As mentioned try fiddling with the name of your host server :)

Try:

localhost
mail.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com
your IP address

For some mail systems you may need to have the username be the full email address.

Try that and you should find the resolution :)

Chris,

I sent you a PM. Basically I am not able to make it work. Let me know if you need access to my site's admincp.

thanks.
JC

Responded :)

PM me the details and I'll hop in and trouble shoot it :)

Looks like I resolved this problem.

In this instance the person had put in the username as:

username+mydomain.com

once the + symbol was changed to a @ the Done message came up on the scheduled task manager :)

I still have some issues. Sorry to bother you so much. I sent you a PM.
thanks.
jc

Also one more question, do we require vbulletin version 3.6.8 for this mod to work. Mine is running 3.6..4 ?

Anyway I upgraded to 3.6.8, but still cannot get that elusive "done" message when "run now" is clicked.
Wonder how you were able to run it.

Hi Cyricx,

Any possibility the e-mail integration system would work without having all this html coding showing in the posts? For example, I keep getting this:

BODY { FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif } TABLE { MARGIN-TOP: 1em; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66 } TD { FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif } TH { FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif }

Just wish it would convert that into BB code so that it's seamless when it's posted on the forum.

Thanks!

~ Crys ^^

It seems it ran. God knows how because whenever I said "run now" it just did not do anything. But I saw a message in the log today where it put some log messages saying "no access to post"..

Email Integration 07:32, 18th Nov 2007 Email Integration results No access to post sundar No access to post tom No access to post jerry No access to post tom No access to post
paul

All these users have enabled "get instant email notifications" in subscribe forum dialog.
Also their usergroups have been added to forum's email integration configuration part.

Any ideas.

thanks in advance.
jc

EDIT: I had wrong usergroup ids entered in the forum's email intergration configurations.

I've got this fixed in the next version. I'm hoping to get a few of the other bugs fixed before releasing it though and that's takin me a bit of time. :(

Worst case scenario I may just clean up the coede and release what I've got fixed so far.

I'll be travelling outta town this week though and have some huge tasks at work to do in december, so I really can't offer an ETA on the fix :( :( I'll see what I can do though.

I've read all these threads, and I understand that you have a job, a family, a non-profit org, etc. ahead of shaking out the bugs in this mod.

Truly, with all respect, I would suggest you call this BETA in the title. I, and other have run into more time consuming problems from installing this before it's really ready for prime time.

I have spent hours trying to get this to work, and in the end, am still having the same issues I had in my last post here, so I'm going to uninstall it. I will be reinstall it if/when you finish it, as it is a great idea, and will be a great addition someday.

In the meantime, I hope you consider adding "Beta" to the title in the same way that Colin F did in his vB Mail Reply. He calls his 0.7 BETA, which alerts us to expect challenges. When I saw your v2.2 I was expecting a lot more.

Thanks for your work, and hope to be using it someday.

.02,
DC

Hi,

I think doubleclick's ida is good. Cyrix has done a great job. But more may be needed. to make it a stable rock solid product.

-jc

I'm inclined to agree, so I've made the changes mentioned.

Thanks DC!

Hey,

There was a post on my forum using the mod. great work. One question, when someone replies to a thread, how does the code match reply to an existing thread and posts in that thread, rather then creating a new thread.

thanks.
jc

Hi, Chris.

I've been watching this hack with great interest.

I think you've done a great job and overall I'm impressed with the support and community interaction.

I'm wondering if this mod covers forums where moderation is required.

Currently if you have the email notification on under forums and moderation, regardless of whether it requires moderation or not as soon as the thread is posted those in the notification section are notified.

Does your hack comply to moderation rules. Meaning if a post is added to a activated room, where moderation is required will users be notified after or before the thread is moderated?

Thanks.

Well, it has two catches in it. There is a header line in the emails that retains the postid number. And then in the subject line of the email is the postid number. The one in the header isn't working as solid as I'd like. It doesn't always correctly grab the parentid for hybrid and threaded modes. Once it's solid I'll remove the postid from the subject lines of the emails. If there is no postid in the header or subject line, it considers the post a newthread and processes it as such :) This let's people send fresh emails to the mailbox to start new threads :)


It currently does not take into account moderation. This is another reason why I agreed with moving this to a beta mod.

I need to do some reading and studying on the moderation system to determine how the system does that. It might be something simple, or complex, not sure yet :)

Also, I want to figure out the forumpassword stuff. I want to come up with a system so that forums that have a password can process emails. I'm not yet sure how I'm going to do that without it being very inconvienant for the user.



I really do have full intentions of completeing and finishing out this modification. This is one of the things that I personally feel that vbulletin is truly lacking to be competitive.

The issue is that I have 3 large projects that have to be completed before I can continue on this :(

Heh, that's fine. Knowing that you're working to find the solution already shows progress - and that's saying a lot since a lot of hacks here are not as supported as claimed. Well, I may not be a great coder but I do have an eye for things so let me list out what would be the most ideal version:

- Take all HTML from the e-mail and transfers it to bb-code hence allowing the user to still format text in bold, different fonts, etc..

- Providing us with a way to customize the bottom section of the e-mail (in case we want to leave a more personal message that's more suited to fit our forum)

- Instead of a new e-mail for every post, allow the user to choose whether or not they want an e-mail for every post or a compilation of e-mails once a week or daily. (a new e-mail per post may upset users, especially if the forum is incredibly busy)

-----

That's all I can think of for now. Please understand that I'm not making demands or anything of the sort. All I'm trying to do is provide enough feedback so you can continue to improve this function. Personally, I believe this is one of the most useful hacks to date but it's still in the beginning stages. Of course I'm sure the ideal setting will take time due to real life stuff but, at least, I want you to be aware of what I'm hoping you achieve in the near future.

