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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 · #**522** 11-30-2007, 12:16 PM

In and loaded Chris looking good apart from the known issue with the BBCode Table Mod.

AyeCapn · #**523** 11-30-2007, 01:04 PM

donated-izzledededed!!!!111oneone1!!!eleventy

Cyricx · #**524** 11-30-2007, 07:46 PM

Thanks guys!!!

BBcode mod is definately on my todo list.

onehost · #**525** 12-01-2007, 02:28 AM

question: is this just a one way email??

I send email from my account to the forum, it imported just fine, but
when i replied, or even post a new thread, nothing was sent back??
any reason why...

and concerning the multiple email accounts, so if i have 50 categories,
well thats a lot more then what i would want to do as a user, save
all those emails...

Thank-You

dot2slash · #**526** 12-01-2007, 04:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Dot2slash -
Try using the new 2.3.1 xml

AWESOME !!

works great ... phrases read and shown in the admincp .. forums can be saved (but all email-settings where gone ... not so dramatic) ...

Donation (small one) on the way ;-) .... really good piece of work !

anyway why the options in a seperate tree instead of vboptions ?
makes no diffrence, im just courious

Cyricx · #**527** 12-01-2007, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onehost

question: is this just a one way email??

I send email from my account to the forum, it imported just fine, but
when i replied, or even post a new thread, nothing was sent back??
any reason why...

and concerning the multiple email accounts, so if i have 50 categories,
well thats a lot more then what i would want to do as a user, save
all those emails...

Thank-You

You need to be subscribed to the forum

Go to your user cp and under subscriptions there is a "Forum Subscription Manager".

Yes, if you have 50 forums that allow posting from email, you would need 50 different email accounts. Just like yahoo groups

Quote:

Originally Posted by dot2slash

AWESOME !!

works great ... phrases read and shown in the admincp .. forums can be saved (but all email-settings where gone ... not so dramatic) ...

Donation (small one) on the way ;-) .... really good piece of work !

anyway why the options in a seperate tree instead of vboptions ?
makes no diffrence, im just courious

Thank you for the donation!!!

You mean the forum settings help thinga machig? That's just a test script. People input their base settings there, then it scrolls through trying all the possible combinations and spits back out a page telling them what options to use in their forum manager to connect to the box.

Eliminates everyone having to manually try localhost and mydomain.com and the 6 different connection types etc

Does it for them

onehost · #**528** 12-01-2007, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyricx

You need to be subscribed to the forum

Go to your user cp and under subscriptions there is a "Forum Subscription Manager".

Yes, if you have 50 forums that allow posting from email, you would need 50 different email accounts. Just like yahoo groups

Im not sure if you have this option or not, how would i be able to strip
out links from emails coming into the forum? It would not hurt either to be
able to strip out words, terms, sentences also.

another option is to ban individual users from sending email into the forum,
for those that may take advantage of the email system, sending emails
that should not be sent...

Thank-You

capsize · #**529** 12-01-2007, 05:56 PM

I really like this new feature. I had previously tried to tell my users what to do to get instant email notification for each forum ... and it was a pain. This new feature in 2.3.1 is concise and self-explanatory and the "Set All None" and "Set All Instant" are exactly what I needed. Thanks!

capsize · #**530** 12-01-2007, 07:38 PM

Cyricx,
Any idea when you'll have attachments working? If you post a message with an attachment via email, the post is generated properly and has a "1" in the vb_post column "attach". There's also an entry created in the vb_attachment table for the attachment. Most of the fields in this table entry are correct (postid, userid, dateline). But there's no data at all stored in the "filedata" column for this entry. So the attachment is effectively discarded even though the post shows that it has an attachment. In my case, I've got attachment processing enabled, but didn't make any of the changes to allow unknown type attachments. The attachment type I am using to test with is a small .jpg file. Posting with this attachment via the forums webpage works fine. But via email it doesn't. This problem isn't new to 2.3.1. It hasn't worked in any previous rev I've tested either. 2.3.1 looks functional enough for me to deploy on my live board if attachments work.

dot2slash · #**531** 12-02-2007, 02:44 AM

attachments... work fine here .. with just the issue that picture-thumbnails not crerated.
its annoying start maintance scripts manually ... to get this updated ...
but thats okay for now ... a not finished feature with a solution ;-)

hope later this will be runns automaticly.

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