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

[Cyricx]

As mentioned try fiddling with the name of your host server

Try:

localhost
mail.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com
your IP address

For some mail systems you may need to have the username be the full email address.

Try that and you should find the resolution

[justchecking]

Chris,

I sent you a PM. Basically I am not able to make it work. Let me know if you need access to my site's admincp.

thanks.
JC

[Cyricx]

Responded

PM me the details and I'll hop in and trouble shoot it

[Cyricx]

Looks like I resolved this problem.

In this instance the person had put in the username as:

username+mydomain.com

once the + symbol was changed to a @ the Done message came up on the scheduled task manager

[justchecking]

I still have some issues. Sorry to bother you so much. I sent you a PM.
thanks.
jc

Also one more question, do we require vbulletin version 3.6.8 for this mod to work. Mine is running 3.6..4 ?

Anyway I upgraded to 3.6.8, but still cannot get that elusive "done" message when "run now" is clicked.
Wonder how you were able to run it.

[Crys]

Hi Cyricx,

Any possibility the e-mail integration system would work without having all this html coding showing in the posts? For example, I keep getting this:

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 }

Just wish it would convert that into BB code so that it's seamless when it's posted on the forum.

Thanks!

~ Crys ^^

[justchecking]

It seems it ran. God knows how because whenever I said "run now" it just did not do anything. But I saw a message in the log today where it put some log messages saying "no access to post"..

Email Integration 07:32, 18th Nov 2007 Email Integration results No access to post sundar No access to post tom No access to post jerry No access to post tom No access to post
paul

All these users have enabled "get instant email notifications" in subscribe forum dialog.
Also their usergroups have been added to forum's email integration configuration part.

Any ideas.

thanks in advance.
jc

EDIT: I had wrong usergroup ids entered in the forum's email intergration configurations.

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by Crys

Hi Cyricx,

Any possibility the e-mail integration system would work without having all this html coding showing in the posts? For example, I keep getting this:

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 }

Just wish it would convert that into BB code so that it's seamless when it's posted on the forum.

Thanks!

~ Crys ^^

I've got this fixed in the next version. I'm hoping to get a few of the other bugs fixed before releasing it though and that's takin me a bit of time.

Worst case scenario I may just clean up the coede and release what I've got fixed so far.

I'll be travelling outta town this week though and have some huge tasks at work to do in december, so I really can't offer an ETA on the fix I'll see what I can do though.

[doubleclick]

I've read all these threads, and I understand that you have a job, a family, a non-profit org, etc. ahead of shaking out the bugs in this mod.

Truly, with all respect, I would suggest you call this BETA in the title. I, and other have run into more time consuming problems from installing this before it's really ready for prime time.

I have spent hours trying to get this to work, and in the end, am still having the same issues I had in my last post here, so I'm going to uninstall it. I will be reinstall it if/when you finish it, as it is a great idea, and will be a great addition someday.

In the meantime, I hope you consider adding "Beta" to the title in the same way that Colin F did in his vB Mail Reply. He calls his 0.7 BETA, which alerts us to expect challenges. When I saw your v2.2 I was expecting a lot more.

Thanks for your work, and hope to be using it someday.

.02,
DC

[justchecking]

Hi,

I think doubleclick's ida is good. Cyrix has done a great job. But more may be needed. to make it a stable rock solid product.

-jc