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

[AyeCapn]

Originally Posted by dot2slash

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

I got this as well..

seems to be working though

[Cyricx]

Ah crap! The phrases didn't carry over

I'll update this first thing when I get home tonight

I added a buncha new phrases for that script to help people figure out their settings.

[tekguru]

So we need to wait for the phrases to be fixed before downloading then really?

[Cyricx]

Yeah

I'm at work now.. so gotta wait til I can get home to get it all fixed up.

I'll get home about 6pm central Won't take me long at all to get it up

[Tralala]

Go Cyricx go! Thanks again, man, for the updates and great support!

As I mentioned earlier, I'm moving my server this weekend to accommodate this mod. I'd like to also reiterate the request for cooperation with vBulletin's thread moderation system. (I'd like for moderators to have to approve a thread before it goes out to my entire usergroup via email if possible.)

Lastly, expect a PayPal donation from me soon... I'm very appreciative of your work and you deserve the kudos!

[justchecking]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

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

Hey Chris,

I sent you a PM regarding how to check my server's environment.

thanks.
jc

[Cheertobi]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

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?

I sure can. I am on tuesday back to the office and will then forward the mail to you.

It is an HTML Mail send from the forum to my mailbox.

Regards,

Tobi

[Cyricx]

Damn export didn't pull the phrases...

If you've already installed 2.3 all you need to do is reimport the xml file and select overwrite



Tralala - Thanks!! I'll get this mod to superb greatness if it kills me!!

JC - I'll check it out!

Tobi - Thanks!!

[dot2slash]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

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

yes i did ...
1 try update (with overwrite)
2. uninstall and install new

no problem or error while doing this ...
same effect

all the rest is working great .. (very good piece of work)

[Cyricx]

Dot2slash -
Try using the new 2.3.1 xml

While I was working on the large number of changes from 2.2 to 2.3 I was using letters in the versions. It seems that it is not supported in vbulletin. 2.2c is what was in the old xml to do the ei_folder changes to the database. Everyone who went from 2.2 to 2.3, vbulletin ignored that code. Note to programers.. only use .'s and numerics in your versions Something I didn't know about




FYI to all - Justchecking's main problems seem to have revolved around bugs in eaccelerators 0.9.5.1 version. After upgradin to 0.9.5.2 there was no longer a conflict error. It seems that other programs like drupal were also affected by that bad version of eaccelerator.