Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]" for the user provided "[email protected]", so md5 check of [email protected] will be against md5-encoded [email protected] and a bounce will be reported as forged when it's in fact not.
The solution: strtolower() member email address before sending and also strtolower() before checking them against X-Return-ID.

3. Finally, the recipient email address may be an alias for the different account. In this case "Final-Recipient" line will include that another email address instead, and the check for the forged bounces will fail. This one is tough to correct. It is amended by adding another custom header with an original email address and checking md5 against it and not the one scraped from a "Final-Recipient" line. But obviously this is a bit more prone to the errors and the possible forging though.

Where are this line located: RFC822;[ ]*[<]*(\S+@\S+)[>]?

Thanks, but can you please englihten this more? Or post an updated file.

Hi all,

Need some advice if you can, I uninstalled vbouncer for various reasons, I used the uninstall script to do so but my members that had previously bounced emails are still not recieving subscription emails or normal vbulletin sent emails, can anyone advise why or how to make it so they can recieve emails. BTW - I logged into theor account and checked all of their settings and they are ok / correct.

Please help

AO

Is there a 3.6.3?

I made a new E-mail address (notificaty@) but the mails are still send from webmaster@. Did I do something wrong?

running a new version of Vb, that's all :(

You're joking right?
So it doesn't work?

I'm interested in this for the latest version as well.

Not at all

it is working when you manually use your "fake" e-mail address as sender, ex. when you use the "Send e-mail to users" function under "users" in admincp, then it is a powerful tool

Ok.. That's nice.
But of course I also want to use the notify-function.

well then i suppose you re-write it all :) I wouldn't mind if you did :)

I can't my friend ;). Otherwise it was done already :D.

Can`t even install it. Step 1 gives me this db error:

I get the same error.

i remember there should be a solution to this issue earlier this thread, go search and you'll find it

i did search. and the only reply i found was the one above my last post. so i guess i'll start digging through all the pages.

Found it on like 19, however after step one now i get

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

lol this is also described in a earlier post :) clean your DB for Vbouncer tables, and run the installer again.

The problem is that you all ready have run some of the installation.

I use vBouncer and I'm not satisfied. Its very limited in that it will only inform users who bounce emails from thread subscriptions. That means whenever I send out a mass email, all of those bounces are not caught by vbouncer.

Is it working properly?

that because there have been huge changes within vB since this add was released. But if you just remember to use your "fake" e-mail address when you post, it does work, and collect properly. and then move the users to the banned group

I don't understand what you mean by fake email address.

Have you read the info about this hack and understood have it works?

Yes I do but I don't recall anything requieing me to use a fake email address to post messages.

I have vBulletin running on one server, and my mail server running on another. When I run the diagnostics test, I get PASSED for everything except 'Your IMAP/POP settings can connect.'

As of right now, under IMAP/POP Connection I have '{xxxx.com:110/pop3}INBOX', followed by my username and my password. I have attempted to use my IP Address, mail.xxxx.com and postal.xxxx.com. All of these do not pass the test.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

use this:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

that should do it :alien:

any one who have fixed this hack?

Thanks! That did the trick.

I have this set up and it appears to be working EXCEPT that it's not moving the users to the new usergroup that I set up for them.

Is this vb 3.6.x compatible ??

Not sure if this will help solve my problem, but here is a screenshot of my settings...

*certain info blocked intentionally.

So I have this completely working in 3.6.4. I'm not sure what other members are having issue with. It correctly identifies bounced email and will automatically move users into the proper usergroup.

I uninstalled the 3.5 version, using the unistall option. Then I reinstalled using GNDI's version a few pages back.

I did make two changes in vbouncer-clean.php.

Replace the send_pm function with the folllowing (properly sends users pms):

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Then find:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

And replace it with (fixes an issue with sending pms and email notices to users who are already bouncing):

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

That is all I've done. I'm also attaching a copy of my settings so you can see what your settings should look like.

To make sure you're setting this up right - first you create the bouncer email address.
Make sure it works.
Setup a usergroup for bounced users.
Uninstall vBouncer.
Install GNDI's vBouncer. Configure vBouncer.
Check the email account (make sure to leave the messages on the server, so connect using imap or a webmail system) and see if you have some bounced emails.

If not, wait.
If you do, run the Scheduled Task for vBouncer Collect.
Look at the cron log, is there an entry for vBouncer Collect? What does it say?
Look at your vBouncer Stats, are there entries there?
Check the email account again. Have the emails been deleted?

Now run the Scheduled Task for vBouncer Clean. Did it give errors or say done?
Check the cron log, is there an entry for vBouncer Clean?

There you go. I may not have time to answer many questions, but I'll try. Good luck!

I try to clean my db after unistall this hack and when I try to install again give me error any way to upgrade this hack so over write old data ?

Any chance of this being ported to 3.6 or if it works on vB 3.6?

[edit]

Works great - thanks LunarTech. Running 3.6.4.

A bit of any unrelated question: when I installed this I was using php mail. I just changed to SMTP mail using -f param Now, the From address is still my default vbulletin admin email, while the "Return-Path" is the vbouncer email. I'm assuming this is correct behavior. But it would be great to not have the default vbulletin admin email as the "from" address though - I always get people replying to post notifications :(

I was using this hack with 3.5.x and I miss it really in 3.6.x.

