I would love this for 4.2! This would most likely really increase content on many forums allowing members to just reply to a thread or post through email. I want this!

You know, I've contacted a few different coders of some other mods who didn't specify to take the project over or mark their mod as reusable. Even on their own sites or Facebook Pages. So far, none have returned my calls. Seems some of the old coders don't even want to talk to anyone still using vB.

vB is offering cloud solution now... well, they are really after our own forum traffic aren't they? Maybe that's why developers have jumped ship, a generational shift in platform where they aren't really welcome. Can't blame them. Mind you, this opens up opportunities for other forum developers, and there may be somewhere else we can park our interest in a few years...

This is a much requested plugin from some of my clients, so I'm very interested to see what comes of this.

I tried contacting the developer some time ago with no response. I even offered to pay to have it updated for vB 4+. About then I decided that I'd have it done myself (no not by me. Too many years since I coded anything).

Not reusable? Not sure what that implies. Does it mean I can just add a new Mod? And how the heck do you do that?

It is a significant rewrite. Some of the changes which were made to it e.g. That whole "write between the lines" in the reply block area thing is now gone. That was in response to the ubiquitous use of Gmail accounts. Gmail users had trouble with that because Gmail insists on popping up this tiny box for a reply and you don't see the Mods reply box. But the basic bones are still there.

I've had it running on my forum for more than two months and made tiny changes along the way. And more will be done as I'm not enamored of the Subject line containing a thread number when thread info is in the RFC-822 headers which could be used.

Jim

That's an interesting comment. I moved from a listserv to vBulletin with that exact thought in mind. The amount of flack that I caught because of the difference in email delivery was incredible.

Jim

Though it is not marked as reusable, does not mean you can not show (In this thread) step by step instructions on all edits you had to do to get this to work on 4.0.
You can not allow any downloads, just text to show where to edit so others can do the same.

But, you would think with the way vb4 is written compared to 3.7, there should really be nothing stopping anyone from updating any pre vb4 modification to work with vb4.
Just my thoughts.

Well the underlying PHP code can be exactly the same in vB3 and vB4, the only difference is how the template is rendered, so since it is not marked reusable, it would require a complete rewrite.

It is unfortunate, but until the developer changes the status, a edited version of the mod can not be posted. :(

Can anyone write something like the mod completely from scratch? I need this urgently for my forum. I would add some donation to get it started.