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

[Crys]

You need a separate e-mail address for each sub-forum.

Btw, any updates on my previous post?

Thanks!

~ Crys ^^

[MikeH2911]

Originally Posted by Crys

You need a separate e-mail address for each sub-forum.

Btw, any updates on my previous post?

Thanks!

~ Crys ^^

I have a separate email address for each sub forum, it's not working

Mike

[matthew1]

Hi I was wondering if anyone had a problem with html and this mod. Most of the emails I receive are in html and they post to my forum in plain text....anyone else have this problem and better yet has anyone found a solution.

Thanks

[MikeH2911]

Originally Posted by MikeH2911

I have a separate email address for each sub forum, it's not working

Mike

Ok, so it worked, it just took a day for the email to arrive for some reason, weird.

Mike

[Crys]

Originally Posted by Crys

Yes, I tried to subscribe to the forum but the reply e-mail that it provides shows the main forum e-mail and not the forum specific e-mail. I also tried replying to that e-mail, just in case, but it never showed up, as a reply, in that specific thread.

~ Crys ^^

Is Cyricx around??

[doubleclick]

Originally Posted by MikeH2911

A little help, the hack is installed and working just fine, but only in one forum. The test forum I created to see if this hack works (a hidden section of the forums), in the actual forum I want it to work in nothing happens despite all the settings and permissions being identical.

Any idea why?

Mike

I'm having the same issue.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=430

Hope cyricx checks in soon.

DC

[MikeH2911]

Originally Posted by doubleclick

I'm having the same issue.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=430

Hope cyricx checks in soon.

DC

I recently had false hope that it was fixed as I received an email from the broken forum. Only none of the other three subscribed users received anything.

Mike

[kube]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=433

is still the problem, and if I sent an html email I always get the head of the mail posted:

BODY { FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif } TABLE { MARGIN-TOP: 1em; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66 } TD { FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif } TH { FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif }

[techman41973]

Not sure if the Instant E-mail Integration supports this.
I want Vbulletin to send out an instant e-mail or daily digest for ANY new post or reply to a post. I don't want to rely on users going in and manually suscribing to each forum or thread. I need something that automatically subscribes them or allows the administrator to automatically subscribe all users. Why do I need this? Most users will not check the website regularly. An e-mail notification that there is new activity is essential for maintaining contact between with my users. Even if the mod just sent out an e-mail that says, there is a new post or reply on the forum. Is this possible with any of the mods?

[ChurchMedia]

Originally Posted by techman41973

Not sure if the Instant E-mail Integration supports this.
I want Vbulletin to send out an instant e-mail or daily digest for ANY new post or reply to a post. I don't want to rely on users going in and manually suscribing to each forum or thread. I need something that automatically subscribes them or allows the administrator to automatically subscribe all users. Why do I need this? Most users will not check the website regularly. An e-mail notification that there is new activity is essential for maintaining contact between with my users. Even if the mod just sent out an e-mail that says, there is a new post or reply on the forum. Is this possible with any of the mods?

This mod will do what you want. It sends out emails with the actual content of the posts. Your members can reply to that email and it will automatically post to your forum. In the usergroups settings, you can automatically subscribe new users to certain forums. Members subscribe to forums, not threads. Once subscribed to a forum they will get all posts in that forum by email.

I put together a tutorial for my members so they know how to use this system:
http://www.churchmedia.net/CMN/vbart...le&articleid=6

I've been using it for at least a month with little to no problems. It's ready for use on a live forum -- no problem.