I'm inclined to agree, so I've made the changes mentioned.

Thanks DC!

Hey,

There was a post on my forum using the mod. great work. One question, when someone replies to a thread, how does the code match reply to an existing thread and posts in that thread, rather then creating a new thread.

thanks.
jc

Hi, Chris.

I've been watching this hack with great interest.

I think you've done a great job and overall I'm impressed with the support and community interaction.

I'm wondering if this mod covers forums where moderation is required.

Currently if you have the email notification on under forums and moderation, regardless of whether it requires moderation or not as soon as the thread is posted those in the notification section are notified.

Does your hack comply to moderation rules. Meaning if a post is added to a activated room, where moderation is required will users be notified after or before the thread is moderated?

Thanks.

Well, it has two catches in it. There is a header line in the emails that retains the postid number. And then in the subject line of the email is the postid number. The one in the header isn't working as solid as I'd like. It doesn't always correctly grab the parentid for hybrid and threaded modes. Once it's solid I'll remove the postid from the subject lines of the emails. If there is no postid in the header or subject line, it considers the post a newthread and processes it as such :) This let's people send fresh emails to the mailbox to start new threads :)


It currently does not take into account moderation. This is another reason why I agreed with moving this to a beta mod.

I need to do some reading and studying on the moderation system to determine how the system does that. It might be something simple, or complex, not sure yet :)

Also, I want to figure out the forumpassword stuff. I want to come up with a system so that forums that have a password can process emails. I'm not yet sure how I'm going to do that without it being very inconvienant for the user.



I really do have full intentions of completeing and finishing out this modification. This is one of the things that I personally feel that vbulletin is truly lacking to be competitive.

The issue is that I have 3 large projects that have to be completed before I can continue on this :(

Heh, that's fine. Knowing that you're working to find the solution already shows progress - and that's saying a lot since a lot of hacks here are not as supported as claimed. Well, I may not be a great coder but I do have an eye for things so let me list out what would be the most ideal version:

- Take all HTML from the e-mail and transfers it to bb-code hence allowing the user to still format text in bold, different fonts, etc..

- Providing us with a way to customize the bottom section of the e-mail (in case we want to leave a more personal message that's more suited to fit our forum)

- Instead of a new e-mail for every post, allow the user to choose whether or not they want an e-mail for every post or a compilation of e-mails once a week or daily. (a new e-mail per post may upset users, especially if the forum is incredibly busy)

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That's all I can think of for now. Please understand that I'm not making demands or anything of the sort. All I'm trying to do is provide enough feedback so you can continue to improve this function. Personally, I believe this is one of the most useful hacks to date but it's still in the beginning stages. Of course I'm sure the ideal setting will take time due to real life stuff but, at least, I want you to be aware of what I'm hoping you achieve in the near future.

Thank you so much for getting back to me and I'm glad you also found the minor hiccup I encountered. Good luck and I look forward to seeing your latest release. In the meantime, I'll still use your hack because I do find it quite useful, even though it's not perfect yet.

If you're US based, have a great holiday weekend and enjoy Thanksgiving!

~ Crys ^^

Chris,

I found the cause of why we get blank screen when "run now" is clicked on scheduled task page for email integration. Everytime the cron is run it causes a crash -

eaccelerator: php crashed on opline 195 of imap_open in emailintegration.php: 111

111 is the line number where imap_open is in my case. So basically we need to fix why
script crashes.

BTW, I opened a ticket for my hosting company and they increased eaccelerator memory to 32M, but the crash is still happening. Earlier I was not checking the logs in cpanel and hence was not sure why we get blank screen.

thanks.
-JC

Could you maybe post how to fix the "html big" manually?!

Regards,

Tobi

What about embedded images? Has anyone had any success geting embedded images to show?

I can only get images to show as thumbnails if someone emails the image as an attachment.

I agree... especially with an add-on this complex and unique. I applaud your efforts!

In fact, I am in the middle of switching hosts (as the one I was using wouldn't enable imap in the php.ini file...) solely so I can use this mod.

I am keeping my eyes on it with great enthusiasm and hope to install it very soon.

I'm actually gonna try to package up my current build. It'll fix the html bug and hopefully a few other issues people are experiencing.


Hmm.. your wanting to keep them embedded into the post? I haven't even looked at emails with embedded images yet. How does it post emails that have mebedded images? does it come out in a garble? or just rips them out?


Thanks!!! I'll continue to pound on this sucker and every step will make it more solid :) Patience and persistence :)