Major Additions - Email Integration (New threads/replies by email) [Archive] - Page 5

kevinh

07-17-2009, 07:04 AM

Hi Chris,

Ive had EI installed on a small forum for quite a while and found it made a significant difference in participation rates, particularly as most of the users were accustomed to an old style mail list.

The only problem is I have a couple of users who regularly edit the reply email and/or try to use quote tags but stuff it up, the result being very messy emails going out to the subscribers and me having to tidy up the posts on the web site.

I would like to have the posts from these users moderated. I have created another usergroup which requires posts to be moderated but when someone in the group posts using EI the post still goes out to the subscribers and still gets published in the forum.

It seems to bypass the moderation requirement. Any ideas why?

Cyricx

07-17-2009, 03:41 PM

At the time of writing this I hadn't figured out how to require the moderation. It's going to take alot of rework as right now the cron file checks the emails, sends the post and sends the emails out.

I'll have to separate those steps, but it's in the plans and in the works.

One of the parts of the next version will be hopefully getting it to work with moderation.

Also, it'll be using the php pear package for mail mime decode so that should help clean things up as well.

kevinh

07-18-2009, 02:58 AM

At the time of writing this I hadn't figured out how to require the moderation. It's going to take alot of rework ....

Thanks for responding so quickly. Looking forward to seeing the new version in due course.

Kevin

toivo

09-23-2009, 06:10 AM

lbernstein

09-25-2009, 06:50 PM

I'm running EI ver 2.6.1 on 3.8.2. EI is the only mod on the system and was installed months ago. In the last few days I've had 3 posts that will duplicate themselves when posted to the forum (and emailed out). The only change to the system is an occasional error 2006 due to some SQL issues on my host's side. No other changes to the board have occurred for months.

I know there was a problem with duplicate emails in the past that I thought was cleared up in the most recent release.

Any ideas why?

angeljs

10-01-2009, 03:06 PM

Hi, this mod seems perfect for my site, but when trying to set it up I receive the following error:

Gateway Time-out

The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I'm presuming it's more to do with my server than your mod? :(

jdj

10-06-2009, 01:34 PM

Hi there. Another newbie here.

You're all ahead of me here. So far I've installed CyricX original version and I'm excited by the idea. What happens to me though is that we put a test post onto the forum, we get the notification and test reply, the cron picks up the reply and sends back to the forum. Then the same reply goes back and forth in a loop. Now I'm guessing it must be something I've stuffed up in installing due to my ignorance and inexperience but if anyone has any clues that would be helpful. :)

toivo

10-06-2009, 09:39 PM

The EI reads each message from the mailbox and then deletes it, therefore messages are not posted more than once. However, if you turn the debug switch on in the beginning of emailintegration.php, messages are not deleted.

Did you create a new mailbox for your forum? It is essential to have a separate mailbox for each forum.

jdj

10-07-2009, 02:26 PM

Yes I set up a separate dedicated domain and mailbox specifically for the emails to and from the forum. Emails go to the mailbox, cron picks them up and posts back to forum, then it just keeps going around in a loop. I'm not using 3.6 though, I'm using 3.8.2 at present. Don't know whether that makes a difference. Guessing it's a mistake I've made somewhere.

I'll go back and check the debug thing. Thanks for the idea.

lbernstein

10-07-2009, 04:01 PM

My duplicates are very random and don't seem to happen in any particular forum or associated with any individual user. Just had another this morning and had to lock off the thread. Not sure how to troubleshoot this problem. I don't think I checked off the debug option when installing, and not sure how to check that at this point.

angeljs

10-09-2009, 06:42 AM

Hi Kevin,

Here is the code, working under vB 3.6.8. Replace the variables $forum_url and $cron_url.

The script reads the home page, extracts the cron.php with the parameters from the result and then sends a request for cron.php which runs the scheduled task(s).

Check the results from the vB back end to adjust the interval in your crontab or Windows scheduler, depending on which other cron jobs your site has.

