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Email Integration (New threads/replies by email) · **Released**: 07-01-2007

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

tekguru · #42 07-15-2007, 11:00 AM

Well a donation sent from me to help spur the coding on!

Will be superb to get this working. I only hope it suports both forum and usergroup permissions as I'd only be wanting to use it on some forums and for some usergroups.

Plus I hope that posting via email will be easy to do!

Good luck with the development!

RvG2 · #43 07-15-2007, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Just to give everyone an update.

My current build has all known bugs resolved. I'm currently workin on the attachment code. I'm bustin on this pretty hard to get a non-beta version released

I actually dreamed about php code last night

wow it looks like an RC now? LOL

Raven34 · #44 07-16-2007, 03:24 AM

Well this looks exactly like what im needing for our site as well. I would like to move our group from yahoo over to our forum site and this would be absolutely ideal. Looking forward to a full release.
Thanks for the hard work.
Raven

Cyricx · #45 07-16-2007, 11:31 AM

The RC should be released today or tomorrow. I'd put money on today

I just need to code the checks for attachment extensions

capsize · #46 07-17-2007, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyricx

The RC should be released today or tomorrow. I'd put money on today

I just need to code the checks for attachment extensions

Awesome!!! I'm waiting anxiously for the RC. We're in the process of transitioning from Yahoo! to vB and several of the regular posters have been complaining about not being able to use email to read/post messages in vB. This is a badly needed feature in vB and I'm so happy that you've taken on the task of implementing it.

Cyricx · #47 07-17-2007, 01:43 PM

The RC version is out!!!

*braces for the flood*

txspaderz · #48 07-17-2007, 01:44 PM

Oh Yea... Rc Baby!!!

radarhunter · #49 07-17-2007, 02:06 PM

sorry if i`m sounding like a no0b but does RC means the full version is out
and we can test it on a live board ?????/

Cyricx · #50 07-17-2007, 02:08 PM

Yes it means that all known integrity issues are solved.

But PLEASE backup your database as always before doing any modifications.

I've had a very limited number of beta testers. So I would suggest installing it, sending a few emails yourself, replying etc and playing around with it before you let your users know it's up and going

Tralala · #51 07-17-2007, 02:29 PM

How does this system know who to set as the poster of new threads and replies? Does it match username to the sender's email address?

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