I cannot have this on my server, as its freebsd my host is saying that they cannot recompile imap functions

Quote from host

What a bummer eh? :(

I'm getting the same error as a couple of others here:

Installation failed while "Testing Settings": vBMS couldn't connect to the mail server using the settings you provided. Please go back and verify their accuracy. If you are not sure of the values to use, consult your host.

Details:

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

I've contacted my host and they told me what to put in each field, so I know it's the right information. Any way to correct this?

After several hours of going crazy, this ridiculous change worked for me -- in includes/vbms_functions_checkmail.php, find:
Replace with:

After changed, installed, send out mail is worked, but can't receive any mails.

I get this error even though I uncommented the extension in php.ini

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/includes/vbms_class_installer.php on line 790

Any other ideas?

*edit* I recompiled php and it worked out fine!

Everything is working great. But here's a question. How often does the system check for e-mails? How server intensive do you think it will be?

Thanks.

Everything is working fine atm except when i delete a mail i get this
The message is deleted ok but what is this that it says?

Also when i receive messages in greel language in the subject the characters that are show in the VBMS when i watch the inbox shown strange iso things.... and is doesnt show the greeks.... all the forum is in greek and working fine except VBMS area... is there a way that i can add something somewhere?

Krofh, did you miss this one from a few days ago? I didn't see any response and was wondering if it was fixed in the 3/5/07 update? Thanks.

Quite indeed :(
No idea what's going on with that, it does it for me too... maybe your mail server doesn't accept external IMAP connections from itself or something? Try using "localhost" instead of "mail.paranormalis.com" just to see if that happens to work. I'm not sure why it would do that though, I was able to connect to mail.paranormalis.com:110 just fine with telnet :-/
Indeed, that was the same fix I posted a few posts back with an updated attached vbms_functions_checkmail.php file.
Check the "Mail checking logs" in your ACP (under the vBulletin Mail System area). If there are no logs, then the cronjob probably isn't running. If there are logs, see if there are any errors in there. If it's checking the mail account fine and simply says there are no messages, check with a webmail to see if the catch-all account is even receiving mails.
It's a cron job running every minute; I don't know how intensive this really is though, I haven't done a lot of monitoring with that.
lol! Very sorry, it seems I left some of my debugging notes in there when I was trying to fix a bug. Go ahead and upload the attached file in your "includes" directory, that'll fix it.
Can you show me some screen shots, or get me a link to your forum? I'm a bit confused with what specifically is going on... is anything strange showing up in the "Mail checking logs" area? I can't say I'm much familiar with how vBulletin handles non-alphanumeric characters, so this could be interesting.
No, I didn't get it fixed, I did do some looking into what might be causing it before getting swamped with homework, so I really haven't gotten to do any major work on this the last few days. Sorry, it's on the top of my bugs-to-fix list.

Just tried it and I got the same error :( When I check line 791 in the file it references (vbms_class_installer.php) it says something about a password... I know my password is correct though.

The cronjob seems work fine, even didn't see any error from the logs, see below picture.
http://img10.imagepile.net/img10/33189picture.jpg

I'd check my webmail, there's 6 mail there, no idea why it didin't delivery to vbms.