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

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by Slave

Oh, one thing I've noticed is that it is dropping the closing quote tag when I reply via email.

Would that have anything to do with me not using html mail in outlook?

Forming the quote boxes around the previous message is very very unreliable. I'll actually be doing away with it in the next version for a few reasons.

1) It's just too unreliable and almost impossible to determine all the multitude of possible email message types out there.
2) some people respond via email by adding their comments in the middle of the previous poster's message (yes.. I hate it when people do that... but they do...), this makes it even harder to discern the previous post from the current when it's put in the quote box.

Summary - has to do with your email format, your using a format that I haven't seen yet so the code wasn't setup for that. Next version this will be fixed.

[Slave]

For the quote issue .. it might be worth taking a look at the NNTP Gateway hack ..

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=92588

They don't put a quote tag around previous messages, but they do seem to colourise them depending on how many >'s there are per line .. it might be something you could use.

As for the cron issue .. have a look at vBMS ..

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=125890

From what I remember filbert could never get vbcron to work with his hack so setup his own cron job .. not sure if that still relied on page refreshes or not but worth a look perhaps.

[Tralala]

For the cron issue, would this help in any way? vB AJAX cron

[lacalvin2000]

Greetings,

Great program but I cannot figure out why I continue to this error. I have read all 24 pages of this thread:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/socal/public_html/forum/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 111

I have tried all 6 options under mail connections. And receive this error no matter what type of connection I use.

I have manually connected via outlook and outlook express to pop3 and IMAP and can send and receive emails successfully.

When viewing the PHP Info under Maintenance>view PHP - I do show any imap install. But I am successful in send/receive via IMAP

In the FAQ & other posts it mentions line 70 - but mine is line 111.

Thanks for your help.

Christopher

[dot2slash]

Originally Posted by Slave

Wouldn't this mean no email is processed due to it using the vbcron? Is there a way of getting around this?

just add a cron (real cron) ... make a wget to index.php ;-)
and delete it as well ... thats it ..

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by lacalvin2000

Greetings,

Great program but I cannot figure out why I continue to this error. I have read all 24 pages of this thread:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/socal/public_html/forum/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 111

I have tried all 6 options under mail connections. And receive this error no matter what type of connection I use.

I have manually connected via outlook and outlook express to pop3 and IMAP and can send and receive emails successfully.

When viewing the PHP Info under Maintenance>view PHP - I do show any imap install. But I am successful in send/receive via IMAP

In the FAQ & other posts it mentions line 70 - but mine is line 111.

Thanks for your help.

Christopher

The lines of the code has changed alittle through the progression

it's the same error.

You will need to ask your host to ENABLE imap in php. You do NOT have to have IMAP installed, just enabled in the php.ini file

That will fix that error

[Cyricx]

Details on enabling imap functions can be found here -
http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php

[lacalvin2000]

Thanks - the host did not have this compiled on my server. POP3 works like a charm.

Awesome product. Perfect for transition from Yahoo Groups.

[AyeCapn]

one month in this is the single best hack I have installed. Hands down. Nothing has helped increase member participation like this before.

Thanks Chris!

[cgmckeever]

I have installed email integration with thread prefixes. I have set up both, but when a email response is sent, the title is not reflective of the prefix attached with that message.

is there something that I may have overlooked?