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

[ispconnect]

We love using Email Integration, but found a little nasty bug in product-emailreplyint.xml on line 1050 which puts the variable $encoding in the headers instead of it's value. Which causes many mailservers to bounce the e-mails sent.

$eiheaders .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: $encoding' . $delimiter;

The bug can be fixed by changing the single quotes ( ' ) to double quotes ( " )

$eiheaders .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: $encoding" . $delimiter;

[wmw_meyer]

Hello there,

I have an issue with receiving emails in Outlook 2003. Is there an FAQ or any documentation apart from this forum where I could search for a solution. Outlook shows the header information in the email body for both txt and HTML based email, something like this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Reply-To: xx@xx
References: <3.15@emailintegration> <3.36@emailintegration>
Message-Id: <20090512143308.6F20148001@xx>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) * on
xxx.local * at Tue, 12 May 2009 16:31:52 +0200
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-100.0, required=4.5, autolearn=disabled,
shortcircuit=ham
X-Spam-Report: * -100 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's
white-list
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2009 14:31:52.0703 (UTC) FILETIME=[649180F0:01C9D30E]

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have tried switching round some of the header lines but got a little confused over which ones are used. There are references in the crons/emailintegration.php files and in the product-emailreplyint.xml to script that generates emails. Can somebody explain? Strangely the emails that confirm an error work fine but the automated notification email regarding a new post don't.

Am I also right in thinking that if I need to translate the plugin into German most of the language changes should be carried out in: product-emailreplyint.xml

Is it also correct that the user that has posted a message gets an email reminder as well, Shouldn't the author be excluded from the notification even if he has subscribed to the thread. Have I missed a setting to disable this?

I'm slowly making friends with vBulletin and the plugin but not convinced yet
Many thanks
Nadine

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by ispconnect

We love using Email Integration, but found a little nasty bug in product-emailreplyint.xml on line 1050 which puts the variable $encoding in the headers instead of it's value. Which causes many mailservers to bounce the e-mails sent.

$eiheaders .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: $encoding' . $delimiter;

The bug can be fixed by changing the single quotes ( ' ) to double quotes ( " )

$eiheaders .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: $encoding" . $delimiter;

Will include in the next version when I get time to start working on it.. soon I hope :P

Originally Posted by wmw_meyer

Hello there,

I have an issue with receiving emails in Outlook 2003. Is there an FAQ or any documentation apart from this forum where I could search for a solution. Outlook shows the header information in the email body for both txt and HTML based email, something like this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Reply-To: xx@xx
References: <3.15@emailintegration> <3.36@emailintegration>
Message-Id: <20090512143308.6F20148001@xx>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) * on
xxx.local * at Tue, 12 May 2009 16:31:52 +0200
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-100.0, required=4.5, autolearn=disabled,
shortcircuit=ham
X-Spam-Report: * -100 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's
white-list
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2009 14:31:52.0703 (UTC) FILETIME=[649180F0:01C9D30E]

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have tried switching round some of the header lines but got a little confused over which ones are used. There are references in the crons/emailintegration.php files and in the product-emailreplyint.xml to script that generates emails. Can somebody explain? Strangely the emails that confirm an error work fine but the automated notification email regarding a new post don't.

Am I also right in thinking that if I need to translate the plugin into German most of the language changes should be carried out in: product-emailreplyint.xml

Is it also correct that the user that has posted a message gets an email reminder as well, Shouldn't the author be excluded from the notification even if he has subscribed to the thread. Have I missed a setting to disable this?

I'm slowly making friends with vBulletin and the plugin but not convinced yet
Many thanks
Nadine

I haven't experienced the outlook 2003 bug, but will try to replicate it.

You will need to translate it to german yes. But this should be done through your language manager. Then it will carry over for new versions too, otherwise you will have to redo the edits each time I send out a new version... well.. which should be happening more frequently soon... I hope

The user should be receiving an email too, this is the same as occurs with yahoo groups. There is an option, in the user's edit options to disable this. From my experience, very few turn this off as most want to be sure the message went through and are able to best do that by receiving their own post in an email. Otherwise, they aren't sure if it ever goes through.

[toivo]

Is anyone planning to use this add-on with moderated forums?

I have to migrate an email list to a moderated forum, and we have one unmoderated forum already in live production mode. So far I have managed to skip the sending of emails in emailintegration.php and send them through a custom hook and a cloned plugin in moderate.php instead. I am now working on a similar plugin for the inline moderation.

[wmw_meyer]

I am trying to find a good way of allowing users to sign up for an instant email message threads only, what would we the best way to do it:
Currently this is the case:
If a user is only subscribed to the thread, they get vbulletins default thread email.

[Tweeterest]

Originally Posted by Bob Ricci

One more thing... I seriously think that this should be a native feature of vB. When we try to sell vB to our clients they say that they can use Yahoo for free AND Yahoo emails them a digest daily, or they can get instant replies. The same with chat. Integrated and native to vB.

Diddo! BIIIIIIIG DIDDO! Waiting very anxiously for a 3.8.x version of EI... :up:

[bellsh83]

I got a problem . After install it to version 3.8.2 no new user can sign up. it shows database error.

Is the plugin suitable to version 3.8.2 ?

If you kindly told me where i have to check the error in you plugin so that i can help you to fix the bug

[Cyricx]

None of the plugins, intereact at all with the registration system.

I'd suspect this problem would have more to do with issues with other plugins you might have installed.

The best way to test this is to disable the prodcut and see if the bug still occurs.

Or post up the database error you are getting.

[bellsh83]

the new thread email notification is not sending. i tried both mail() and vb mail function. I am using the version 3.8.3 . The email is attached below. Can you kindly tell me why the error occur.

saif.live@yahoo.com
[Main Forum-t-621] ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p
(Please type your reply below this line!!) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (Please type your reply above this line!!) You may increase the space between the above lines as needed. ______________________ CURRENT MESSAGE FROM: ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ech p ______________________ This thread is located at: http://ambersight.com/forumstest2/showthread.php?t=621 To unsubscribe from this forum, please visit this page: http://ambersight.com/forumstest2/su...bscription&f=2 You may reply to this email to post a reply to the forum. You can also begin a new thread by sending an email to saif.live@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:41:36 -0400 From: saif Reply-To: saif.live@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: $encoding Message-Id: <621.1860@emailintegration> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: vBulletin Mail via PHP

[bellsh83]

In my database there is a fourm id missing so it shows error.