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]

I've got 2.3 wrapped up. I'm workin up a quick script to try to help people determine their connection settings they should use. Hopefully this version will smash a few more lingering bugs while adding some things like a forum subscription manager and such.

Anyway, I'll release it tomorrow evening, with or without the connection assistance thinga magig

[Cyricx]

Well... here's to hoping 2.3 goes off well!

New version is up...

[high]* Cyricx braces for impact![/high]

[dot2slash]

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 'ei_folder' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date         : Thursday, November 29th 2007 @ 10:11:31 AM
Script       : /vb/admincp/forum.php?do=update

[dot2slash]

everything Perfect ..
also Gmail and google apps working very very well ...

just the issue that i canot update boards anymore .... after hit update in any forum i get a sql error page and a admin email about the error above ...

in admincp .. the menu shows a new entry (atttachment)
*[emailint]*
links going to admincp/admin_ei_search_settings.php
where the output is quite strange .. see attachment 2

[justchecking]

besides the problem mentioned by dot2slash -

I am still getting

[1677] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdir/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83
[25625] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdi/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83
[958] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdir/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83

[dot2slash]

Originally Posted by justchecking

imap_open()

you have php running with --with-imap ?

[Cheertobi]

Hi,

cool, works great!

Smilies seems to be a problem in mails, I have got just a link to the smilie!

Regards,

Tobi

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by dot2slash

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 'ei_folder' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date         : Thursday, November 29th 2007 @ 10:11:31 AM
Script       : /vb/admincp/forum.php?do=update

Did you reupload the xml file via the admincp and select overwrite?

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by justchecking

besides the problem mentioned by dot2slash -

I am still getting

[1677] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdir/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83
[25625] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdi/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83
[958] EACCELERATOR: PHP crashed on opline 174 of imap_open() at /home/userdir/public_html/includes/cron/emailintegration.php:83

I'm starting to think you need to verify the version of eaccelerator. The issue your experiencing is not unique to the modification I wrote.

http://eaccelerator.net/ticket/155

I did a google search for eaccelerator: php crashed and got a buncha hits. Most of the resolutions involved upgrading the eaccelerator.

The true test would be to see if the script runs without eaccelerator.

I'll try to do some comparisons on our two sites to determine what differences you may have

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by Cheertobi

Hi,

cool, works great!

Smilies seems to be a problem in mails, I have got just a link to the smilie!

Regards,

Tobi

Can you forward me the email? to testforums(at)campgaea(dot)org?

I would like to see the header info on the email to try to determine what may have happened

Also, was the email from a post that was made from the forums or from email?

Thanks!