It there any way to get this working without great manual work on 3.6.x series?
Maybe authour would agree that somebody else ports it to 3.6.x if he have had no time to do it by himself??? :)

Does this work on 3.6?

I checked the whole post. It seems it`s a douzy installing it, but getting it to work on a busy forum, it comes as a plus. It can run with v3.6.x, but there might be incompatibilities.

I've got it working on 3.6.4 for me, using GNDI's version posted earlier in the thread and the instructions posted above by LunaTech. Thanks guys :)

does it work for 3.6.7?

When I accessed install page, it always displayed the mysql error page,it showed that the sql query is not compatible.....

I can confirm that this is working on vBulletin 3.7 with the changes necessary for 3.6.

For some reason the send_pm function is now giving me trouble.

It seems to be the line:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Ideas?

I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in /home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxx/includes/class_mail.php(261) : eval()'d code on line 12

using 3.7.1 with the patched version a few pages back and lunatech's edits, i have this fully working on a cpanel/exim server :)

would you mind posting direct links to the posts that mention the correct changes. i see many ideas and its a bit confusing

many thanks in advance ! :)

Hi,
does anyone Port this Hack to 3.8 ?

Does anyone have this working on vb 3.7.4 or vb 3.8?

some brave coder should pick this project. its such a needed mod.

agreed, I need this pretty bad.

This would be a great mod for 3.8...

Working for me on 3.8.1, but I remember making some changes to it a couple of releases ago. Will check to see what I did.

That would be nice! Please let us know.

The only changes I've made are ones for vbouncer-clean.php that were suggested earlier in this thread.

Has anyone compared to this bounce plug-in: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...ncer-clean.php ?

I'm trying to decide which to choose, and the other one seems more recent.

I would install this for sure if there's a 3.8+ version to come out

I want this to Send the user a pm when there email was returned as undeliverable , and on the second instance , not allow the user to do anything until he updates his email address

If I read this right I need shell access to my hosting server to set up vBouncer, correct?
Or is it possible to simply have it interact with the new mailbox as a *client*?

how can i do this .. to all my users .. and to all post.
with a mysql querry without using the hack ..?

I need this for v3.8, does anyone have a updated copy that works that I can install?

Seems to work fine for 3.8.4.

Yeap needs to be updated to 3.8.4. This is a huge problem.

Again, it *does* work on 3.8.4. Maybe a screenshot helps prove the point :)
Notice my vB version and the last run date of the cron job. And the intercepted bounces of course, heh. Annoyingly enough hotmail cries wolf frequently.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/attac...1&d=1256767534

If vBouncer isn't working, you should probably try reinstalling it. Make sure you follow the instructions to the letter, who knows you may have missed something important at the first attempt :)
Don't forget to tick 'overwrite' when importing the product again, otherwise nothing changes.

is this work in vb 3.84

please help

YES!!!!!

Awesome.

AWESOME MOD!!


Anyone could make this full compatible with 3.6.X or 3.8.X ?
Script install fails in first step, MySQL Error: Unknown column 'phrasetypeid' in 'field list', which is normal since phrasetypeid belongs to 3.5.X only....

upgrade to vb4?

the last post he made was in 2006.

I know this thread hasnt been looked at for 5 years now but this would truly be a huge modification for big boards..........in fact any board after the recent hacking of the reCaptca and loads of spam accounts being made all over the place , this could be used to clean up the accounts after the mess has been made.

I see this mod failed after 3.7 and 3.8 so if anyone has this working on VB4 then please feel free to share :)

Would be awesome if someone can fix the phrases. I guess the rest will work.

Works fine for me in vB 4.1.2

Doesn't work here on 4.1.1, Installations fails,

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

The install part probably no longer works, but I installed mine on the target version and the bouncer code has always worked after each upgrade of vB.

Hmmm, ok. Thanks.

Regards

Daniel

Can the author or someone else fix the errors in the install file to work on vb 4?

Hi,
i would like it too :D

I have permission from tamarian to update & release a version of this mod for both vB3.8 and vB4.x - I'll release it asap.

Mind that many Email providers no longer include the status code in the bounce message. And there also are services like bluebottle that block everything.

Hey Eric,

thanks a lot :)

Looking forward to the release Eric, let me know when its released

5 weeks later - any news? :)

Actually I'm currently working on adding this functionality to my Email Reminders addon. I have permission as well.

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Originally Posted by TalkVirginia
Hi Tamarian,

I hope this note finds you doing well. I wanted to thank you for providing your vBouncer addon to the vBulletin community and the work you put into it. I've been working on the "Email Reminders for Inactive Users" addon and I've had several PMs asking for similar functionality as what you have in vBouncer. I was wondering if you would mind if I updated your vBouncer code for vBulletin 4 and incorporate it into my addon?
Thank you again,

Don't mind at all, go for it.
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Yeah, I'll use this also when it's ready - thanks (again) Eric -

//sse

Hi,
any News about an VB 4.1.x Version?

I'm also interrested.

me too.

I too am looking forward to this.

Did anything come of this?

News?

I ported it to vb 3.8 and here is patched files for any one that want to use this amazing addon on vb3.8,

Just remember that this files are not official and from author of mod, so there is no warranty to work. But it works for me.

Any news about a version for 4.x?