I am my own webhost and the accounts are working, tested them through thunderbird. And I just cant get it to work :(

EDIT

BTW I am using PHP 5.2.x and MySQL 5.X if thats any helpful

Found this.... http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/9372.htm

Dont know if it is helpful

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /includes/vbms_class_installer.php on line 790

Yeah, but I am only giving access to email accounts for my subscribing "VIP Members", so they wouldn't be freeloading off of me.. They have to pay to become VIP members. But since it's strictly internal, I guess it doesn't matter.

Maybe an add-on feature in the future? :p

hey - anyone know what exactly is a catch all email? what do you put there?

Check the "Verbose output" checkbox and then run the installer.
Neither of you have the IMAP functions enabled. In your php.ini, uncomment the "extension=php_imap.dll" file and restart the web server. If you don't have access to that, ask your web host to do it; if they won't, then you can't run this hack on your server.
Try simply going to yoursite.com/forums/vbms_checkmail.php and let me know if there are any errors there. If you see something again like you just showed me, look at the source of that page and see if there are any errors.
How positively strange, it should work like that. The link you gave me has nothing to do with your problem... what sort of mail server are you running on there, and are you sure it's on the default port 110? That's really the only thing I can think of that could be wrong... unless your mail server doesn't accept IMAP connections for some reason.
Haha, possibly, but that's completely different than the type of coding this already uses, and I'm not sure if it's even possible through PHP or not. It'd sure be interesting to look into, though. *looks* it seems IMAP functions can handle that, I'm not sure if that'd work with POP servers or not though. Hmm...
That's something you have to configure with your own web server. It means that any email address @yourwebsite.com that isn't already defined automatically forwards to one single email that "catches all".

There's a bug in imap_open function in php 5.2.1 for windows. I tried also the latest cvs snapshot of php but stil the error continues.....

The error i get is this in vbms logs

I did a search and spoted that the problem is the string that grabs the servername variable ...

Read This from http://gr2.php.net/imap_open

Im not 100% sure .. i tried to hardcode the vbms_checkmail file not to grab the server info from the variable but im not code guru :(

By the way in php 4.4.x works fine ... and php.net said that had fixed it in the latest snapshot thats why i tried it but it was unsuccesfull

I dont know what to do cause yesterday i was with php 4.4.1 with Apc caching and today i changed to 5.2.1 with Xcache and the forum is better as matter the speed and server load, so i dont really want to go back to 4.4.1 and i loved VBMS...

Any help will gratefull.

P.S. Mails sent ok from vbms only receiving gives error atm

Status before enumerating steps: XML parser created: phrases from /includes/xml/vbms_installation_resources_phrases.xml, templates from /includes/xml/vbms_installation_resources_templates.xml

This is all it says after 5 minutes of waiting

Produces a mail icon !?

Set up the catchall account, uploaded the files, ran the install, configured it via Admin CP and we're off to the races.

A grand total of about 2 minutes from download to send/receipt of first test email messages on vBulletin 3.6.5.

Fantastic layout from both the user and Admin POV. Great features, too.

If there were such as thing as MOTY (Mod of the Year), this one would have my vote!)

While I *did* catch the warning about the potential for a tedious upgrade to the final released version, it was worth the chance. Awesome job.

Clicks install and MOTM ... :)

Potential bug: Even when 'Change Alias' is set to NO for his usergroup, the my test user can STILL change his alias.

I only have ONE usergroup enabled for this mod, so it's not a 'Generosity' issue.

This test user has a primary of 'Registered Users', but a secondary as this vbms-enabled group.

Wont install - Fails at the begining of the install process when it checks to see if it can login to the pop server.

Pop server tests fine by my webmail client, and by telneting to port 110 and logging in with USER username PASS password. I have tried verbose and the error details are still blank.

php 5.1.x

Strictly internal = teh best. I may modify it to use individual email accounts for my own site since my server doesn't support catchalls.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /includes/vbms_class_installer.php on line 790

I also get this error ^

The server is a linux one, and imap is confirmed working. Is there any way to get around this and continue the installation?
Edit: I uncommented the extension and restarted web server and it still displays the error.

Edit: I've contacted my host asking them to recompile php with the extension or whatever, we'll see what happens.

Deleting a mail folder DOES delete it, but it also gives the following SQL error:

Perhaps messageid() array should not be empty? Or should it be folderid()?

Ok, so my host got me sorted and I must say this hack is very very impressive!

Glad to see you got that sorted, eNforce.

