vB POP3 / IMAP Email Client 1.4 - Web-based access to POP email accounts
 

vB POP3 / IMAP Email Client 1.4 - by Dr. Erwin Loh

vB3 version here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=66247

World's easiest hack to install! Upload a file, and you're done! No templates to add, no files to edit!!! :cool:

Ever wanted to access your POP3 or IMAP email account when you are away from your Outlook Express? Sick of Hotmail and free web-based email addresses, and want to just stick with your ISP email account? Want to be able to use a web-based interface? Want to be able to integrate this interface into your forums and offer it to your members?

Here we have it - I've created a file that does all that.

Features:

1. Only 1 file to upload, no templates, no file edits!
2. Automatic integration into your forums, with your forum colors and layout.
3. Accesses any POP3 or IMAP email account.
4. Ability to bypass any firewalls that any mail servers may have.
5. Ability to READ, REPLY, REPLY ALL, DELETE, FORWARD, and COMPOSE emails using the interface.
6. Ability to read HTML emails.
7. Ability to ATTACH files.
8. Ability to VIEW / DOWNLOAD ATTACHMENTS.
9. Ability to show HEADERS of emails.
10. Ability to allow certain usergroups access to this.
11. Ability to allow or disallow users from changing their FROM: email address
12. Ability to let yourself change the FROM: email address at at all times.
13. Your user can use this to access their ISP email account, or (Yahoo email or Hotmail premium accounts) via your forums!


Installation:

Upload email.php into your forums directory, link to it, and you've got an instant web-based POP3/ IMAP email interface in your forums!

Nothing else to do!

By default, this allows registered members, moderators and admins access only. You can edit the top of email.php to add or remove usergroupids easily.

Settings:

At the top of the PHP file, you can change the variables to:

1. Decide which usergroups can use this
2. Allow or disallow the changing of the FROM: email address (security update)
3. Exempt yourself so you can always change the FROM: email address

Requirements:

1) This hack requires PHP 4 or higher on your server.

2) This hack requires you to have IMAP support compiled with PHP on your server. If you get a error like "imap_open undefined function", then you dont have IMAP support. Sorry!


Please click the install link at the bottom of this thread for updates.

Enjoy! :)

Add-On (OPTIONAL) - Username and Mail Server saved in Member Profile:

To make the Username and Password become part of a member's profile (I don't suggest to include password as well as staff can then have access to this), just create 2 custom profile fields in your Admin CP - one for Username, the other for Mail Host Server. Make sure they do not show up in the user's profile.

Then, note down the custom profile ID number of each of the 2 custom profile fields (hover your mouse over the link to each, and it's the number at the very end of the URL in the status bar).

Then, in email.php, find:

Underneath, add:

Change x to the ID number of the username profile ID, and y to the ID number of the host mail server profile ID. Done!

Updates

Version 1.1 - Fixed <td> errors. Fixed error where message did not show when attachment present.

Version 1.2 - Security update - Added settings at the top of the PHP file that you can change to allow or disallow users from changing their FROM: email address. You can exempt yourself and always be able to change your own FROM: email address by modifying the userid here as well.

Version 1.3 - Fixed header text colors - Minor cosmetic improvements - Fixed Attachment Viewer and Downloader!!!

Version 1.4 - Fixed PHP header and cookie problem for certain servers that prevented login.

Screenshots:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/01/12.gif Attachment: email.jpg
Courtesy of irn-bru.

Download:

When downloading, make sure it's the latest version - 1.4 (it will say this at the top of the PHP file).

Installed! :)

Thank you for sharing this
Kars

This sounds great :) I am definately going to install it in the morning when it's not 1 am ;) I'm going to bed soon

Though, I would love screen shots, this is so easy to install and uninstall so it's not a big deal

Very nice!

*EDIT
Decided to upload anyway XD took about a second!
Worked perfectly! Very very nice!

:cool:

ohohohohohoh really good idea! ^_^

/me click install

Installed, Thanks!

thanks *installed*

Screenshot

when i put this on, and i put the info in, i got error 404

http://www.SITE.com/email.php?CMD=cookie

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

I have the same problem! I have also installed vbportal!

cu

Jochen

I get an error as well - but not quite the same thing. Instead, if I pick POP3 and put anything or nothing in the other fields, I get this error:
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/email.php on line 601
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Line 601 is:
if ($opt=="POP3") $mbox = imap_open("{".$host.":110/pop3}".urldecode($folder), $user, $pass);

If I choose IMAP, it comes up with the same error for 602:

elseif ($opt=="IMAP") $mbox = imap_open("{".$host."}".$folder, $user, $pass);

Thanks for any help.

