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Originally posted by chaz7979
So if I just do the first 2 steps (simple install) I should be all set?

I have one concern 2. c. says

If you are doing a full install, you can skip this:

Go through the vB files and replace all occurances of
'mail(' with 'mime_mail('


All the files? There is a lot of files that make up VB. Do we really have to go through every single file? How many instances are there?

That really means 'Go through the vB files and replace all occurances of mail().. for which you wish to use the new MIME or SMTP functionality.'
The full install instructions actually list all the bits that need changing. That will include all the mail() calls. There's not really that many compared to some of the hacks here.

In your case, you should be able to just do the simle install (ie. steps 1 & 2. then follow the step in the instructions that changes the mail() call in functions.php which is 6a.

   A) ADMIN/FUNCTIONS.PHP

      OLD CODE
      --------
      mail($touser[email],$emailsubject,$emailmsg,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>");

      NEW CODE
      --------
      // START MIME/HTML/SMTP HACK
      eval("\$emailmsghtml = \"".gettemplate("email_notify_html",1,0)."\";");
      mime_mail($touser[email],$emailsubject,$emailmsg,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>", $emailmsghtml, $touser[emailtextonly]);
      // END MIME/HTML/SMTP HACK

Don't forget to create a template called email_notify_html.