<?php
/**
* @forum_read.php
* @20080723 toivo@totaldata.biz
* reads the forum home page and triggers cron jobs to run
* tested on vBulletin 3.6.8.
* requires php >= 4.3.0
*/

$forum_url = 'http://example.com/testvb/index.php';
// cron url from <img src=
$cron_url = 'http://example.com/testvb/cron.php?';

// access forum
$run_status = forum_read($forum_url, $cron_url);
return;

function forum_read($forum_url, $cron_url) {
// read file contents
$page = file_get_contents($forum_url);
if ($page === false) {
$msg = "forum_read.php unable to read ".$forum_url;
error_log($msg);
return false;
}
// find cron.php
$cron_start_pos = strpos($page, $cron_url);

$msg = '';
if ($cron_start_pos === false) {
$msg = "forum_read.php unable to find cron string";
error_log($msg);
return false;
}

// end of url
$cron_end_pos = strpos($page, '"', $cron_start_pos);
if ($cron_end_pos === false) {
$msg = "forum_read.php unable to find end of cron string";
error_log($msg);
return false;
}
// extract full url string with cron.php
$cron_url_length = $cron_end_pos - $cron_start_pos;
$cron_full_url = substr($page, $cron_start_pos, $cron_url_length );
// read cron.php with parameters
$page = file_get_contents($cron_full_url);
if ($page === false) {
$msg = 'forum_read.php '.$cron_full_url." : - PROBLEM?";
error_log($msg);
return false;
}
return true;
}
?>

If you are going to run it from Unix/Linux, a shell script similar to the following can be scheduled to run from a crontab entry:

#!/bin/bash
# load forum home page and read cron.php
php /root/forum_read/forum_read.php
exit 0

In Windows, you can run the script from a command file through the Windows scheduler.

Regards,
toivo

So would I have to set this up as a seperate cron job? Which command would I use for the cron and how often would it have to run? I'm a cron newbie, so any help would be appreciated. ;)

toivo

10-09-2009, 08:14 AM

Assuming that you are going to run the shell script which runs the PHP command line script, you need to create a new job in crontab. Details of the syntax can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#crontab_syntax

You may want to run the PHP script once every 5 to 15 minutes and experiment with the speed of response which also depends on the frequency that the Email Integration job in the Scheduled Task Manager in vBulletin has been set to run.

angeljs

10-10-2009, 06:16 AM

Ok, thanks for all the help...I'll give it a go :)

lbernstein

11-09-2009, 03:42 PM

HELP!!!
I''m once again having duplicate messages going out. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot the problem. Can anyone help?

amphicar770

12-03-2009, 05:45 PM

Will this mod be ported to VB4.0? I can not updgrade before that time or I will have a user revolt on my hands!!

AyeCapn

12-03-2009, 06:00 PM

Will this mod be ported to VB4.0? I can not upgrade before that time or I will have a user revolt on my hands!!I'm in the same boat with this and a few other mods. It's become core functionality fora group of my users.

amphicar770

12-08-2009, 02:01 PM

toivo

01-20-2010, 09:04 PM

Will this mod be ported to VB4.0?
Looks like Cyricx has not been on-line here since September

Check out today's post by Cyricx at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=169247&page=15.

I am happy to contribute, I have produced a couple of fixes and also cloned the EI Mod plugins to support moderated forums: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=151222&page=67

toivo

02-11-2010, 08:28 PM

A patch for moderated forums tested with 3.8.4 is now available from https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1980256

Toivo

rlopez

02-15-2010, 06:35 PM

toivo

02-27-2010, 08:29 PM

Here is a rough quick-fix of patches to EI Mod to support moderated forums, cloned from the existing code of EI Mod. The patch modifies emailintegration.php and two of its plugins, adds two custom hooks to moderate.php and installs a product with four plugins.