It seems to only give that error on deleting empty folders. If you upload the fixed vbms_functions_api.php attached here to your "includes" directory, that should fix it.
Will look into this one tomorrow, thanks for pointing it out.
If you're getting a mail icon from that, then there should be something in the admin logs referring to it. Go to your ACP > vBulletin Mail System > Mail Checking Logs, there should be a log (or lots of them) with little exclamation points next to them... what errors are in there?

As to those of you who have PHP 5, I think I've got it sorted; the original hack had a bizarre coding for the imap_open connection string which PHP 5 didn't much like, and I didn't notice it while porting the hack. If you upload the vbms_functions_checkmail.php file attached in your "includes" directory, it should fix that issue.

I'm going to go ahead and repackage the original zip with these two updated files, and hopefully get to some of the usergroup stuff tomorrow.

Note: to those of you who can't see the other usergroups in the ACP, can you send me screenshots of your ACP > vBulletin Mail System > Permissions and your Usergroup Manager pages? I can't seem to reproduce the problem you're describing. When I install this on a clean forum with a few extra test usergroups, it recognizes them; when I then add usergroups after installing this, it also recognizes them.

there are LOADS of logs .. had to turn 'em off for now until I get this problem solved. Logs all show :-

But there are 6 emails in the catch all email and they can be read in web mail with no problems !?

Is there a reason that my attachments are deleted ? i mean i get mails in VBMS but when i read the message the attachment has a X icon and says

This message contains 1 attachment(s) that have been automatically deleted. The likely reason is that either they had names that could potentially contain viruses, or you do not have permission to receive attachments. The information for these deleted attachment(s) is displayed below.

The name of the attachment is a goal.jpg ... and as for permissions i am administrator in the forum...

Once I finally got past the PHP 5 imap_open() error on my own last night, I had to create email accounts for all my users that forward to the vbms one, since my server doesn't support catchalls.

So, it could become problematic if people start changing their aliases even though they supposedly don't have permission. I hope this gets sorted soon.

Any thoughts on the installation issue please Krofh post # 48

This is the conflict list

• The following phrases exist and may result in alternate text being displayed in vBMS pages: actions, method, minutes, to, warning, and warning
• A change in the template "navbar" in the style "MNS 7" couldn't be made because the target text didn't exist or was already appended with the change text.

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Looks like imap is not compiled, will update once sorted!!!

Altough i have catchall on our server enabled i'm not sure on how this works. When i create a catchall for @mydomain.com it is asking next for a mail forward address. When i fill in that @mydomain.com has a forwarder info@mydomain.com .. is info@mydomain.com the catchall address?

And how about the pop3? Is it correct to use pop3@mydomain.com or do i have to use the server address for example: pop3@server1.com address?

Something strange I just found. I kept getting the following error in my logs:

PHP error: imap_open() [<a href='function.imap-open'>function.imap-open</a>]: Couldn't open stream {mailsvr:110/pop3}INBOX

After some research, I noticed that notls wasnt being appended to the /pop3. Even though I have notls selected in the options. I modified your code to force the addition of notls to the pop3 and it works fine now.

//return "{" . $hostname . ":" . $port . "/pop3" . $notls . "}INBOX";
return "{" . $hostname . ":" . $port . "/pop3/notls}INBOX";

Also, deleting emails takes me to a white page.

Anyone here get this to run on a MediaTemple server? I'm having trouble finding the right settings for installation and support is taking forever and day.

I have same error as you, plz inform which file have to change? thanks.

Can i use an external mail?
i mean: i have name@yoursite.com
but i want to check my mail name2@anothersite.com
i can do it?
can i set multiples email accounts?

The log shows that it's getting into an account on your server and checking emails just fine. It would seem, then, that it's logging into the wrong account, or it's in a log that you didn't see. Try sending an email directly to the catch-all account, then go to vbms_checkmail.php, then look in your logs and check the last 5 logs to see if there's anything about that one email.
It would seem that there's a spam/virus filter on your server doing that. The vBMS system itself doesn't worry about virus-checking attachments. This has nothing to do with your vBulletin permissions or anything vB-related.
Not really, I'm not sure what's going on :-/ do indeed make sure imap is enabled and then try again, I'm surprised it doesn't come up with an error saying so, though, unless you've got errors turned off in php.ini or something.
From what you're describing, it does indeed sound like that is the case. Try setting it up like that and see if it works.
Not sure what you're describing... the "POP3 Server Username" would usually be "info" in your case, since that's your catch-all account, and the password would be whatever password goes with that account.
Ahh, I see... will fix that in the next update.
I can't seem to replicate this problem... Using the Quick Action "delete" from the inbox, checking the box and then using the "With checked items" dropdown box to delete it, and opening the email and then clicking "Delete" all work fine for me. Any other information on this one you can give me?
That should be in the includes/vbms_functions_checkmail.php file, if you want to fix it right away. Like I said, I'll try and get this fixed in the next update.
You might be able to, with an external POP3 server and such. You'd have to set the catch-all account to be the one on that server, set all the POP3 information right and such, and see what happens; no guarantees, though, I'm not sure what would happen if you gave ppl emails at a domain other than what your forum's hosted at and how that would work. You'd probably also have to get all your mail records on your servers straight to allow each other, or you'll end up with everything you send out getting marked as spam by anyone who receives it.