WOW! you are the man
this is fantastic

thank you!

hmmm I just tried installing and I get the 404 error too

hmmm now im getting this error:

"Warning: Couldn't open stream {mail.pdm-racing.com:110/pop3}INBOX in /home/alkatraz/www/board/email.php on line 601"

yep, same here.

I'm getting the same error as Smoothie and the others.

For me it works like a charm. :)
Is there a way to store the data (Username, password, server) for the users?? Or is this a high security-problem??

Kars

I have installed it,

but i think he doesn't look in wich dir it is in

Because my forum is located in www.site.com/forum/ and when you login, it goes to www.site.com/ and not to /forum/ dir

Well,

i fixed problem one ^^

but i still can't login to my pop3 boxes.
Also, what would be nice, that an user can give in in his profile his email server and login name, that he only has to type his password.

Just a thougt

Nice script though, when it would work as promised.

I don't get a 404, but I do get a blank page after trying to log in

And, when I go to email.php, the Username field contains "Array".

The magic man! ;) What did you do to get it working? ;)

17 installs, and one working.. wOOt!

LOL @ Smoothie. What are the odds? ;)

Ok didn't work to start with for me.

I got it working by doing a find and replace for all ../email.php to ../forums/email.php

/forums being my forums directory.

Hope that helps some people.

You can test it out at http://www.alternativenation.net/forums/email.php

but you would need to be a member :S

Ok, that helped on the page not found error. Now it get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /xxxxxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/forum/email.php on line 601

I was using POP3 when I got this.

I only got that message when I used the wrong Username:, Server: or Password: details

I just tried it again and I get the same error. Everything is correct. The only thing it might be is my pop3 server name is like this:

pop.server.com

Dont know why it works, but it works! ;)
I?ve just copy the file to my forum-dir and browse it...
The Data i use: my Username, my Server (like pop.server.com), and my Password.

Idea: Why don?t make 3 Profilefields for the user like: Email-Username, Server, Password and than use this as input for the fields? So the user has his Data cached. :)
[high]* Kars10 Copperfield[/high]

Mines like that too mail. however I have to put my fullemail in for some accounts in stead of just the bit before the @ for example

kosh@.inyourcity.com instead of just kosh as the username. (Note I stuck an extra . in there to stop spam)

I've tried everything. I can't get past that error. :(

Probably have to wait for Erwin then :(

hmm im gonna give this a try but having checked it on ghostsuit`s site i enetered all my data and it worked

and my mail server is set up mail.kjshsk.co.uk

Okay, I've fixed that directory path bug. :)

I forgot to update it to make it workable for some forums. It now uses the $bburl variable - make sure your forum path is set correctly in your Admin CP vB Options section. :)

For those with problems, download the new email.php (making sure you refresh the cache). Also, this uses cookies, so make sure you close all windows, upload the new email.php and open a new window to login again.

EDIT: Make sure you empty your browser cache when attempting to download again - otherwise, the email.php is in your temporary folder and will be the OLD one. :)

Another great hack from Erwin! Thanks mate

Not a bad idea... easily done... but my aim was to make this hack the easiest hack to install, while having great features. :)

Really? Looks fine on my forums.

NOTE: This hack requires PHP 4 or higher to work. Check to see if this is the case if you are having streaming problems.

Also, make sure you use the latest email.php file (I just uploaded it) if you have path problems - make sure you clear your browser cache.

Maybe like that way Erwin?

Link...

Kars :)

Done. I've included instructions on how to do this in the first post. Untested, but should work.

I'm still getting this error with the new file:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /xxxxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/forum/email.php on line 601

Me too

And once again, when I go to email.php, the username-field contains the word "Array". I don't think it's supposed to contain that, is it?

Pop3-box information:
username: xxx@yyy.nl (or xxx%yyy.nl would work too, if the @ should be a problem, but I've tried that and didn't work either)
server: pop.yyy.nl
password: zzz
(Where xxx, yyy and zzz stand for something else ofcourse ;))

Server information:
OS: FreeBSD 4.5
Apache: 1.3.22 (Unix)
PHP: 4.2.1
MySQL: 3.23.49

Worked great from the start here! :)

You're one of the lucky few. ;)

Working - as soon as I remembered the right password :doh:

I was getting the <TD error too, but on page refresh it was fine