In limited testing under 3.6.8 this patch allowed moderation from the Admin Control Panel, Moderator Control Panel and also inline moderation :)Please note that the 3.8.4 version of this patch (at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1980256 post #234) incorrectly adds the signature of the original author of the thread to moderated replies sent by email, instead of the signature of the poster of the reply.

As a workaround, you can remove the signature from the email template for replies. The users seem to have a signature in their emails in any case. I am using the old format - by popular demand.

gamingaccess

02-28-2010, 04:32 PM

Looks like Cyricx has not been on-line here since September. That is not a good sign!!

I can only ibegin to imagine the time and skill that must go into developing something like this mod. I made 2-3 contributions over the past 2 years. I do hope other users have done the same, it is critical to encouraging continued development and support.

So do you know if this plugin or a similar plugin is developed for new latest versions of vBulletin?

vBulletin 3.8 continues to release patches and updates, and vBulletin 4 was released.

I will really like to know if there is a similar plugin like this in active development

Thanks a lot

toivo

03-10-2010, 10:51 PM

I have this mod installed and have modified it to work with moderation. When a moderator approves a post the emails are being sent using the mailqueue. There are roughly 700 users who are setup for instant email notification for the forum. My site is then slow and unresponsive until all the emails in the mailqueue have been sent.

Has anyone had similar issue or possible fixes? I did not see any previous posts relating to this but might have missed them considering there are 60+ pages of posts on this threadI run this mod with my moderation patch in one unmoderated and one moderated forum under vB 3.8.4. I noticed the same slowness with 200 users, email batch size 100. After our mail proxy server (MailEnable free version) rejected 16 valid addresses without giving an error code, I reduced the batch size to 20 and have not seen rejections since. The site also seemed to become responsive again quicker after the moderated message has been approved.

jdj

04-16-2010, 04:45 PM

I'm running 4.0.3.

Any news on if this mod will be developed for 4.0.3?

Jah-Hools

04-25-2010, 08:33 PM

Could moderators or admin somehow use this as an admin accessible only feature?

To help them admin / moderate quickly via email? (mobile phones, avoiding using the browser)

I daydream that might have minimal server load - and keep the rest of the membership looking at banner ads etc..

Anyone doing that..?

Selective user groups and forums only..?

Sort of a VIP only service?

Thanks in advance..

jdj

05-05-2010, 10:06 AM

My interest in this is because the people who use vbulletin.org or vbulletin.com are not representative of people in the wider world. Lots of those people can just about use an email client and email and a mod like this would be a stepping stone into online forums, to get them engaged with something better. Also, lots of people now use handhelds of one sort or another that are quite capable of dealing with email and SMS, even though browsing on them is much less of a positive experience than browsing from a netbook, laptop or desktop of some kind, especially if you are using mobile broadband, which is often slow meaning that pages load slowly even if you can send and receive emails. So the option to be able to contribute to an online discussion you are interested in wherever you are is still a way of keeping people engaged with you.

vilhiem

05-18-2010, 06:22 PM

Any news on whether this will work with vB4 ...?

Thanks!

jdj

05-19-2010, 08:56 AM

I have previously asked the same question. I tried it with 3.8.4, couldn't quite get it to work consistently, then moved to vB4. I contacted the developer who sent me a polite and apologetic reply along the lines of him having to develop other more popular mods first. I don't think the issues were insurmountable; it was something to do with email parsing.

skippybosco

09-04-2010, 11:54 AM

Perhaps we can pool resources and pay to get the issues resolved by the developer to ensure support for vB4+

BigJohnny

09-05-2010, 11:25 AM

does anyone have this fully working on 3.8?

I installed the 2.6.1 version a while ago, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why it won't pull emails from the inbox and post them back to the board.....that's the ONLY problem I'm having.

jdj

09-07-2010, 01:55 PM

Perhaps we can pool resources and pay to get the issues resolved by the developer to ensure support for vB4+

I made a contribution to the developer earlier this year. Spring I think, sometime ago anyway. He was then busy updating his other mods. I'm still interested in this but if you make a contribution how do you know that anyone will actually produce something or when? This isn't meant as critical...the replies I got from the developer were both polite and friendly. I just made a contribution to indicate that I was interested.