Responses like these are why I do not develop for the vbulletin community.

More then likely the author who is working on this project now is not the original author who wanted to charge for this mod. He just picked it up and tried to bring it back to life, FOR FREE. Waisting his own time, on his dime, with little to no thanks in return. Infact, mostly complaints.

Thanks for this. I always thought it was a big hassle to log into my site's email separately. In fact, I had not checked it once until I installed this mod (500 returned mails!).

Some of my users have multiple email accounts on my server, so it would be ideal to allow multiple aliases for each user. I tried auto-forwarding the other accounts to the user's vBMS alias, but apparently this makes no changes to the email headers, so vBMS does not recognize these forwarded mails properly. If support for this could be added for the next version, or you could tell me which functions I need to alter, that would be excellent.

I cannot have this on my server, as its freebsd my host is saying that they cannot recompile imap functions

Quote from host

What a bummer eh? :(

I'm getting the same error as a couple of others here:

Installation failed while "Testing Settings": vBMS couldn't connect to the mail server using the settings you provided. Please go back and verify their accuracy. If you are not sure of the values to use, consult your host.

Details:

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {mail.paranormalis.com:110/pop3}INBOX in /includes/vbms_class_installer.php on line 791

I've contacted my host and they told me what to put in each field, so I know it's the right information. Any way to correct this?

After several hours of going crazy, this ridiculous change worked for me -- in includes/vbms_functions_checkmail.php, find:
Replace with:

After changed, installed, send out mail is worked, but can't receive any mails.

I get this error even though I uncommented the extension in php.ini

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/includes/vbms_class_installer.php on line 790

Any other ideas?

*edit* I recompiled php and it worked out fine!

Everything is working great. But here's a question. How often does the system check for e-mails? How server intensive do you think it will be?

Thanks.

Everything is working fine atm except when i delete a mail i get this
The message is deleted ok but what is this that it says?

Also when i receive messages in greel language in the subject the characters that are show in the VBMS when i watch the inbox shown strange iso things.... and is doesnt show the greeks.... all the forum is in greek and working fine except VBMS area... is there a way that i can add something somewhere?

Krofh, did you miss this one from a few days ago? I didn't see any response and was wondering if it was fixed in the 3/5/07 update? Thanks.

Quite indeed :(
No idea what's going on with that, it does it for me too... maybe your mail server doesn't accept external IMAP connections from itself or something? Try using "localhost" instead of "mail.paranormalis.com" just to see if that happens to work. I'm not sure why it would do that though, I was able to connect to mail.paranormalis.com:110 just fine with telnet :-/
Indeed, that was the same fix I posted a few posts back with an updated attached vbms_functions_checkmail.php file.
Check the "Mail checking logs" in your ACP (under the vBulletin Mail System area). If there are no logs, then the cronjob probably isn't running. If there are logs, see if there are any errors in there. If it's checking the mail account fine and simply says there are no messages, check with a webmail to see if the catch-all account is even receiving mails.
It's a cron job running every minute; I don't know how intensive this really is though, I haven't done a lot of monitoring with that.
lol! Very sorry, it seems I left some of my debugging notes in there when I was trying to fix a bug. Go ahead and upload the attached file in your "includes" directory, that'll fix it.
Can you show me some screen shots, or get me a link to your forum? I'm a bit confused with what specifically is going on... is anything strange showing up in the "Mail checking logs" area? I can't say I'm much familiar with how vBulletin handles non-alphanumeric characters, so this could be interesting.
No, I didn't get it fixed, I did do some looking into what might be causing it before getting swamped with homework, so I really haven't gotten to do any major work on this the last few days. Sorry, it's on the top of my bugs-to-fix list.

Just tried it and I got the same error :( When I check line 791 in the file it references (vbms_class_installer.php) it says something about a password... I know my password is correct though.

The cronjob seems work fine, even didn't see any error from the logs, see below picture.
http://img10.imagepile.net/img10/33189picture.jpg

I'd check my webmail, there's 6 mail there, no idea why it didin't delivery to vbms.