You don't create the mailboxes through vBulletin or this mod. You use your site/server control panel (cPanel, Plesk, Ensim, etc.) to create email accounts. For instance, if you had a forum called "Member's Lounge" you could create an email account called lounge@yoursite.com. Then you would enter all the email account info when you edit your lounge forum.

So, you basically end up with a bunch of email addresses for your site/forums.

I hope that helps!

I have bought my email domain from Gmail. it's like admin@unitedpunjab.co.uk so can i create email address from my gmail (unitedpunjab.co.uk) account and then can add info about that in this hack.

And can you also tell me the proper settings What information i am going to need from a email account to fill out in ACP on vB.

Now these are the settings provided by google.

• For POP access, the incoming server is pop.gmail.com or pop.googlemail.com, and the outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com or smtp.googlemail.com.
• For IMAP access, the incoming server is imap.gmail.com or imap.googlemail.com, and the outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com or smtp.googlemail.com.

I have created a account for my domain.

but google is giving me different host names for sending and receiving mails on my domain.

Anybody can help me with this, please?

I really cannot believe this is the type of support i'm getting for this mod. I guess the best way now to resolve my problem is to uninstall this mod. So much so for this mod :mad:

It's not like this is my paying job ;)

I have an actual real paying day job, plus family, plus a not-for-profit organization that I do ALOT of volunteer time for :)

I've hit some major setbacks in the next version as well as we just went through the Samhain (halloween) holiday. For most people it may not be a big deal.. but for my personal religion it's our new years holiday :)

In anycase, I'm sorry if my time is limited and if the value of what your getting here for free is not up to your standards ;)



To address your specific problem..

Have you tried adjusting the "hostname of the above email" as detailed in the instructions? Most common settings for that field are:

localhost
ip address of your server
mail.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com

If all else fails, you may always send me a PM with admin access to your sites forum manager and scheduled task and I will trouble shoot your settings.

In the long run I'd love to write a script that scrolls through and tests all those settings to try to determine your settings for you, but that's dreaming big right now when I've got some huge projects in my lap for the not-for-profit that I need to hande first.

O and in regards to the gmail thing. There is some additional verification crap that google seems to require you to do. I haven't had a chance to dig into the code to address that issue yet :(

I'm still tryiing to beat the vbmail problem, so it's one monster at a time right now heh. :)

This is the reason why I hate to give people dates of planned releases.. cuz things always come up :o

Kube, do you use vbadvanced? The issue is in the url of your smilie. I'd suggest in the smilie manager correcting the url for the smilie to the true full url.

Other then that, I'd have to write a plugin for the bbcode manager to amend those urls. Hmm, that could be difficult...

I'll add this to my ponder list. In the meantime, correcting the smilies in your smilie manager to the full url would resolve this issue.

You must have a separate mailbox for EACH forum.

For example if you have the following forums running this mod

Political Talk Forum
General Discussion Forum
Jokes Forum

You'd have to have an email box setup and assigned for each such as:

politicaltalk@yourdomain.com
generaldiscussion@yourdomain.com
jokes@yourdomain.com

This is so that the code can process and assign new threads correctly.

Thanks for taking your precious time to reply, finally. I've already uninstalled the mod that i've installed with much excitement at first. I like your reasons and i understand your predicaments.

Just like many other mods i've installed, the coder don't get paid for what they've done and as a free user, i definitely appreciate their efforts and time, and i'm not asking or begging for extremely prompt reply. All I can say is others are just doing a much better job.

I rest my case here. I can live without this mod anyway. Good luck.