[Forum] Email headers from different areas of vB

[John Lester]

I'm curious as to why there are discrepancies in the email headers sent from different pages. I installed www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=138884 in order to get rid of the "dead weight" in regards to emails. After a week I noticed that the bounced emails had different headers that didn't allow me to use the mod to unsubscribe the bad email. So I sent a ticket to my host and after a few days they escalated it to tier 2 where they determined that it's an issue with how vB is sending the headers. Specifically forumdisplay.php and showthread.php.

The headers from forumdisplay.php are "complete" and allow the mod to function as designed. The headers from showthread.php are not complete therefore any bounced emails originating from that page can't be managed by the mod.

I thought this might be an issue with the mod, but the more I think about it the more I think it's a vB issue. Why on earth would you send different header information from different pages?

Attached is a copy of the headers sent by forumdisplay.php (good_bounce_header.txt) and showthread.php (bad_bounce_header1.txt). Is there an easy way to make showthread.php send the same header information?

good_bounce_header.txt bad_bounce_header1.txt

[Zachery]

We cannot provide support for modified software.
Does the same issue occur in the stock installation of the software?

[Wayne Luke]

maybe you can highlight the differences in the headers of the two files. Only differences I see are the process IDs which we have no control over and the script which simply indicates where the email was sent from.

[John Lester]

Aside from where the script came from the difference is that the forumdisplay headers have the ezbouncelink (bottom of page) in them while the showthread headers do not. Zach I do not know if this happens without the mod installed because for reasons unknown to me I never got bounced emails back before installing the mod.

[Wayne Luke]

Well the ezbouncelink would be added by your addon so you need to ask the addon author why it isn't added everywhere.

[John Lester]

Yea I have but he hasn't been around in quite awhile So just to clarify for myself, there is no difference in what information is sent in the headers between forumdisplay and showthread?

[Wayne Luke]

Nothing significant that would prevent things from working. The addon just needs to add its own link.

[John Lester]

I see. Thanks I'll see what I can do