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

[PaperQueen]

First and foremost, Cyricx, you rock.

I've combed through posts in this thread for the past half hour, but can't find one that says whether or not you built in the function requested by Tralala (#122) about allowing only new threads to trigger emails...? Like him, my concern is that if members become inundated with too many emails, it will detract from what that particular forum is about (essentially, a 911 service for retailers in search of out of stock product).

From the version history, it doesn't appear to be in yet, but it's something you were excited about early on, so thought it was worth asking.

Thanks tons for all you do!

[Cyricx]

It's not in yet, but it's coming.

I'm sooo close to being able to jump back on this bugger. I got a little bit of work to do with the online registration code I'm writing for gaea, and then a few small tweaks to some other custom code.

Then I'm on this... the light is showing in the tunnel!!

I'm just sorry it's taken so long to get back to this.. hopefully I can make some huge leaps into the next version and get some beta testers!

My biggest problem so far has been finding people to help beta test, so I end up having to release versions based on the bugs that just I can find

[PaperQueen]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

It's not in yet, but it's coming.
I'm just sorry it's taken so long to get back to this...

What? You have a life beyond all of us? Gadzooks!

No complaints here; would love to be a beta tester, but given the facts (a) this would be my first mod of any kind, and (b) I'm too "newbie" to risk it in a live forum, I'm a bit squeemish about volunteering (translated: chicken).

Hang in there!

[Cyricx]

Mostly what I need from beta testers is to come to my test site and try to break it

Break it on my site, and I can find the bugs easier then I can try to find how they happened on someone else's server

[Dr. Bantham]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Anyone had any issues since upgrading to 3.6.9 of vB? For me it still works but HTML format mails come through as pure HTML, not formatting correctly at all.

We've had to switch over to using text only mails.....

I have this identical problem.

[Cyricx]

Need to redo the file edit

[Dr. Bantham]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Need to redo the file edit

Ah, this was rubbed when I upgraded the site. Silly me! Thanks!

[riahiarshia]

Is anyone having problems with certain 'replies' not getting deleted from the 'inbox' ? It keeps showing up on the thread and an email is sent out to users; over and over and over again.

I have got to fix this. Please help...
-Alex

[AyeCapn]

Originally Posted by riahiarshia

Is anyone having problems with certain 'replies' not getting deleted from the 'inbox' ? It keeps showing up on the thread and an email is sent out to users; over and over and over again.

I have got to fix this. Please help...
-Alex

This happened to one p my users last week. I thought it was an issue with my host. I asked her to stop using the reply feature and it went away.

Juat one user experienced this issue.

We are on 3.7.1 PL1

[Cyricx]

I think it's tied to multipart vista emails.

I've got some new body decode code I'm working on that I'm hoping to solve that issue.

The decode file that I'm using now is an old pear package that has reports of bugs along those lines. Noone that I know of has been able to get the code to work so I'm again, building from scratch and I'm going to try more of imaps functions with some simple base php decode functions.

When you notice it happen, please verify that it is a multipart email in the header information of the email