I did wonder whether I should try something else. Somebody said to me recently that php bb and Wordpress both support email contributions. I don't know whether that's true or not but I remain interested in allowing users to contribute to my board via email. I did wonder whether there was anyway to deploy vB4 alongside wordpress or phpbb as a kind of dummy system alongsided vB4 allowing users who wanted to contribute from remote to contribute to the same database.

skippybosco

09-17-2010, 11:26 AM

I made a contribution to the developer earlier this year. Spring I think, sometime ago anyway. He was then busy updating his other mods. I'm still interested in this but if you make a contribution how do you know that anyone will actually produce something or when? This isn't meant as critical...the replies I got from the developer were both polite and friendly. I just made a contribution to indicate that I was interested.

I did wonder whether I should try something else. Somebody said to me recently that php bb and Wordpress both support email contributions. I don't know whether that's true or not but I remain interested in allowing users to contribute to my board via email. I did wonder whether there was anyway to deploy vB4 alongside wordpress or phpbb as a kind of dummy system alongsided vB4 allowing users who wanted to contribute from remote to contribute to the same database.

Worse case I'll see if the developer is ok with a split of his Mod to a 4.0 compatible by another developer. That might be a quicker way to go.

amphicar770

09-23-2010, 07:01 PM

Perhaps we can pool resources and pay to get the issues resolved by the developer to ensure support for vB4+

Over the past year or so I send at least two donations in hopes that it would inspire the developer to release a 4.0 version.

At this point it does seem like he has abandoned the effort. Perhaps he will release the code to the public domain and someone else will pick it up.

Like others, this is keeping me from upgrading to 4.0. Unfortunately, the VB team keeps telling us that we do not need this feature!

washingtonboise

11-09-2010, 10:33 PM

Perhaps we can pool resources and pay to get the issues resolved by the developer to ensure support for vB4+

Agreed, in fact I am seeing a need for some kind of resource pooling for other plugins as well.
If vbulletin.org could implement widgets such as 'pledgie', that could give authors the ability to put a price on development, e.g. "I will develop this for version 4.x as soon as $500 is raised, so far $320 has been raised (updated automatically). Click here to make a donation."

Money talks and it works. Fundage is a primary reason we don't see more free but critical and highly valued stuff getting maintained, or why it gets updated very slowly. Communism has great ideals, but poor work ethic. Capitalism is the path to progress.

At the very least, authors could even link to their website and host their own donation widgets (hint).

frankR

02-19-2011, 02:00 PM

I'd like this mod for 4.x as well.

I'm converting from an email group to a forum and many users aren't happy. This email option would help.

kevinh

02-20-2011, 02:14 AM

I used Email Integration successfully on a 3.x site when migrating people from an old fashoined mail list. It served it's purpose well, but a year or so down the track we have now turned it off because it does have it's drawbacks. These include server load and the inability to moderate posts by email. Also, having a new post automatically go out to all subscribers almost immediately after the post can be a real problem if the post is innappropriate or spam. There's also a bit of an admin overhead because people don't understand how it works and are incapable of following instructions :)

I don't use vB 4, I'm still on 3.6, but I have just found another solution. I installed this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203358&highlight=sorky which adds an RSS feed to each forum and sub forum, (this may already exist in vB 4.x)

My site has a primary level forum (which doesn't actually act as a forum), then about 8 sub forums. So I republish the RSS feed for the primary/parent forum as an email "newsletter" through feedblitz.com and give our forum members the link to the Feedblitz sign up page for the email newsletter. You can tell Feedblitz to check for new posts in the RSS feed daily, 8 hourly, 4 hourly or "express" which is the most frequent. Every time there is a new post in one or more of the sub forums the subscribers get an email.

With the users' permission you can import them as subscribers into your Feedblitz account.

