Can VBMS run with Google mail for it's SMTP and POP servers? Or does it require a localhost server?

Usergroups. I'm not being picky in my product about that, but that's how vBulletin works. Everything else permissions-related is based on usergroups, not on individual people being allowed.
You can try if you like, but why would you do that? You'd have to get your server's catch-all to forward everything coming in to a Google mail account, then check the Google mail server remotely... which really is just a waste of traffic.
True, but a lot of users will not have the ability to install PEAR on their website.
You're saying that if you send a letter from Outlook to the vBMS, it doesn't work? This surprises me, since Outlook is primarily what I've been testing with.
The idea is that, if one attachment is potentially dangerous, any other attachments probably are as well. I might make that an option though.

My server does not support "catch all" e-mails, any other way for this to work?

^ See the FAQ on the main post:

Well I got problem in installation ... It says like this

"Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /admincp/vbms_install.php on line 74"

vBMS Upgrade in Progress

installation Complete.... And I cant see anything in my AdminCP.. Please help

The VBMS was causing me a database errors when I tried to uninstall it, so I tried to remove the vbms_ tables in phpmyadmin.
I now cannot enter my website at all now, nor do I have a recent backup. I try to reinstall it, but I cannot do this, so now my website won't work...........
Can you advice me?

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.5:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT phrasetypeid, title, product
FROM phrasetype
WHERE phrasetypeid IN (500);

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasetypeid' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Sunday, April 1st 2007 @ 09:10:47 AM
Script : http://adviceforall.org/forum/admincp/vbms_install.php
Referrer :
IP Address : 195.93.21.71
Username : Rick
Classname : vB_Database

Thats the error I get any help??

Well I deleted all of previous installation thru phpMYadmin.... Now i got new error in my installation...

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {localhost:110/pop3}INBOX in /includes/vbms_class_installer.php on line 791

Well the first error looked like you probably didn't upload all the files before installing. About this error, well... look in the FAQ on the first post, this one's been covered.

I dunno why it's still referring to phrasetypeid anywhere at all; can you describe what you were trying to do? The error by itself doesn't help me much.

There's a reason I provide so many warnings about backing up your site before installing this.

Regarding what to do now, you could try turning off the plugin system in vBulletin and working from there. Delete files, uninstall plugins, etc.

Is there a reason why sometimes a mail is coming 1000 times? i mean i have noticed it once when i 1st installed the mod and 1 test mail that i had sent it with attachment came to VBMS 1000 times and eventually hunged the forum..
This huppened again yesterday and i and some other users got the same... a mail 1000 times.
I saw the error logs of vbulletin (not the VBMS logs) and i noticed that VBMS has trouble to attach the attachment of the e-mail to the Vbulletin database. I dont know why this is huppening but its a bit of a problem cause i dont know when it will hit again.
Is there anything i can do? or is there a hidden option that will put the attachments in the disk and not in the VB database? or maybe is there a limit somewhere that i reach it and this is huppening?

Another 1 question... does anyone knows the variable of VBMS that i need to put in CMPS to see in Navbar the new incoming box?

Thx in advance
Chris

Go back to original post. I had fixed that problem

Here is my options which works. Template needs to be replaced too

I got the attachments working correctly from a post made here.

2 things that I would like to modify:

1. I would like to send email from my site (vbms) as html so I can add my site's banner, background color and links. I set the option "Keep HTML message as-is?" to "yes" and it still shows html as text. I tried the modifications posted here and changed "htmlaction" to "allowhtml" and still the same results.

2. When sending from my site (vbms) it shows my signature as links. I know there's an option not to send signatures, but it's set to "yes" by default. Either I would like to set it to "no" by default or have it display the signatures correctly. The signatures are in bbcode format.

I would like to add that I tested this mod on my test forums for the past 2 weeks and now I'm going live with it for only my VIP members.

Great mod, keep it up!

Works like a charm!!!!

Thanks for the great hack.

Edited and added in:

Are we all going to jail now? I read this below:

I thought this was funny ;) /includes/vbms_installation_resources.xml

Does this work with usergroup permissions? I only want my premium members and staff to have the ability to have an email account?

Okay it sends and e-mails fine, now getting the 500 ERROR below when trying to respond to this e-mail address...



Any idea what is happening here? :cool:

Yes this hack can work Per User group and the settings are inside your admincp area...

Edited and added screen shot.

Well I have not installed this yet but I must say GREAT JOB. and THANK YOU for stepping up and attacking what could be one of the all time greatest traffic building mods ever for vbulletin software.

I will install it, and if I can get it to work, you can expect a nice donation from me.
Also, do you offer install services for a fee ? :)

There's a "Delete messages after downloading?" option in the ACP, if that's not set to "Yes" then obviously it won't clear the server. Is this happenening with all mails to you with attachments or just this specific one?

