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

[columbusgeek]

No mine is more smushed.

Dear matt, Erwin has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Broken formatting - in the bla blah blah This thread is located at: http://blahblahblah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=919&goto=newpost Here is the message that has just been posted: *************** This has been corrected. *************** There may also be other replies, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again. All the best, jooXter forums ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscription information: To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit this page: http://blhablahblah.com/forum/subscription.php?do=removesubscription&type=thread&subscriptionid=629&auth=3a9c63bc6e81a01842981db98a354f26 To unsubscribe from ALL threads, please visit this page: http://blahblahblah.com/forum/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription&folderid=all

looks like a different issue then.

for the record I could not edit this code to my bbcode_quote, since my template did not have this line.

In:

BBCode Layout Templates -> bbcode_quote



**************

FIND:

**************

	<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">



**************

REPLACE IT WITH:

**************

	<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0">

[FCS-Webmaster]

Hm...yeah it seems so. Wish you good luck for a solution of your problem. Why don`t you have anymore this line in your template? A hack?!

[columbusgeek]

No its about the same content. Not sure why this forum is stuffing it into one giant code line though.

[FCS-Webmaster]

Is there any help out there?!
Mr Cyricx!? Please help me out.

[Cyricx]

This html email stuff just isn't working out well.

I'm working now on a next version to address several of the bugs mentioned.

As well as I think what I'm going to do here is go with a more vbulletin friendly formatted plain text email. And then down the road I can add a html format one back for those that want it and it would be user selectable.

Anyway, bear with me, I'm digging into the code this week.

Sorry for the delay in responding, I had to write a huge interface this last two weeks

I do have the test site back up. PM me for details if you like Those of you who were on the old test site, have the details still. It's the same, though everything was reset

[tekguru]

Good news Chris, keep us posted on how it is going!

[FCS-Webmaster]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

This html email stuff just isn't working out well.

I'm working now on a next version to address several of the bugs mentioned.

As well as I think what I'm going to do here is go with a more vbulletin friendly formatted plain text email. And then down the road I can add a html format one back for those that want it and it would be user selectable.

Anyway, bear with me, I'm digging into the code this week.

Sorry for the delay in responding, I had to write a huge interface this last two weeks

I do have the test site back up. PM me for details if you like Those of you who were on the old test site, have the details still. It's the same, though everything was reset

Thank you very much and sorry If I might had forced you!
Good to hear you don`t let us alone

[mykkal]

Dude, your talking about taking the HTML feature away?

Don'r do that. If it takes you longer to release then fine but don't force us to downgrade. I depend on the HTML feature.

Originally Posted by FCS-Webmaster

Thank you very much and sorry If I might had forced you!
Good to hear you don`t let us alone

[edgeyveggie]

Would this add-on make it possible for me to email a picture from my phone and post a new thread with the picture in it? Or is it solely for replying to threads?

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Dude, your talking about taking the HTML feature away?

Don'r do that. If it takes you longer to release then fine but don't force us to downgrade. I depend on the HTML feature.

Noted. I'll see what I can do

Originally Posted by edgeyveggie

Would this add-on make it possible for me to email a picture from my phone and post a new thread with the picture in it? Or is it solely for replying to threads?

Hmm.. I'm not sure how possible it would be. Right now, I do not think it would work that way unless your phone was setup as your athorization email account for your username

However, there are addons for alot of the galleries like photopost has one that lets people post pictures from their phones.

I would guess it to be a long ways down the line before I would consider adding in any kind of mobile phone tie in. Certainly could be cool though. Messaging from your cellphone to post and receive posts.. gives me chills , though I couldn't even imagine how long it would be before I got to that point LOL.

I'm still battling with just getting this bastard to go through the 1billion different email browsers cleanly