Please don't immediately disable accounts when a hard bounce arrives

[Steffen]

Automatically disabling a user account when a hard bounce arrives sounds good in theory but fails in practice. I just had to manually re-enable several dozen accounts that were affected by Gmail's ****-up. I remember having done this for other providers, too.

Background info: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/BouncesAndListsToday

I think XenForo should treat hard-bounces like it treats soft-bounces. Maybe "All threshold values are limited to bounces generated in the last 30 days." could be adjusted to 90 days in return.

 

[Xon]

Part of the issue is XenForo confuses an account having bounced email with the user life-cycle state (aka user state).

The bounce state really should be to be separate from the general user state.