There is unfortunately a cost for using Feedblitz depending upon the number of susbcribers. A free alternative (the on free one I know if) is Feedburner.com (owned by Google) however that only provides a daily email to subscribers.

I hope this helps.

jdj

02-21-2011, 05:20 PM

Q. "....So I republish the RSS feed for the primary/parent forum as an email "newsletter" through feedblitz.com and give our forum members the link to the Feedblitz sign up page for the email newsletter."

Not sure this would work for me because it's being able to reply by email that my users are asking for. I suspect it would cause issues but I wouldn't want it on all forums....

kevinh

02-21-2011, 08:59 PM

Not sure this would work for me because it's being able to reply by email that my users are asking for. I suspect it would cause issues but I wouldn't want it on all forums....

Ok, so the RSS solution wouldn't help you, although if users are interested enough they will come to your forums to contribute.

You can enable EI for specific forums, but bear in mind there are other issues. One is that many people who are accustomed to a mail list will never come to the forums site, they only communicate with the site by email. Also EI does not work well when people try to post by email from a smart phone (i.e iPhone or Blackberry).

For some reason with iPhone mail EI cannot determine where the new post ends, so you will find that people will post their new message followed by the message they received by email. There are also character and formatting issues. Here's an example; http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/bristol-ephemera/379-bristol-cars-engines.html#post2444

I was forever "tidying" posts up, otherwise the problem just snowballs when more people post by email.

Also, I found that the ability to post by email encourages people to make stupid posts, probably because it's just so easy to do.

People sometimes accidentally create a new thread by email when replying to an existing thread (because they change the subject line so EI doesn't know to append the post to an existing thread).

So EI has it's pros and cons. It may be a moot point anyway unless you can find someone to develop it for vB 4.x :)

misticjeff

02-28-2011, 08:28 PM

Hi Guys,

I read through about 20 pages of this thread but cannot find an answer and don't have the patience to go through the other 50 pages.

My issues:

Got the mod working last night, tested it and it worked.

Then another admin posted a reply via email and for the past 6 or so hours, that post continues to repeat itself over and over, emailing itself.

Second issue is that i've tried starting a thread by emailing it and it does not seem to be working.

Any suggestions??

Thanks

kevinh

02-28-2011, 09:26 PM

First problem (repeat messages) is almost certainly due to messages being left in the forum mail box. If you are using IMAP in "Email Reply Integration Settings" (in Forum settings) - try switching to POP.

Beforehand however, you might want to go into the mailbox using a web client and delete the exisitng messages so you don't further irritate your subscribers :)

Can't suggest anything for the second problem, other than checking that the message is actually making it into the forum inbox and obviously making sure the sender address is that of a registered user with appropriate permissions.

misticjeff

03-01-2011, 01:51 AM

In the forum settings, I had it set to POP... I just tried setting it to IMAP. We'll see what happens.

Regarding the second issue, I'm sending a start new thread email using an approved account, it's going into the mailbox setup for the forum in question but not actually starting a new thread.

Any ideas?

Cyricx

05-17-2011, 08:14 PM

mistic, I remember this bug occuring awhile back on my site as well. I thought I had eliminated it in the public release. I'll have to compare code versions to see, but what I remember is that something was causing the processing of script to halt after it had loaded the message to the forum, but hadn't deleted the email. In the next version I'll be saving it to a temporary database table and immediately deleting it to fix but I'll see if I made a quick fix in the 3.6/3.7 code for it. An immediate fix is to go in to your mailbox and delete that hanging message.

A heads up for all I'll be working on this in the next few days to come and dig over what others have found and what I can figure out to get a new release for vb4 sent out.

There is no plans to continue the 3.6 and 3.7 once I've got the 4.x working.

Bob Ricci

05-17-2011, 08:30 PM

What versions will this mod work with? We've been patiently waiting...

Cyricx

05-17-2011, 08:47 PM

I'll be primarily focusing on 4.x

From what I've heard and read that is the most requested.