The HTML it sends is generally just bbCode, try using that. It should convert the bbCode to HTML before it sends it. This is to prevent your users from mailing others malicious scripts.

That is very strange... who is this "Doctor"? It looks like it's trying to send an email to that specific address, and "Doctor" obviously is not an address :-/

Sounds like a great idea, will put on the list of features to add.

Hah, I guess I missed the notice in that file. The original author of this hack used to sell it, but he stopped developing it after vB3 and released it as open-source, saying that anyone could port it to 3.5. He never changed the copyright notices on the files though :p

I'd be willing to do that, feel free to contact me by email or PM.

I had it to yes offcourse... but as i am thinking the problem is appearing if a big attachment comes to VBMS for a user.... for some reason VBMS cannot add the attachment to Database and then the problem appears for all VBMS users to receive multiple times the same message simply cause VBMS wasnt able to put the big mail to Database and this means that never said to Mail server that he got the mail and delete it... thats why it downloads over and over again till it crashes the board. A solution as i am thinking is when VBMS get the mail from the server then just before put it in the DB to delete it 1st from the mail server and not after... its temp solution but i suppose it will save me atm.

Can that huppened? am i the only 1 that saw this prob?

Doable, but extremely inefficient, and your board would just as likely crash from server load.

Like I said though, when does it happen? Just with large attachments? How large is the attachment you're having this problem with? It shouldn't be an issue of size not fitting in the database; after all, vBulletin itself allows for uploading attachments directly into the database (well, avatars and profile pics anyways, I guess I'm not completely sure on the attachments).

I re-installed it without problems this time. Must have been the server move which caused the problems before.
Now, whenever I run the cron job, I receive the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare can_admin_hosting() (previously declared in /********/*********/htdocs/forums/admincp/global.php(203) : eval()'d code:3) in /********/*********/htdocs/forums/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 2

Any help?

It seems to be a conflict with another hack, but considering I don't have a function called "can_admin_hosting()" anywhere in my hack, I don't think it's a problem with the vBMS. Do other cron jobs run fine? I'm suspecting any and all cron jobs will fail with the same error. What happens if you simply navigate to ./vbms_checkmail.php, do you get an error there as well?

Krofh we run our forum on servage.net and i don't have a single idea what to do with the parameters such as 'pop' etc. Can you give an advice or hint to guide us to the installation?

Very nice, thanks a lot.

Will install when it is out of beta and safe to put on a production server. :)

I found out that the vHosting hack was causing the problem.
Now, for some strange reason, whenever trying to run the cron job, I get an error:

The image "bla bla bla bla" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
Any thoughts?

Same settings you'd use to connect in from a POP3 mail client such as Microsoft Outlook.
That's not necessarily a problem; it does that normally just because of the way the cron system works. However, in the ACP, you can go to vBulletin Mail System > Mail Checking Logs and see if there are any errors popping up there.

Sorry for my delay, I have been away. What happens is that if I have a user in 2 groups and one has the flood check on the user cannot even send a message, basically it blocks them completely. If that makes sense.

Can anyone recommend a mailserver to use with VBMS. I currently use HMail which works fine for receiving but won't send unless I enable Internet> external-to-external which opens the server up to be used as a relay.
Or failing a recomendation does anybody know the correct settings for Hmail?
Thanks

Yeah there is probably a setting you are missing. I would highly suggest getting someone qualified to help you....

Well it turns out you cannot send an email from localhost unless you have and actual account making Hmail vbms incompatable.
Any other recomendations?

Krofh :) thank you and we are waiting for the next update

The only problem so far is the cron job. When we were testing it show that we could only send mail, not recieve. After checking the cron i saw that no time whas set so i put this to a 15 minutes check and run it manualy first. What is a reasonable time to set for this cron?

I have to contact my Webhost about the php imap ext.

So am I... >.<

Actually, by default, it's set to be every minute... I don't recommend leaving it at over 5 minutes unless it's killing your server.

Do you have an update on the changes for the next release of this product?

Any new time frame for that to be released?

any problems with this on mysql 5.0.7 or PHP 5.2.1?

Status before enumerating steps: XML parser created: phrases from /includes/xml/vbms_installation_resources_phrases.xml, templates from /includes/xml/vbms_installation_resources_templates.xml

Install stops.

I saw someone else mention this above but no solution.

Thanks! Sounds like a very nice mod.

I need to make sure of this first. Thanks.

Unfortunately I am still getting a mysterious error that results in the error image not displaying. I have no idea what the error is, just that it breaks everything.

Changed it to output $reason instead of the error image:

PHP error: array_key_exists() [<a href='function.array-key-exists'>function.array-key-exists</a>]: The second argument should be either an array or an object (/home/crackede/public_html/includes/vbms_functions_checkmail.php:421)

Also this results in my vbms mailbox getting checked, not saved to the database, and all the messages deleted.