Is this going to get updated with the fixes?

feel free to do so

I'll use the Gmail account, 1000 times better.

Useless to you. If you can't read, move on, this hack is not for you. I've got this 100% bug free on my site and I know of 2 other sites that has it up and running.

I stated that I don't know how to pack it into a product, filburt said he does not know. If you can't appreciate what was done and call me a smart ass, move on.

edit....
and it's good that you changed your post

Listen folks, a lot of people have worked hard on this and for nothing.

I too am having problems with the install simply because I am not a coder. It wasn't until just recently that Lionel worked out all the issues with the product.

Now, for us noobs, we must wait for a savvy coder to come along and wrap all the manual fixes into a final product that has an automated install.

I am waiting patiently as well. Getting snotty is not going to move this along any faster. Let's respect those that have worked hard on this product to get it to where it is.

It wont be long now. Thanks Lionel!

Me, I am out of here. I will not waste my time to be called names.

No good deed goes unpunished Lionel.

Please don't let what one ungrateful member says run ya away.

You've done more with fixing this than anyone...and it is appreciated, very much!

You ROCK MAN!

Anomalies: Thanks for setting back the movement! We keep running off the good coders who are doing their best on what IS a free product, this will never come to fruition.

Whoever needs help to get it running, just PM me with access and I'll set it up for you.

I also wanted to thank you very much for your help in getting this addon running!

You shouldn't care too much about any insults made by this guy. It's the internet, it's nearly impossible not to meet people like him sooner or later.

Dodgeboard, you are all set.

You need to setup the settings, permissions etc.. (mainly create the catchall account).
It appears that you removed the $cronimage in your template. It will never work without it.

And one last step for you to do (optional)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=221

After you finish testing, let people know if it runs fine in 3.63

YOU ROCK buddy!

It works with 3.6.3 just fine!!

That's in both vbms_functions.php and in vbms_init.php

That was by design so attachments could be bound to messages predictably when mail is being checked.

That was giving an error about key exists or something. That stopped when I added auto increment

Which BTW dodgeboard I forgot to do for you.

Well .. it seems like the plugins for checking mail are working as I now have some log entries :) .. the problem I now have is that imap isn't installed (Doh!) .. My ISP is looking at that now :)

Thanks for the pointers towards changing the name in the title and breadcrumbs .. that's now sorted :)

A couple of small things ..

it seems like something is the wrong away round .. say my alias is "slave" and my forum account is "Slave" .. when I send out an email the received name and email address look like this ..

slave<Slave@testsite.com>

Spot the incorrect capitalisation ..

and finally .. when viewing vbms.php the breadcrumb is a bit funny .. the sitename is about 5 spaces away from the folder image, any idea why that would be? It's ok on all the other vbms pages ..

Thanks again :) .. this hack will rock once I get imap installed :bored:

btw .. the "You do not currently have an alias defined." warning box does not disappear the first time you enter your alias (on the change your alias page) .. perhaps like the settings in admin you have to click the enter button twice for it to disappear ..

I've not explained that very well .. try setting an alias on a user without one to see what I mean :)

If you have blank spaces could be that you left some blank spaces after the " in the php where you made the changes

I know. It does disappear when you refresh the page. It is a bit annoying but non critical.

Anyway some good news on the way. A coder is about to package it into a product.

After looking at it again, it seems it's a problem with Safari not showing the page correctly due to the extra long page name. IE sees it fine .. :rolleyes:

One other thing I've noticed. When you try to email another forum user by just putting their forum user name in, vbms comes back with a "This user is not accepting email from other forum users" error. However I'd changed the setting of the receiving forum user to ticked for this setting in their usercp. So vbms can't be reading it right.

I've tested this with more than one user and still the same results. I wouldn't of thought imap not being installed would effect this, so it must be something else in the code.

Mine is working flawlessly in 3.6.3 thanks to Lionel.

He got me all fixed up!!

Users are loving it!!

Unless the other user setup an alias, the email address does not exists. And it will not work by putting another username in there. That would have to be an alias, which is not necessary same as username

Also alias need to be in your address book

Is there a way to automatically add the username > alias when a user is added to a specific group?

I'd like to have:

1) Regular Users
2) Contributing Users

I'd like contributing users to automatically get an alias = username when they get bumped into that group.

Really? .. hmm that's not how the v3.0 one worked ..

Oh well .. I'll give it a go and see if it works :)

There is a little note with an example of "Bob at work" in the create alias page.

and what about regular users? They don't get anything? If so, you can set that in vbms_permissions and do a quick plugin. The alias goes in table user, so that could also be inserted when updating user with new usergroup to SET alias=username

You might want to let users manually set their alias. We have many users with a space in their username. This would undoubtedly cause problems.

good point.

Installed in 3.5.4, using orignial intall archive, attached to initial thread.
It works. Almost.

The only problem seembs to be that I can send emails but I cannot receive e-mails, using this system. I can see mails in cpanel webmail, but it wont go inside vbmail system.

Please adivse? Did I missed something?

3.25?

If you can see the emails then I assume you have already created the catchall account on your mail host.

Make sure your vbms settings matches the account used for your catchall account and that you have entered the password.

To get mine to work, I had to revert my footer template. Then I started getting my emails.

if none of that works, try changing your mailhost setting in adminc vbms settings from localhost to mail.yoursite.com and see if that fixes it

Try to run this in your browser and post the results if any (replace with your values)

http://www.yoursite.com/forums/vbms_checkmail.php

An important point to whoever is going to use this hack. Set @yoursite.com in the vb User Banning Options banned email list to prevent users from using their alias@yoursite.com as the primary site contact, or the script will enter into a loop trying to send notifications non stop.

Sorry, I meant 3.5.4. Installed this mail system into 3.5.4 VB.

For some reason, all e-mails that I sent immediately after the instllation wont go into vbmial box. but two hours later it did, and now work every time. Sent the mail - see it in vbmail box almost immediately.

This will force ppl to have another email address. And they will less likely use your mail system. I think it will be better to prevent sending notification in case if @yoursite.com is used as a contact. Disable it for mail and for all other notifications.

Or, even better, disable server from enter into a loop trying to send notifications non stop. Have to check the code..

a couple settings were missing from original package

1-the time interval to check email
2-the purge from server option

Also, this is based on site activity. If your site is new and don't have too much activity, the cron will not run on time.

We have 14-18k uniq users daily (www.goha.ru, www.forums.goha.ru - Russian MMORPG Community portal). But for training purposes I am currently using dev forum, wich does not have visitors (except for myself).

Do we have installation package for 3.5.4 VB?
Or should I try to use 3.6.2 instllation package attached somewere in this thread?

hummm, don't know what to tell you. The original zip was reported buggy.
The installation is a tiny bit different for 3.60-3.63. the phrasetype database structure is different.

Ok, thanks for your help.
I'll compare the code for both versions (beyondcompare) and will figure out what to replace.

But tomorrow. Sleep time for me.

Have a good time of the day =)

Ok... I now a product XML file that performs all the SQL queries required to create tables/etc. On uninstall it drops tables and the extra column from the users table.

I've also added all the templates...

I seem to have a few bugs on my install... if I change the logging level it doesn't seem to take effect. Ideas?