Thank you so much for getting back to me and I'm glad you also found the minor hiccup I encountered. Good luck and I look forward to seeing your latest release. In the meantime, I'll still use your hack because I do find it quite useful, even though it's not perfect yet.

If you're US based, have a great holiday weekend and enjoy Thanksgiving!

~ Crys ^^

Chris,

I found the cause of why we get blank screen when "run now" is clicked on scheduled task page for email integration. Everytime the cron is run it causes a crash -

eaccelerator: php crashed on opline 195 of imap_open in emailintegration.php: 111

111 is the line number where imap_open is in my case. So basically we need to fix why
script crashes.

BTW, I opened a ticket for my hosting company and they increased eaccelerator memory to 32M, but the crash is still happening. Earlier I was not checking the logs in cpanel and hence was not sure why we get blank screen.

thanks.
-JC

Could you maybe post how to fix the "html big" manually?!

Regards,

Tobi

What about embedded images? Has anyone had any success geting embedded images to show?

I can only get images to show as thumbnails if someone emails the image as an attachment.

I agree... especially with an add-on this complex and unique. I applaud your efforts!

In fact, I am in the middle of switching hosts (as the one I was using wouldn't enable imap in the php.ini file...) solely so I can use this mod.

I am keeping my eyes on it with great enthusiasm and hope to install it very soon.

I'm actually gonna try to package up my current build. It'll fix the html bug and hopefully a few other issues people are experiencing.


Hmm.. your wanting to keep them embedded into the post? I haven't even looked at emails with embedded images yet. How does it post emails that have mebedded images? does it come out in a garble? or just rips them out?


Thanks!!! I'll continue to pound on this sucker and every step will make it more solid :) Patience and persistence :)

I've got 2.3 wrapped up. I'm workin up a quick script to try to help people determine their connection settings they should use. Hopefully this version will smash a few more lingering bugs while adding some things like a forum subscription manager and such.

Anyway, I'll release it tomorrow evening, with or without the connection assistance thinga magig :)

Well... here's to hoping 2.3 goes off well! :)

New version is up...

[high]* Cyricx braces for impact![/high]

everything Perfect ..
also Gmail and google apps working very very well ...

just the issue that i canot update boards anymore .... after hit update in any forum i get a sql error page and a admin email about the error above ...

in admincp .. the menu shows a new entry (atttachment)
*[emailint]*
links going to admincp/admin_ei_search_settings.php
where the output is quite strange .. see attachment 2

besides the problem mentioned by dot2slash -

I am still getting

[1677] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdir/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83
[25625] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdi/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83
[958] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdir/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83

you have php running with --with-imap ?

Hi,

cool, works great!

Smilies seems to be a problem in mails, I have got just a link to the smilie!

Regards,

Tobi

Did you reupload the xml file via the admincp and select overwrite?

I'm starting to think you need to verify the version of eaccelerator. The issue your experiencing is not unique to the modification I wrote.

http://eaccelerator.net/ticket/155

I did a google search for eaccelerator: php crashed and got a buncha hits. Most of the resolutions involved upgrading the eaccelerator.

The true test would be to see if the script runs without eaccelerator.

I'll try to do some comparisons on our two sites to determine what differences you may have :)

Can you forward me the email? to testforums(at)campgaea(dot)org?

I would like to see the header info on the email to try to determine what may have happened :)

Also, was the email from a post that was made from the forums or from email? :)

Thanks!

I got this as well.. :(

seems to be working though

Ah crap! The phrases didn't carry over :)

I'll update this first thing when I get home tonight :)

I added a buncha new phrases for that script to help people figure out their settings.

So we need to wait for the phrases to be fixed before downloading then really?

Yeah :(

I'm at work now.. so gotta wait til I can get home to get it all fixed up.

I'll get home about 6pm central :) Won't take me long at all to get it up :)

Go Cyricx go! Thanks again, man, for the updates and great support!

As I mentioned earlier, I'm moving my server this weekend to accommodate this mod. I'd like to also reiterate the request for cooperation with vBulletin's thread moderation system. (I'd like for moderators to have to approve a thread before it goes out to my entire usergroup via email if possible.)

Lastly, expect a PayPal donation from me soon... I'm very appreciative of your work and you deserve the kudos!

Hey Chris,

I sent you a PM regarding how to check my server's environment.

thanks.
jc

I sure can. I am on tuesday back to the office and will then forward the mail to you.

It is an HTML Mail send from the forum to my mailbox.

Regards,

Tobi

Damn export didn't pull the phrases...

If you've already installed 2.3 all you need to do is reimport the xml file and select overwrite :)



Tralala - Thanks!! I'll get this mod to superb greatness if it kills me!!

JC - I'll check it out! :)

Tobi - Thanks!!

yes i did ...
1 try update (with overwrite)
2. uninstall and install new

no problem or error while doing this ...
same effect

all the rest is working great .. (very good piece of work)

Dot2slash -
Try using the new 2.3.1 xml :)

While I was working on the large number of changes from 2.2 to 2.3 I was using letters in the versions. It seems that it is not supported in vbulletin. 2.2c is what was in the old xml to do the ei_folder changes to the database. Everyone who went from 2.2 to 2.3, vbulletin ignored that code. Note to programers.. only use .'s and numerics in your versions :) Something I didn't know about :(




FYI to all - Justchecking's main problems seem to have revolved around bugs in eaccelerators 0.9.5.1 version. After upgradin to 0.9.5.2 there was no longer a conflict error. It seems that other programs like drupal were also affected by that bad version of eaccelerator.