LarryPreheim

06-17-2011, 08:27 PM

Do you have an updated patch for USERCP_SHELL?

I am running 4.1.3 The edit area now looks like:
<ul class="blockrow">
<li class="{vb:raw navclass.substhreads_listthreads}"><a href="{vb:link subscription, '', 'do=viewsubscription'}">{vb:rawphrase list_subscriptions}</a></li>
<li class="{vb:raw navclass.substhreads_editfolders}"><a href="{vb:link subscription, '', 'do=editfolders'}">{vb:rawphrase edit_folders}</a></li>
</ul>

Thank you.

Cyricx

06-22-2011, 02:39 PM

That's actually the part that is kickin my butt right now in the upgrade to 4.x

ahobilam

08-25-2011, 02:36 PM

Can anybody tell me, will it work with VB 4.1.5?
or
any other latest mod like this.
I installed it and got Database error.
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1315) : eval()'d code on line 135

Later I uninstalled it, now my forum is working.
Please help.
nvs

phinphan

08-26-2011, 07:36 PM

That's actually the part that is kickin my butt right now in the upgrade to 4.x

Chris - any luck on this. I emailed you about it and will be happy to underwrite some/all of the cost if it can be done. This has become a huge issue on my forum and we are contemplating rewritting the whole site in Drupal or biting the bullet and spending an arm and a leg on Fusetalk which has this already.

bumper2011

01-05-2012, 09:18 AM

hi everyone, may I have your help & advice? I have configured & tested the email integration feature. I did receive email when there is new post in the forum. However, there is no reply post if I replied the email with content.

I have enabled the log in Scheduled Task Manager, and tried with a few runs. the log just show "Email Integration results Opened mailbox for <MYFORUM> Invalid email @" or "Email Integration results Opened mailbox for <MYFORUM> No messages found for <MYFORUM>"

I think the "no message" in log is regarded as normal as it deletes the message after grabbing. But why does it say "Invalid email"? what is the possibility of the problem?

thanks.

bumper2011

01-05-2012, 01:21 PM

this "invalid email" error happens when I use an Exchange 2010 mail account for the forum email integration. But I have just tested with Gmail IMAP, it works. Could anyone help on this? Thanks a lot.

hi everyone, may I have your help & advice? I have configured & tested the email integration feature. I did receive email when there is new post in the forum. However, there is no reply post if I replied the email with content.

I have enabled the log in Scheduled Task Manager, and tried with a few runs. the log just show "Email Integration results Opened mailbox for <MYFORUM> Invalid email @" or "Email Integration results Opened mailbox for <MYFORUM> No messages found for <MYFORUM>"

I think the "no message" in log is regarded as normal as it deletes the message after grabbing. But why does it say "Invalid email"? what is the possibility of the problem?

thanks.

bumper2011

01-14-2012, 05:14 AM

ok, i set to use POP and working now with the Exchange server.

digeditor

02-04-2012, 08:35 PM

I'm trying to make this work in vb 4.1.10.
However when I run the script to check for errors it gives the following messages:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_wysiwyg.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 40

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/homepages/41/d397870833/htdocs/includes/functions_wysiwyg.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php5') in /homepages/41/d397870833/htdocs/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 40

which I think means that there is no wysiwyg.php file. I check the includes dir and sure enough that file doesn't exist. It wasn't in the BETA zip file either. Can someone point me to it?

Jim

jdj

02-06-2012, 01:23 PM

there is no wysiwyg.php file. I check the includes dir and sure enough that file doesn't exist. It wasn't in the BETA zip file either. Can someone point me to it?

