You need a separate e-mail address for each sub-forum.

Btw, any updates on my previous post?

Thanks!

~ Crys ^^

I have a separate email address for each sub forum, it's not working :(

Mike

Hi I was wondering if anyone had a problem with html and this mod. Most of the emails I receive are in html and they post to my forum in plain text....anyone else have this problem and better yet has anyone found a solution.

Thanks

Ok, so it worked, it just took a day for the email to arrive for some reason, weird.

Mike

Is Cyricx around??

I'm having the same issue.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=430

Hope cyricx checks in soon.

DC

I recently had false hope that it was fixed as I received an email from the broken forum. Only none of the other three subscribed users received anything.

Mike

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=433

is still the problem, and if I sent an html email I always get the head of the mail posted:

Not sure if the Instant E-mail Integration supports this.
I want Vbulletin to send out an instant e-mail or daily digest for ANY new post or reply to a post. I don't want to rely on users going in and manually suscribing to each forum or thread. I need something that automatically subscribes them or allows the administrator to automatically subscribe all users. Why do I need this? Most users will not check the website regularly. An e-mail notification that there is new activity is essential for maintaining contact between with my users. Even if the mod just sent out an e-mail that says, there is a new post or reply on the forum. Is this possible with any of the mods?

This mod will do what you want. It sends out emails with the actual content of the posts. Your members can reply to that email and it will automatically post to your forum. In the usergroups settings, you can automatically subscribe new users to certain forums. Members subscribe to forums, not threads. Once subscribed to a forum they will get all posts in that forum by email.

I put together a tutorial for my members so they know how to use this system:
http://www.churchmedia.net/CMN/vbart...le&articleid=6

I've been using it for at least a month with little to no problems. It's ready for use on a live forum -- no problem.

Churchmedia, thanks for this tutorial website and your reply to my question.
It still seems from reading your tutorial that users must manually subscribe to each forum.
My users are too lazy to subscribe to each forum. I just want to be sure that I can manually subscribe both existing and new users either to all forums or even better selected forums.
Also is there an option for a daily digest? I am slightly concerned of floods of messages getting sent out. This still looks like a great feature and my appreciate to the people who developed this mod
Techman

There isn't a daily digest.

I've attached a screenshot from the usergroup settings. You can automatically assign forum subscriptions to groups when a member is assigned to a group. So if you want to subscribe your current members you will need to run an sql query. As far as a flood of emails, it really depends on if your server can handle it or not. I know if I subscribed all of my members there would be a revolt ;), but I think my server could handle it.

yep, looks like it could work me.
thank you for your time

Installation process seemed to go well, but I have two problems:

(1) When I select "Subscribe to this Forum" from the Forum Tools pull-down, I don't have the new instant notification option.

(2) Clicking on a post title now produces this error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/canyon/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 943

Hey Churchmedia -

Great tutorial for your users. I like the way you got the users to clean up their own excess code/content/gibberish until cyricx codes this into the mod.

I was wondering if you are able to get more than one forum to work. A few of us are having difficulty with this, and it seems from your forum that you have more than one working. If so, did you do something special?

Thanks,
dc

I haven't had any problems getting more than one forum to work. I just set up each forum one at a time. It took quite a while, but once you get a "system" down it goes faster. First I created an email address for the forum (using c-panel on my server), then filled in all of the info required on the forum edit page for the email integration. I had to remind myself to click yes to "Enable Email Integration for this forum?"

I didn't do anything special. My best guess is that there may be some server problems with some users. I have a dedicated server and can do whatever I want to with it. I know some shared servers have limitations.

Best of luck!

Did you fixed it ?

I've installed this lovely mod but i can't seem to be able to create thread or reply to a thread via email. I'm tried all the 6 different settings but doing without much luck. I'm sure i've got the settings right after having gone through all the posts for this mod. Any help offered will be deeply appreciated.

Wondering how long more do i have to wait to get an answer? :rolleyes:

I installed this MOD but m not able to under stand how to create mail box and which email address to use.

Can you explain it bit more in practical way. :)

You don't create the mailboxes through vBulletin or this mod. You use your site/server control panel (cPanel, Plesk, Ensim, etc.) to create email accounts. For instance, if you had a forum called "Member's Lounge" you could create an email account called lounge@yoursite.com. Then you would enter all the email account info when you edit your lounge forum.

So, you basically end up with a bunch of email addresses for your site/forums.

I hope that helps!

I have bought my email domain from Gmail. it's like admin@unitedpunjab.co.uk so can i create email address from my gmail (unitedpunjab.co.uk) account and then can add info about that in this hack.

And can you also tell me the proper settings What information i am going to need from a email account to fill out in ACP on vB.

Now these are the settings provided by google.

• For POP access, the incoming server is pop.gmail.com or pop.googlemail.com, and the outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com or smtp.googlemail.com.
• For IMAP access, the incoming server is imap.gmail.com or imap.googlemail.com, and the outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com or smtp.googlemail.com.

I have created a account for my domain.

but google is giving me different host names for sending and receiving mails on my domain.

Anybody can help me with this, please?

I really cannot believe this is the type of support i'm getting for this mod. I guess the best way now to resolve my problem is to uninstall this mod. So much so for this mod :mad:

It's not like this is my paying job ;)

I have an actual real paying day job, plus family, plus a not-for-profit organization that I do ALOT of volunteer time for :)

I've hit some major setbacks in the next version as well as we just went through the Samhain (halloween) holiday. For most people it may not be a big deal.. but for my personal religion it's our new years holiday :)

In anycase, I'm sorry if my time is limited and if the value of what your getting here for free is not up to your standards ;)



To address your specific problem..

