Email posts into forum
 

*phew*

Here it is people, the hack I use at vBulletin.org that allows you to send replies to the thread through email.
I've rewritten most of it in the last couple of days, killing bugs and making the code more readable with comments.

Installation is pretty easy, download the attaced ZIP file and read readme.txt.

This hack is provided as is and with no support whatsoever!
DO NOT email, private message or contact me through any other means about this hack. You will be ingored and receive bad jake karma! (provided graciously by jake Inc.)
Bug reports are welcome.

I hope none of you will need any support, this is not a space ship and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to install it.

[high]* FireFly waits for someone to request a screen shot... :dead:
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Enjoy! :)

[high]* Wildthinks :paranoid: :surprised: :p request a screen shot...[/high]

Chen can I have your email password so I can try it out ?

Ermmmmm

I'll get my coat then

HM

Thank you kindly for sharing it.

Think that file is required??? :D


I know I know, no support but it would be nice to get all the files :D

found the mimeDecode.php. But itself requires pear.php and cannot find that one.

Ok, uploaded a new file to the first post. Make sure you download the new zip file, then upload mimeDecode.php to your forums folder.

Lionel: This is a modified version that doesn't require PEAR. You can get PEAR from http://pear.php.net/ if you really must know. :)

OK, I am using bigmailbox and my MX are pointed to them. Therefore all emails addresses @mysite.com come from bigmailbox.

Anybody, not Firefly :ermm: , is there a way to handle the below?

(7) Your part is done, now you need to ask your host to setup an email pipe on the server from newpost@example.net (this is the email you chose in step (2)) to getpost.php (the path from step (5)).

<-same problem here-> :confused:

whats a mail pipe? can i just make the thing in my virtual control pannel for my domain?

*alluleia at this hack*

great job... im going to install it on my latest project...

Thanx for sharing this hack & your documentation, Chen - that was quiet earlier as you promised :)

But...okay..in german may be everything sounds even more strange, ...but can anyone explain what the heck an eMail-pipe is ? :confused:

Chen, we all read that you don?t wanna give any support for this hack - but could you give us a little help and explain what this eMail-pipe is ? As you can see many off us ran into this problem and a short description in the readme.txt could lighten up the dark :nervous:

TIA,
Marv.

:rambo:
here comes Firefly with the help.

:p

Nope, me instead :p

Actually I can't provide any help, but I would like to say this is pretty cool and I'm sure my members would enjoy it. I haven't used it yet at VB.org, but I haven't had a need to.

Where?

*Looks up at the sky*:D

Thanks Chen...Real good:)

Satan

whats an Email PIPE?

/me getting annoyed now... seriously PERIOD.

I guess an eMail-Pipe is a server sided option which let emails from a particular account point to a shell-script.

..and I guess only 5 percent of us get access to the shells or have a dedicated server ... :(

On most shared servers email-pipes are forbidden because they?ve been used in the past as some kind of attack-tools. Btw the?are listed in/as the "Network Attack Signatures " . That?s the reason my Hosting-Provider won?t support this feature. :dead:

Any chance to get this fabulous hack to work in another way ?

it would be rather helpful if Chen did offer support :mad:

I'm not in the mood, shove it.

That's pretty much correct. You need to ask your host to set it up, you can't do it yourself (unless you own the server).

ahh very nice you are a god i will install when i get my site all ready to go and get that pipe going

lol :D That is what you get for being a snot and pushy globalwin ;)

hmm.. so far: the last two hours i was on the phone, checking german providers for supporting email-pipes, but... hell what a f[***] ! , ... no chance.

Does anybody know how people like me - which can´t get email-pipes from their hosters - could get this script up and running ?

Chen, don´t wanna bother you..but any chance that you´ld do some coding for the other "95 percent-users" without email-pipes ? Or anyone else able to do this ? Even would pay for it...

Could bit my ass for being in germany..,
Marv

*bump it up..*

lmfao at moody firefly... whats up man?

LOL yeh, my guess is that he is moody cause his Mail Server is down :D, am I right?

Times like this im glad i have access to a dedicated server, my freind owns it but gave me shell and every thing, i can do any there there :)

you guys may want to go take a look at this hack

[vB v2.2.5] Reply by email v. 0.1

I have using it he released it in the beta forum, it has been running perfect for me, not trying to fish firefly's hack im sure its good and all, but for those of you who want a similar hack with support, just use the one im using

hypedave,

as you can see here at vb.org the hacks aren?t simuliar. Firefly included some thing which are missing in your hack (which I installed before, too) . Firefly?s hack has options two set email-passwords as another security-feature and the best of all - you dont have to run the mailreply.php manual. His hack runs automaticly :)

well that I didnt know :hurt: , I did not write the hack, but as to my understanding I do have an updated version that has two set of emails for security :p . not to go off topic but I will try this one out on my other forum

Great hack!, but can I use it to play the [url=https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40651]Guessing Game[/ur] by remote email from my cell phone while driving?

;)

Can someone help me setup e-mail piping??? I have no clue.

Is this customizable so that only Admins can use this function? :)

Any idea why all my posts get posted twice?

I would love to have this hack working ( anyone but FireFly?? )

I have followed instruction the the CaPitaL T and an email pipe has been setup etc. But when someone receives a mail, it doesnt include the message of the post to read.

And the reply sends a Mail Delivery error:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

pipe to |/home/mtbnet/public_html/getpost.php
generated by postreply@mtbnetworx.com
Child process of virtual_address_pipe transport returned 69 (could mean service or program unavailable) from command:
/home/mtbnet/public_html/getpost.php

Looks like a cracking hack, if it works :)

Isn't it usually just easier to log onto the board and send a reply, than to log onto your email?

Erm.... you would be correct in saying that it is, easy to log onto the board - but isnt this the whole point of this hack - I`ll explain for you ;)

When you click email notification, you get a mail in your email client stating that a reply has been posted to your post. You would then have to visit the board to find out what the reply was.

With this hack - the reply is automatically sent to you in the email - and because you are more likely to open your email client and read that somebody has replied - it is convenient to just click reply from an already opened email client and send your reply by mail. EASY ;)

:alien:

@MarkyBuzz: One thing I have to say, though, is that I bet lots of people will still want to see if their post has been posted properly (when using vB codes / HTML) :p

But nevertheless, I bet this post will help out lots of 56kers :D

I have it installed and works like a charm but I have a question. My mods and I have a shortcut (admin options) to move the post to the garbage can. Where only we can then see it (for later use). I changed the email template to include the post in the email. If we reply to the post, will it email them with what we put? Is there away to do checks like everything else to see if they can view the thread before it shows or emails them.

i had the same problem. try adding /usr/bin/php before the script name e.g. your mail entry may look like this -

postreply@mtbnetworx.com "|/usr/bin/php /home/mtbnet/public_html/getpost.php"

I installed the hack and checked everything over twice! Then I had my host install the email pipe exactly as directed in the readme.txt, and yet the hack refuses to work.

I just keep getting these errors:

My host insists that everything is installed correctly.