Forum Activity for @claygordon

Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/10/15 10:29:36AM
752 posts

Feature Request - Email scrubbing
Ning To Jamroom

brian:
I understand - you're needs and setup here are unique, so we don't have anything "out of the box" that is going to work for you.

Where is the "Member has claimed account" flag located at - is it part of the User Account? Profile?

Brian -

I don't think that my need is unique - I think I am just the first person to have brought it up. I think it's going to turn up in a large percentage of Ning migrations. Ning stopped forwarding bounces to my member broadcast emails so I have no way of knowing which accounts - and for how long - have been unreachable. If I get a lot of bounces I want a way to process them in an automated fashion.

I don't know where the member has claimed account flag is - Brian will know. I don't think it shows up on either the User Account or User Profile forms. Also, imported accounts are set to active so that their content is visible even if they haven't claimed the account. Most of the script is there, the only major changes are to accept a list of email addresses and to turn off all notifications.

I am not competent to write a script that will do this without the risk of seriously mucking up the member database table.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 11:55:49AM
752 posts

Feature Request - Email scrubbing
Ning To Jamroom

SO - that does not solve my problem.

The issue is bounces I got from sending out the Ning invite email. I want to process those bounces in a way that prevents me from sending out invites to accounts I know will bounce - without having to do it manually - and even then I still need to set the "Member has claimed account" flag manually and I don't know how to do that.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 11:38:35AM
752 posts

Feature Request - Email scrubbing
Ning To Jamroom

Brian -

I don't have any subscribers at the moment, so that does not appear to be the solution.
I don't want to delete the accounts, for the reasons mentioned.

If I set the bounce to inactive then they are still in the system but none of their content can be seen by anyone, correct?

Also - just to be sure - When I resend the Ning Invite email it won't be sent to the accounts I've made inactive.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 11:23:58AM
752 posts

Feature Request - Email scrubbing
Ning To Jamroom

My first attempt to send the email to members to claim their accounts was stopped by Mailgun about the time I sent out the first 1000 invites because of a high bounce rate (~5%). These were bounces from email addresses that were no longer reachable for some reason.

If I have 10,000 members then I can expect 500 or so bad accounts and I need to search for and change them one at a time. Sounds like something a program should be written to do. lol

I don't actually want to delete the accounts as some of them have posted interesting content and there is a chance that the owner might show up at some point in the future to reclaim the account.

What I would like to have is a script that I can run:

The system creates a quota called "Do Not Mail" if it does not already exist. Notifications are all set to off for members in this quota but I can set module permissions to whatever I want (so I can display any content).

I enter a list of bounced email addresses from (e.g., Mailgun), 1 per line.

The script moves the profile into the "Do Not Mail" quota, sets the notifications all to off, and sets the "the user has claimed their account" flag so when I send the Ning Invite email that email does not get sent to accounts in the "Do Not Mail" quota.

updated by @claygordon: 03/29/15 01:23:40PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 10:41:24AM
752 posts

All Forum Links Are Not Working :: 404 errors
Ning To Jamroom

Brian -

I will add the log entries into my troubleshooting checklist. I do my best to try to narrow things down, but I don't know what I don't know until I encounter it for the first time.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 10:36:27AM
752 posts

All Forum Links Are Not Working :: 404 errors
Ning To Jamroom

Thanks, Brian!

As I was waiting I was looking through older email and saw the notice about the custom module (if it works I hope it will be released to everyone as it is a useful admin tool). By the time I clicked on it the first time you'd already changed the module URL so it worked right off for me.

If I'd linked through to the module earlier I might have noticed the conflict but, by that time, I was reluctant to touch anything I was unfamiliar with.

There is the separate issue of the fatal PHP errors. Should I clear the log and take a regular look to see if they still reoccur?
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 10:05:53AM
752 posts

All Forum Links Are Not Working :: 404 errors
Ning To Jamroom 

{if jrCore_module_is_active('jrSearch')}


{if jrCore_module_is_active('jrSearch')}
   {jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="3" default="search" assign="st"}
   {$st}
{/if}

updated by @claygordon: 02/09/15 10:06:48AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 10:01:34AM
752 posts

All Forum Links Are Not Working :: 404 errors
Ning To Jamroom

I don't see it:

<div id="menu_content">
    <nav id="menu-wrap">
        <ul id="menu">

            {* Add in Cart link if jrFoxyCart module is installed *}
            {if jrCore_module_is_active('jrFoxyCart') && strlen($_conf.jrFoxyCart_api_key) > 0}
                <li>
                    {jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="2" default="cart" assign="cart"}
                    <a href="{$_conf.jrFoxyCart_store_domain}/cart?cart=view">{jrCore_image image="cart24.png" width="24" height="24" alt=$cart}</a>
                    <span id="fc_minicart"><span id="fc_quantity"></span></span>
                </li>
            {/if}

And it was working in the morning on Sunday the 8th - so not sure why the errors on the 7th are not seen on the 8th.
updated by @claygordon: 02/09/15 10:04:54AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/09/15 09:55:01AM
752 posts

All Forum Links Are Not Working :: 404 errors
Ning To Jamroom

I don't see any differences between the current header_menu_desktop and the last known prior working version using the compare tool. There were no visible changes made on Feb 8 that might have caused this to happen. Feb 7, yes - but Forums was not throwing errors on the 7th.
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