I gave up on this mod, although I'd still be interested if it worked. I haven't checked but have you looked for a functions_wysiwyg.php file as opposed to a wysiwyg.php file?

digeditor

02-12-2012, 05:09 PM

I've checked every directory in the install. Doesn't seem to be there. :(

Any other ideas?

tdarvill

02-13-2012, 01:38 PM

For 4.x it appears the "functions_wysiwyg.php" file is no longer present.
Have you tried editing emailintegration.php to use "functions_editor.php" instead?
Not sure if this is the right fix however.

digeditor

02-15-2012, 05:08 PM

Thanks. I tried that. I guess it worked. Now some of my listserv's posts are showing up so it looks like whatever was the problem, this was the cure!!?

I think the problem for the rest of them not showing up is unrelated, more likely that I haven't loaded those users into the forum yet.

digeditor

02-15-2012, 05:32 PM

After I installed this Mod, when someone attempt to register for my forum it becomes impossible as they get the form overlaid with all of the following and the entry fields become unusable:

Username is valid and not in use.

Please enter the name by which you would like to log-in and be known on this site.

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Please enter a password for your user account. Note that passwords are case-sensitive.

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If someone can point me to where all this comes from, I'll attempt to solve the problem.

TIA

reedness

07-26-2012, 07:00 PM

Has anybody had any luck with 4.2.0?

ahobilam

08-09-2012, 02:13 PM

I also seeking such mod for 4.2.x
Please inform if anybody got succeeded!

neil00027

08-09-2012, 02:24 PM

I also would be keen to use this mod if it was updated for 4.2.x

Cyricx can we persuade you back to do some work on it?

washingtonboise

09-12-2012, 10:09 AM

Offering $300 for viable, 4.x update without bugs. Who wants to join in by offering a collective bounty in the section for developer requests? Together, we can make it worth their time.

Cyrix, original post mentions donation to continue your work/support. Is that offer still viable?

Notice. The administration of vbulletin.org is going to lock posting to version 3.7 and lower (https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/406853-Legacy-vBulletin-Versions-and-Support?goto=newpost) forums. If you care about reply by email for 4.x, then you've got to act now and show you're serious. This thread is going to get locked.

I have started a new thread here for vbulletin 4.x reply by email addon (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2364758#post2364758).

I am also contacting Cyrix so he's aware that I would like him to keep providing support or give permission for updating the code which he modified from Colin to get this working in 3.x.

filipo

09-20-2012, 02:24 PM

I'd be happy to support this as a paid mod. BTW, for some reason I can't post a reply to the new 4.x thread.

unfv

09-28-2012, 02:59 PM

I see that the last update was on 29 Feb 2008, so it seems to be unsupported, but, do you know if it will be compatible with VB5?

digeditor

09-29-2012, 08:54 PM

I believe I have this working in 4.2 (you can send that $300 to.... :-> )

However, I'm struggling with the parameters to use in the Forum Manager and in trying to get the email settings to work

Here's what it says in the original writeup:

In your forummanager use the following settings:

email address to reply to: username@gmail.com
hostname: pop.gmail.com
username: username@gmail.com
password: password
Type of connection: select "POP3 with SSL (Self signed certificate)"

my forum is hosted at 1and1.com so here's what I believe I should be entering:

email address to reply to: answerline@diganswerline.org
hostname: pop.1and1.com
username:answerline@diganswerline.org
password: password

I don't see the SSL option anywhere:
Type of connection: select "POP3 with SSL (Self signed certificate)" I have it set as POP3

I've also tried every combination of 1and1.com and diganswerline.org with no success.

Here's what I get when I test it with the email integrations Forum Settings Help

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {diganswerline.org:110/pop3/notls}INBOX in [path]/admincp/admin_ei_search_settings.php on line 132

Which makes sense as 1and1 wants it to be pop.1and1.com not diganswerline.org as the hostname

When I replace it with 1and1 I get:

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {1and1.com:110/pop3/notls}INBOX in [path]/admincp/admin_ei_search_settings.php on line 132

Yes I have looked to see if IMAP is on by going to Admincp-> Maintenence -> View PHP Info
The IMAP block shows up as c client version = 2007 and SSL and kereros support as "Enabled"

Any ideas what I'm not doing?

Jim