*shrug*

Personally, I think replying within 1 week is doing pretty damn good :)

Does anyone know if this plays nice with VBSEO?

Hey, I'm glad to field a few questions. That's what "community" is all about!

I'm running VBSEO. No problems.

Blessed Be! ;)

My forum has evolved out of a Yahoogroups and this sounds like it will let people post via email which many of my members miss!

Do you think this mod is ready for prime time? Should I wait for the next version?

Thanks for your answer to this and for all your good work that you have shared with us!

Barry

Glitterkill -
I had vbseo running side by side with one of the earlier versions and didn't notice any side effect issues at all :)

Bchertov -
As to if this mod is ready for prime time... that's hard to say. Some are experiencing odd issues with it. Others are having no problems at all! I'm definately working to try to fix those problems as time allows.. but truthfully, I can't give a definitive date on when the next version will be out.

I just discovered that vbmail doesn't like to run from a cron job as an html email when a & is involved.. yeah.. that's gonna be a doozy to fix heh. :)

But yeah, evolving from yahoogroups was the entire purpose for this modification :)


ChurchMedia - You Rock!!! :)

Could you post more info to tell us how you sorted it out

Thanks

Great mod. Really appreciate all the effort. Will contribute soon. I was able to install and also got email when someone replied. Then when I replied, i was expecting the email to show up as a reply in the thread after 10 minutes. But I have not seen it yet. My question -
Did I screw up something during installation ? I am not still not sure where I enabled the cron job. Does the script have the cron functionality or do I have to enable it in the c-panel of my site.

Does the script only verify with the email address or name also. Because in this case names do not match between vbulletin forum site and yahoo account, but emails match and hence i got the email.

Oh one more thing, in the email I received when someone replied, i see in the brackets - [forumname-t-321] ....is that normal.

thanks.
jc

This is something planned for down the line. :)


For your host name try, localhost, mail.yourdomain.com, yourdomain.com or your IP address for your server. I really want to create a script that will have you input a few of these different variables and then it'll run through a list and try to determine your settings for you. But that is also.. on my to-do list :(



It only checks the email address. And then matches that up to your user's email address. So they have to send the email from the same email address that they have associated with their username on your forums. :)

The 10 minutes thing is based on activity. Vbulletin only runs cron jobs when the forum is active. This is because the variable to run the cron jobs is actually located in the footer template. So if noone is visiting your forums.. the cron jobs.. and the email integration won't run.

Basically.. it'll run a maximum of 10 minutes if your board is constantly active. Otherwise it will wait to run til the next time someone is visiting. The best way to understand this is to open up two windows. One is to your forums. and the other is the admincp, scheduled tasks.

Do this after the board has been quiet for a few hours. What you will see when you first login is a bunck of tasks that are past the time they were supposed to run. Each time you click on a different page on the site, one of the tasks will run that are waiting to run.

thanks Chris. I finally found that we need to run the cron job manually first time through scheduled tasks manager in admincp. My problem is that when I do that, I get an error
- unable to open the stream. So basically cron script has trouble logging into the mail system and downloading the emails. I tried all 6 settings but no luck.

-thanks.
dslv

Email Integration

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {mail.mysite.com:993/pop3/ssl}INBOX in /includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 111

Warning: imap_headers(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in /includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 114

Warning: imap_close(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in /includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 1213

Done