Major Additions - Email Integration (New threads/replies by email)

This mod is based off of the Mail Reply modification by Colin F to which I have obtained permission to rewrite and release.

This modification allows you to mimic email lists such as yahoo groups through your forums!

After installing this modification you will have new settings in your forum manager where for each forum you can enable this modification and setup a separate email address to use for each forum that you have this enabled for.

Just like how there is a separate email address for each yahoo group.

After doing so, members can subscribe to each forum that this mod is enabled for to receive notifications for new threads and replies.

Any posts in that forum, will be sent to them via email. (Example email attached below). The users can then reply to that email (which will then be processed and posted to the forums through the cron job that runs every 10 minutes), or they can send a new email to the email address and a brand new thread will be created!

Essentially mimicing an email list! Suddenly those users that hate forums, can still be dragged into the conversations and help keep the forum's activity level up!


BUGS!
These are the known bugs to date:

• Confirmed bug that email processing does not handle Japanese characters.

Unsupported Items
These are the items that are not currently supported:

• Some custom bbcode modifications will not display like they do on the forums in the html emails. Like glow, and the table mod.

TO UPGRADE

• Please see the file in the zip for upgrading!! If your upgrading from version 2.3.X you will need to reverse some file edits that are no longer nessecary!

NEW INSTALL

• See instructions in the zip file.

VERSION HISTORY!
(See the file in the zip for a complete history!)

• 2.6 Release
  • Bug Fixes
    • Joining an unmoderated public group will now auto subscribe you per the usergroup settings.
    • NO CONFLICTS with Instant Thread Subscription! See details in below post.
  • New Stuff
    • User Option Allow Auto Subscribe - This is an admin allowable, user option that let's the user choose to not be auto subscribed.
    • User Option not receive own posts - A new user option that lets them select to NOT receive their own posts via email.
    • Editted the phrase for the Auto Subscription script to tell people what to do if there are no listings.
    • Added error checks when saving a usergroup for if auto subscriptioin is entered with a forumid for a forum that does not have email integration enabled and also checks that the usergroup you are saing is entered in the forum manager as allowed to use email integration.
• 2.6.1 Release (BETA VERSION)
  • Hot Fix
    • It appears I was unseting a variable too soon. I've corrected this and it has resolved the issue with multiple posted replies on my test server.

Most of these will be slow to make it in til I know I've got the code to handle just about every type of email we could receive But in anycase, here are the ideas for future versions!

• End User Option to subscribe to just receive new thread emails, or receive all new thread & reply emails (current version does all new threads & replies).

Thanks to RedTyger, Bob Denny, Ed Kohwley and Chris McKeever for their additions and assistance with portions of this code.

Huge thanks also goes to the many individuals that have helped test various incarnations of this mod.

MAD PROPS TO: cgmckeever for a great quoting regex for the old format, and all the mods at www.4winmobile.com for helping test version 2.4 prior to release!!

You guys rock!

Please feel free to donate to my continued work on this modification!! It let's me spend more time on it!
Make a Donation!

Version 2.6 will work with both 3.6.8 and 3.7!

The #.X versions are the solid tested versions.

The #.X.X versions are the beta versions. New features and bug fixes will be worked in there and then when I have a solid version it'll be released as the next #.X

Thank you!!

~ Cyricx

[quiklink]

Tried this last suggestion, not working. What I do notice is that is does not appear to be recognizing the connection type and instead keeps trying to connect via standard POP3 even if it is set to something else in the forum.

[quiklink]

Update to last post. Yup, you are calling the wrong variable when setting up the $connectmailserver statement. It should be ei_connectiontype.

[Cyricx]

checking

[quiklink]

Still doesn't fix the overall problem though.

[Cyricx]

Please try the new uploaded zip.

You were correct. The reason most were not experiencing it is that the field defaults to 0 and most people will not need to change their settings from pop3.

[quiklink]

Already changed it here, but it still doesn't stop the failed stream error no matter what it's set to.

[Cyricx]

I'll have to see your settings to figure out what the modification is doing wrong

I can't guess at what your settings are unfortunately

Can you send me a login via pm?

Update: since the 1.5 fix, it correctly recognizes connection types. On my home site, I have 4 forums enabled, when I change the connection type for one of them I get the errors. I would suggest running a global query something like

update forum set ei_active = 0;

and then go back and edit one forum and play with it's connection type, my guess is you may have accidently turned on a second forum as active

in future versions I'll code in a die loop so if it gets that error it'll like send an email to the admin or something, *shrug* I'll figure something out

[vocoder]

update to my issue (i selected IMAP, but it was using the settings for POP3)

the only way I could fix it was to actually go into the emailintegration php file and make it so POP3 settings used IMAP settings instead...then it worked fine. And I want to stress that my forum was set to use IMAP.

[Cyricx]

vocoder, please try the file from the new zip version 1.5

There was an error in the cron file that was not correctly viewing peoples connection types

[subnet_rx]

Hmm, well, it looks like needing the imap extension is going to stop me from using this. I do run on a vps, but php was not compiled with the imap extension and php.net is telling me I have to have other software to support it before compiling php with it. I do have some users that have internet blocked at work that this could be useful for, but being unsure how many people would use it, I don't think I want to risk the downtime.