I remain interested in EMI, but I also deployed vB4.0 last week and I'm just getting to grips with it. The threads seem to have RSS feed buttons on them which you can just click on. I haven't had a chance to play with these yet but presumably you can just set them up to feed what's circulating on a particular forum to your inbox. Anyone know whether you could design a mod or take part of EMI to reply to a forum in response to something being delivered from a RSS feed rather than starting again from scratch?

JJ

I've got a private mod (not related to EMI) that I've got to finish first, but I'll post as soon as I start upgrading this to vb4.0 which will be soon because I want to get my forums up to 4.0 too :)

jdj - The issues that I battle through are all related to processing replies from emails as they come in. So the RSS function as they go out wouldn't help with the problem spots at all.

how's this going? :D

Here is a quick-fix of patches to EI Mod to support moderated forums, cloned from the existing code in 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 3.8.4 this patch allowed moderation from the Admin Control Panel, Moderator Control Panel and from inline moderation.

The only differences to the earlier version tested in 3.6.8, available from https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...151222&page=67, are the two INSERT statements in the installation instructions in the file Install.384.txt.

Toivo

This may be a bit convoluted, but if this mod works with 3.8.4 is there a way to set up a "dummy" or "server" installation of 3.8.4 to run EMI and "share" the posts with an installation of 4.0? I mean, is it possible to get the two installations to connect to the same MySQL database?

JJ

I'm trying to get some outbound mail delay issues resolved and the guys who look after my server need to know whether EI sends mail using smtp authentication or just using the mail() php function?

I'm not a developer so I don't really know. Can someone please advise :)

i haven't looked at the code and i'm not the developer for this mod but i would guess that it uses vbmail which is a vbulletin mail function.

If vBulletin Options - Email Options - SMTP Email has this explanation: EI Mod uses the standard vbmail() function which selects one of the following, depending on the configuration in SMTP Email:

1. vB_SmtpMail = SMTP wrapper
2. vb_Mail = PHP Mail() function

These classes can be found in includes/class_mail.php.

Many thanks guys, that's exactly what I needed to know :)

I had forgotten about that batch sending feature. When mail is set to be sent in batches, does anyone know what the delay is between batches?

The processing of the mail queue is triggered by each rendered page. The function exec_mail_queue() is called from exec_shut_down() close to the bottom of includes/functions.php.