[CDB] PhpBB IUM (Inactive User Manager/reminder)

[Sepp71]

I would like to post my experiences with this extension: I am just running it to "clean up" the user database for a board with about 700 - 800 users.
Quite a lot of them have only registered to ask a single question, get the answer and then disappear without deleting their account over the last years.
Sending the e-mails (with a max. of 250) and auto-deleting works fine.
Clean up means, that I have put the period for reminders down to 10 days and move any user who logs in at the moment to a special group "Ignoring" to avoid bothering "normal users" with sleeper reminders.
First point:
Now I get about 30 - 70 undeliverable mails per day, most of them from mail servers of public administrations, enterprises and law firms, so I start wondering if this will bring my forum-e-maily account on a spam blacklist.
Deleting them manually is a lot of work, if the user names are not included in the "undeliverable" notices.
Second point:
At the moment with IUM working users that are no longer interested in my forum get at least 4 E-Mails, until they are finally out (reminders 1 - 3 and Deletingconfirmation). From my point of view, this is definitely too much - and that is what some of the users reply to my reminders, too: "Stop spamming me", "Simply delete and shut up" and so on. One of them is a lawyer and his reply of this kind motivated me to post ths problemhere.
I cannot motivate them to self-delete their accounts because it requires a log-in - with a password lost etc. this seems to be too much for those users.

I would like to suggest, to keep the IUM going with somewhat less e-mail traffic (e.g.: only one reminder, then auot-delete with confirmation).
From my point of view it could also be made possible to self-delete an account without logging in.
Thanks!
Sepp

[andreask]

Thank you for stating your thoughts/ideas.
They will be considered on my future updates of the ext.
For now I am trying to validate it so it can go to the CDB of phpbb.

[wads24]

Feature suggestion...

Would it be a easy change to give option to choose how many emails sent per hour instead of per day?

[ciiz1]

I apologize for writing through the translator. When visiting the forum via a reminder, it is correct to reset the counter of the departed emails . Users who visit on a reminder are still deleted after three cycles. Thank you I really like the extension

[andreask]

Hi ciiz1,

Could you please let me know the version of the ext, phpbb etc.

[ciiz1]

PHPBB 3.3.3
PHPBB Inactive User Manager 1.1.8-RC

Probably the translator conveyed the essence incorrectly. The extension works correctly. Idea: Reset the number of sent messages if the sleeper visited the forum. When I see the example, I will send a screenshot. Thanks

[andreask]

Hello friends,

After some delay I managed to fix some minor issues and also address some ideas that was easy to implement.

I Hereby announce version 1.1.9-rc
You can download it directly from here.
Or you can visit github and downloaded from here: https://github.com/andreaskou/PHPBB_IUM

Major changes
All requested fixes by phpbb validation team has been dealt.
Logs made searchable.
Mail template (sleepers.txt) is using twig syntax.

Minor changes
Minor tweaks here and there.

Please note that you will have to update language file sleepers.txt of your language(s) accordingly. Otherwise the e-mail messages will not be sent correctly.

Let me know if you found any problems.
Next week I will try to submit for validation.

All the best,

Andreas

[3Di]

Next week I will try to submit for validation.

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... _reminder/

[potku]

Hello! We just updated to the latest version. We are still huge fans of this EXT, so thanks, Andreas.

One question: in the mail, the sender is [email protected]. How could that be changed to just, for example, Website.com?

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EDIT: Wow, congrats on validation! I will ask there. Sorry...

[HiFiKabin]

PHPBB Inactive User Manager/Reminder on the CDB