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

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Your editting the data in the row, not the field itself.

On the left hand dropdown of tables, select "Usergroup", and then click "Structure" in the main screen along the top bar.

Now scroll down and put a checkmark next to ei_forumid and then click the pencil on the bottom.

Attached is a screenshot of the last step.

From there it'll open up to where you can easily change the char limit to 250.

Still doesn't work.

On Edit:

It was received. However it doesn't take out the Email address where it came form.

[Cyricx]

I was under the understanding the issue you had was not being able to add enough forumids in the usergroup manager to the autosubscribe option.

Issues with the preg_match, things needing to be removed from the text of emails prior to posting or oddities in characters like %20 etc, will be resolved in the next version for 3.8 . I'll be going a new route of requiring the pear package for mimedecoding to be installed. I spent way too much time trying to work on the decoder. I'm going to focus on the integration for the next version. Please be patient on preg_match issues and worry not.. pear packages are extremely easy to install

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

I'm completely stumped. I've uninstalled and reinstalled on 3.8.3 and all of the fields are created. Do you use a table prefix?

Yes actually... becuase the site is integrated phpfox the vbulletin tables and phpfox tables have been merged into one database.

But that is common with integrations. Can the software not handle this?

I do remember that email integration was installed before we merged the phpfox (a social network) & vbulletin into one huge DB. It was working until we upgraded. I'll also add that since the integration we haven't had to make any special steps installing plugins.

Do you want to take a look? It must be something small. This is the first pluggin i've had trouble installing since we integrated. I'm not sure that has anything to do with it. There's over 5 complicated pluggins working on our installation 3.8.1.

[joyfulmiller]

This is likely a stupid question (but I'm such a newbie at this I freely admit I really have no clue), but I'm assuming that with this mod installed, the option "instant email notification" should show up in the drop down menu that loads when you click Subscribe under Forum Tools. Am I right?

I'm asking because I just installed this mod on my 3.8.3, and I've gotten no error anywhere, but I've also not seen ANY changes at all. I still only have the daily and weekly options for subscribing to forums.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

I was under the understanding the issue you had was not being able to add enough forumids in the usergroup manager to the autosubscribe option.

Issues with the preg_match, things needing to be removed from the text of emails prior to posting or oddities in characters like %20 etc, will be resolved in the next version for 3.8 . I'll be going a new route of requiring the pear package for mimedecoding to be installed. I spent way too much time trying to work on the decoder. I'm going to focus on the integration for the next version. Please be patient on preg_match issues and worry not.. pear packages are extremely easy to install

I'll be waiting. Thanks because I love this MOD. I'll give you a few $$$ after it's updated!

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Yes actually... becuase the site is integrated phpfox the vbulletin tables and phpfox tables have been merged into one database.

But that is common with integrations. Can the software not handle this?

I do remember that email integration was installed before we merged the phpfox (a social network) & vbulletin into one huge DB. It was working until we upgraded. I'll also add that since the integration we haven't had to make any special steps installing plugins.

Do you want to take a look? It must be something small. This is the first pluggin i've had trouble installing since we integrated. I'm not sure that has anything to do with it. There's over 5 complicated pluggins working on our installation 3.8.1.

I'd love to take a peek. I can manually add the fields in if needed. But I'd rather try to figure out why it's not installing right.

Originally Posted by joyfulmiller

This is likely a stupid question (but I'm such a newbie at this I freely admit I really have no clue), but I'm assuming that with this mod installed, the option "instant email notification" should show up in the drop down menu that loads when you click Subscribe under Forum Tools. Am I right?

I'm asking because I just installed this mod on my 3.8.3, and I've gotten no error anywhere, but I've also not seen ANY changes at all. I still only have the daily and weekly options for subscribing to forums.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Missed the template edits in the install.txt file. You should also ensure that you did the file edit as well, else you will have other larger problems as well.

Originally Posted by Fungsten

I'll be waiting. Thanks because I love this MOD. I'll give you a few $$$ after it's updated!

It's comin soon! I just finished redoing the layout for campgaea.org which was the only priority higher then this one

[joyfulmiller]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

You should also ensure that you did the file edit as well, else you will have other larger problems as well.

I'll double check that I didn't miss anything, but I was really carefully to do everything exactly as described for the install. Everything seemed to go smoothly with no errors. I remember doing the template edit, but I guess I didn't do it right?

Can you be more specific about the "file edit"? I'm not sure if I know which "file edit" you're referring to.

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by joyfulmiller

I'll double check that I didn't miss anything, but I was really carefully to do everything exactly as described for the install. Everything seemed to go smoothly with no errors. I remember doing the template edit, but I guess I didn't do it right?

Can you be more specific about the "file edit"? I'm not sure if I know which "file edit" you're referring to.

Step 4 of the install.txt file states:

4. FILE EDIT
 In:
 /includes/class_mail.php
 **************
 FIND:
 **************
  $headers .= preg_replace("#(\r\n|\r|\n)#s", $delimiter, $uheaders);
  unset($uheaders);

 **************
 AND ADD ABOVE IT:
 **************
// ##### START MOD - Email Integration #####
  if (preg_match("/(.*)emailintegration(.*)/", $uheaders, $uheaderparts))
  {
    $eiheaders = $uheaders;
  }
// ##### END MOD - Email Integration #####

 **************
 SAVE AND UPLOAD!
 **************

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

I'd love to take a peek. I can manually add the fields in if needed. But I'd rather try to figure out why it's not installing right.

ok what is the nest step?

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by mykkal

ok what is the nest step?

Send me some login details via PM.

I emptied out my PM box so I can actually see what I'm getting again heh.