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Is it possible to use the Mailgun list of "Bounces and Failures" to move unused accounts offline, or out?

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Of course - this is why I mentioned above that anything added would be added in the User Browser - there's no plans to duplicate functionality in multiple places.

Is it possible to use the Mailgun list of "Bounces and Failures" to move unused accounts offline, or out?

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Thinking about this some more it's not quite as straight forward as it may seem. Imagine that an email is sent to a user account, and it bounces due to a temporary issue (mailbox full, etc.). The system them "tags" that account as being undeliverable. Due to the way Mailgun works, it will not try to redeliver to that address. So you then come along and see that it is undeliverable and delete the account, even though the situation was temporary.

So my recommendation here would be to NOT look at email bounces, but rather look at last login - if your goal is to prune inactivate accounts, their bounce state isn't really going to do that for you. We have quite a number of users (hosted users even!) who have had their email bouncing for months and yet they are still active.

Is it possible to use the Mailgun list of "Bounces and Failures" to move unused accounts offline, or out?

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Right now in the user browser you can already sort by last login - I think the easiest thing to do would just add a visual indicator to let you know that the user's email is bounced or bad - you can then delete them right there if you want. This also let's you see their profile so you can see what their content is, etc.

Newsletter Module Custom Filter Question?

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IP Addresses change all the time - JR does not record them, so you could not use them as a filter. However, if you are storing custom user or profile fields for location - i.e. "user_country" and then have that field created as a form designer field in the "account settings" screen, when sending a newsletter you could do:


or


etc.

Custom Skin Upgrades

Design and Skin Customization

Step 1: Clone the skin to create your own skin (if you have not already):

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/skin-design-guide/839/creating-your-own-skin-clone-from-an-existing-skin

Step 2: Use the compare tool to see what changes when new versions of the skin you cloned from are released:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/2394/using-the-compare-tool-to-keep-cloned-skins-up-to-date

URL from list to url for ajax use

Design and Skin Customization

Jamroom ships with jQuery, so you would want this:

https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

Hope this helps!

How to Stop "Bad Bot Spam"

Jamroom Hosting

These aren't bots - these are users using Amazon EC2 instances out of Amazon's AWS west data center as VPN servers so they can appear to come from the US. You need to make sure that when a spam account signs up on your site, any content they post is immediately removed, otherwise you're going to have problems.

Make sure you are using the Spam Blocker module with User probation enabled - this will help you out, since your Google SERP's can be hit if Google feels you're not proactive with removing spam from your site.

There's no fool proof automatic way to handle all this - it takes a real person watching for spam and removing it immediately, since you're combating real people on the other side trying to post the spam. Spammers have not been using bots for years now - it's all real people employed in places like India and China where they are paid based on the number of sites they can get pre-made messages posted to. Many of these companies use Amazon AWS for VPN's or mechanical turk.

Also - these users are not placing much of a load on your server - your server has not exceeded 22% load in the last 3 days, so you're good there.

Let me know if that helps.

I have a Stream Pay Issue

Installation and Configuration

Stream Pay only works for audio and video streams using Jamroom's audio and video module - YouTube is not supported, since Jamroom has no way of knowing when the video is actually played.

Is it possible to use the Mailgun list of "Bounces and Failures" to move unused accounts offline, or out?

Using Jamroom

Based on my experience, deleting users when their email bounces is a bad idea - email bounces for all sorts of reasons (mailbox fill, temporary DNS issues, SMTP server configuration issues, etc.) - deleting a user "automatically" is almost always going to cause an issue at some point.

video not converting

Using Jamroom

If one works but not another it usually means the video is bad. Check your Activity Log - the module is very verbose if it runs into any issue.