Have you tried adjusting the "hostname of the above email" as detailed in the instructions? Most common settings for that field are:

localhost
ip address of your server
mail.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com

If all else fails, you may always send me a PM with admin access to your sites forum manager and scheduled task and I will trouble shoot your settings.

In the long run I'd love to write a script that scrolls through and tests all those settings to try to determine your settings for you, but that's dreaming big right now when I've got some huge projects in my lap for the not-for-profit that I need to hande first.

O and in regards to the gmail thing. There is some additional verification crap that google seems to require you to do. I haven't had a chance to dig into the code to address that issue yet :(

I'm still tryiing to beat the vbmail problem, so it's one monster at a time right now heh. :)

This is the reason why I hate to give people dates of planned releases.. cuz things always come up :o

Kube, do you use vbadvanced? The issue is in the url of your smilie. I'd suggest in the smilie manager correcting the url for the smilie to the true full url.

Other then that, I'd have to write a plugin for the bbcode manager to amend those urls. Hmm, that could be difficult...

I'll add this to my ponder list. In the meantime, correcting the smilies in your smilie manager to the full url would resolve this issue.

You must have a separate mailbox for EACH forum.

For example if you have the following forums running this mod

Political Talk Forum
General Discussion Forum
Jokes Forum

You'd have to have an email box setup and assigned for each such as:

politicaltalk@yourdomain.com
generaldiscussion@yourdomain.com
jokes@yourdomain.com

This is so that the code can process and assign new threads correctly.

Thanks for taking your precious time to reply, finally. I've already uninstalled the mod that i've installed with much excitement at first. I like your reasons and i understand your predicaments.

Just like many other mods i've installed, the coder don't get paid for what they've done and as a free user, i definitely appreciate their efforts and time, and i'm not asking or begging for extremely prompt reply. All I can say is others are just doing a much better job.

I rest my case here. I can live without this mod anyway. Good luck.

*shrug*

Personally, I think replying within 1 week is doing pretty damn good :)

Does anyone know if this plays nice with VBSEO?

Hey, I'm glad to field a few questions. That's what "community" is all about!

I'm running VBSEO. No problems.

Blessed Be! ;)

My forum has evolved out of a Yahoogroups and this sounds like it will let people post via email which many of my members miss!

Do you think this mod is ready for prime time? Should I wait for the next version?

Thanks for your answer to this and for all your good work that you have shared with us!

Barry

Glitterkill -
I had vbseo running side by side with one of the earlier versions and didn't notice any side effect issues at all :)

Bchertov -
As to if this mod is ready for prime time... that's hard to say. Some are experiencing odd issues with it. Others are having no problems at all! I'm definately working to try to fix those problems as time allows.. but truthfully, I can't give a definitive date on when the next version will be out.

I just discovered that vbmail doesn't like to run from a cron job as an html email when a & is involved.. yeah.. that's gonna be a doozy to fix heh. :)

But yeah, evolving from yahoogroups was the entire purpose for this modification :)


ChurchMedia - You Rock!!! :)

Could you post more info to tell us how you sorted it out

Thanks

Great mod. Really appreciate all the effort. Will contribute soon. I was able to install and also got email when someone replied. Then when I replied, i was expecting the email to show up as a reply in the thread after 10 minutes. But I have not seen it yet. My question -
Did I screw up something during installation ? I am not still not sure where I enabled the cron job. Does the script have the cron functionality or do I have to enable it in the c-panel of my site.

Does the script only verify with the email address or name also. Because in this case names do not match between vbulletin forum site and yahoo account, but emails match and hence i got the email.

Oh one more thing, in the email I received when someone replied, i see in the brackets - [forumname-t-321] ....is that normal.

thanks.
jc

This is something planned for down the line. :)


For your host name try, localhost, mail.yourdomain.com, yourdomain.com or your IP address for your server. I really want to create a script that will have you input a few of these different variables and then it'll run through a list and try to determine your settings for you. But that is also.. on my to-do list :(



It only checks the email address. And then matches that up to your user's email address. So they have to send the email from the same email address that they have associated with their username on your forums. :)

The 10 minutes thing is based on activity. Vbulletin only runs cron jobs when the forum is active. This is because the variable to run the cron jobs is actually located in the footer template. So if noone is visiting your forums.. the cron jobs.. and the email integration won't run.

Basically.. it'll run a maximum of 10 minutes if your board is constantly active. Otherwise it will wait to run til the next time someone is visiting. The best way to understand this is to open up two windows. One is to your forums. and the other is the admincp, scheduled tasks.

Do this after the board has been quiet for a few hours. What you will see when you first login is a bunck of tasks that are past the time they were supposed to run. Each time you click on a different page on the site, one of the tasks will run that are waiting to run.

thanks Chris. I finally found that we need to run the cron job manually first time through scheduled tasks manager in admincp. My problem is that when I do that, I get an error
- unable to open the stream. So basically cron script has trouble logging into the mail system and downloading the emails. I tried all 6 settings but no luck.

-thanks.
dslv

Email Integration

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {mail.mysite.com:993/pop3/ssl}INBOX in /includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 111

Warning: imap_headers(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in /includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 114

Warning: imap_close(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in /includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 1213

Done