I believe this addon will be a great addition. I eventually want the full implementation but for now I'm trying to install and just get the instant notification of new posts via email, but it doesn't seem to work. So I'd like to have it so each forum can get instant notification posts via email but nobody able to reply and post yet. Is this doable? Can I use one email address for all forums for the time being?

I tried setting it up with one email address for all forums as pop3 and just didn't put in any user groups to post via email and so far no posts are being sent out. Any help is appreciated (i'm reading through the pages of posts here to see if this was already answered anywhere).

Thanks

We have noted in tests that some posts/threads sent via email includes advertorials and email signatures. I have noticed this with Yahoo advertorials in particular. This is a problem. Is there a way to parse out the actual posts without posting advertorials and signatures?

Also would the solution described here make this Mod work with gmail?
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/a...mail-over-imap

No, this does not currently handle private messaging.

Tek, I'll get with you today via email to see if we can determine whats going on :)


To set this up to only send out notifications of new threads and posts, but NOT allow reply emails.

Turn on auto subscription for each of the forums in question. Enter the email address that the emails are coming through (can be admins).

Go to the usergroup manager, enable auto subscription for the usergroup, enter the forum ids they automatically get subscribed to.

Under usergroups use the Auto Subscriptions script to update forum subscriptions.

Now go to languages and phrases and search for "ei_notify" in phrase variable and edit those to your liking, most importantly be sure to remove the you can reply to this.

Lastly... those that DO want to allow replies, DO NOT change the ei_notify! It is very important as currently the script looks for the two -=-=-=-=- lines to remove users sigs and the links to the forum from reposting.


I have not yet found a way to remove the yahoo advertisements. On the sigs, it's the sigs that they setup in their emails right? it's not the forum signatures reposting?

The forum signatures should be getting stripped, as far as stripping signatures that they setup for their email to add to the message. No, I do not believe there will be any way to differentiate the message body from that signature as it is added on their side without a universal separator.

In regards to gmail, I'll check into that :)

I will think about the same. That feature IS a must.

Maybe a new setting in usercp to put a new "email posting password", different from the login password (vb's password). Then a user MUST use that password in some part of the email, or in the very beginning of the email's subject in order to be able to post as that user.
So the system internally get that password from the email, validate it, and post the message if its valid. Discard it if its invalid (even log the "email post try", with the content and ip adress to check possible problematics users later).

I will use this mod if some type of security like that is added.
Great job anyways! ;)

So - I am migrating from MailMan to vBulletin, mainly because of this plugin!! Thanks!!

The question is, I have a ton of archived mailing list posts. I was thinking while I am in migration mode, if I added the 'unregistered' group to the email integration and allowed anonymous posting, it would work. I could then forward all the mail as the user to the pop3 and let vB bringing it in.

Then when I am set, I can turn those back off, and lock it down for no-anonymous posting.

Unfortunately, it didnt work that well -- or at all.

Any ideas how I could do this Mailman migration - something simple using the pop retirever in Email Integration would be slick

thanks
Chris

That's got nothing to do with this hack, really. And you could easily include text from Private Messages in the email notificiation, simply by adding $plaintext_message to the pmreceived phrase.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up :)

I'm starting to work on 2.3 here are some of the changes I'll be adding in from others and working on myself

From Ed:
*Configurable newline character for emails (This may be null depending on the vbmail function)
*Subscription manager interface

From Bob:
*Performance and memory saving
*Handle post parentids correctly - affects threaded and hybrided mode.

My focuses will be:
*Get the system to use vbmail.. the spooling is a nessecity for large boards
*Get rid of all that [quote] stuff. It looks kick ass, but it just will never be reliable. This will also significantly clean up and speed up the email cleaning procedure as half of that is determining what kinda email it is to start and end the quotes on. Not to mention some people like to reply within other's posts.
*Get it to accept html attachments, like forwarded messages if the admin sets to accept all attachments.
*Gmail integration, allow a gmail address to be used to retrieve emails from.
*Allow an alternative install that doesn't allow import emails for those that just want the notifications.

There is no time frame on this as the rewriting of the regex's will be quite an undertaking, not to mention trying to get this thing to work using vbmail to send html emails without editting the files will be quite a trick I think. :)

Anyway. That's what I'm hoping for 2.3 :)

No eta on that release, but keep your fingers crossed!

Just installed 2.2 .. seems to work well .. thanks for the hard work on this :)

The only problem I can see is if it's a quiet forum (say for a small group of friends) and no one visits the forums, but just uses the emails. Wouldn't this mean no email is processed due to it using the vbcron? Is there a way of getting around this?

Not that I have yet found. The scheduled tasks are run when the footer template is called from someone visiting if I recall right. This keeps the server from working overtime doing unneeded cleanups and such.

I'm uncertain yet if this is something I want to try to change. On one hand, I'm happy not to be hitting the server every 10 minutes when nothing is going on and maybe if I can get the email processor to pull the time an email was sent to assign that to the post may work well.

On the other hand, I'm unsure of an alternative way to get the cron to run every 10 minutes when noone is visiting from within vbulletin.

If someone has an alternate way to run the cron job from within vbulletin I'd certainly entertain the thought of working it into the mod :)

Oh, one thing I've noticed is that it is dropping the closing quote tag when I reply via email.

Would that have anything to do with me not using html mail in outlook?