What is the exact text of the failure notice? Are you sure you have a catch-all account?

is it possible to get the vbms for vbulletin 3.0.x anywhere ?

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great, that was quick, thanks

I believe he means open souce as in the vBulletin community would help to build it for the vBulletin community.

The SPECIFIC community being the ones who have actually PAID for vBulletin. He doesn't want vBulletin pirates to have easy access to it. Yes, there's no doubt that eventually a paying vBulletin license holder will hand over the code to a pirate, but there's nothing wrong with discouraging them a bit.

Understandable. However, it might be wise to choose a better place for trying to organize any reasonably sized group of people willing to fix and improve this.

Throwing some buggy code into a release forum here won't get anyone interested in helping. You need a centralized location to make plans from and a way to discuss various aspects of this thing in separate areas... That can't happen here and I doubt it will happen at all, based on the "gotta keep it away from people without vB!" attitude I see here. That seems selfish and counter productive. Is someone really going to obtain a hacked version of vBulletin because of this mod?

I don't see a problem at all with using the existing VBMS forum and organizing stuff from there. If you're really that paranoid about non vB owners seeing everything, throw a password on the forums, put the password in a PHP box here and away you go.

It's been two weeks since this was made "open source" and I haven't seen so much as one person saying "okay, let's get organized".

If I had any kind of coding ability, I'd be the first to step up and take this under my wing. I don't have that ability, but I do have the willingness to help and will do whatever it takes to get this working.

You described the situation quite well, and I agree that it will help. Unfortunately, the solution of a password is secure at first but fails immediately once the password gets out.

I am working on connecting my site to vB.org to provide a casual authentication system, This way, the discussion can take place in its own forum, or whole set of forums (hell, maybe the existing forums currently only for customers), and still be restricted to vBulletin license holders.

Several fraudulent purchases of vBMS were made (stolen credit card, hacked PayPal account, etc.). I've also seen literally hundreds of pirated vBulletin forum installations. Finally, vBMS, or at least its concept of providing administration-free web mail to forum users, is popular and often-requested. I have no doubt that it is the correct decision to insist that only those most likely to own vBulletin licenses can access the product. As you note, the only problem is balancing this need of protecting both vBMS and vBulletin while still making it easy for as many people as possible to collaborate on the project.

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Well said :)

I'm glad to hear that efforts are still being made. It's hard work to maintain something of this size on one's own, so I congratulate you on what you've accomplished so far. If there's any way I can help, any way at all, let me know and I'll be happy to assist.

I have this running on my 3.6 system (installed under 3.5) with some minor modifications.

line 74 in vbms_new.php:

line 31 in vbms_class_mail_message.php:

and I run the vbms_cron.php as a cron:

I'd be glad to pitch in where I could as time permits; our users have used this for some time with no problems and other than these few changes for 3.6, everything seems to be working fine now.

are those all the changes? Thanks