AmigoJack wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 1:31 pm
From my experience this would also penalize longtime members who are capable of maintaining either their associated address, or their e-mail account to begin with, simply using the same as they did 15 years ago when registering.
It's a minor inconvenience, this could be something set to many months or even years. That said you could offer option to simply ignore active users or just an option in the UCP to self validate without actually sending email. The primary objective of this is an automated process to weed out notifications that are being sent to older and inactive accounts. There should be minimal impact to active users, as I already noted you would not prevent someone form logging in and using the forum.
There are several reasons for e-mails to bounce (account unknown, inbox full, sender on blacklist...)
I'm aware there is different reasons but the bulk of the returns I get are for non existent accounts, I suspect most of the full inbox returns are from abandoned email accounts. I have only been on one list I'm aware of and that was quite an ordeal as it was specialized list that didn't even apply to the email I was sending to begin with. I don't want to be on anymore.
and I just put those members into the group "muted" (which turns off sending e-mail for any occasion). It goes along with an automated PM explaining this and that, and that if they change their e-mail address they're automatically lifted from that group, gaining back the e-mail as notification medium
I'm doing something similar but it's a PITA to manage. Ideally you would process returned email server side and update the users notifications. It's something I have explored but probably not doable for 99% of phpBB administrators even with support for it.
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