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

[RWerksman]

Despite having installed quite a few mods to my forum, I seem to be running into a bit of an issue wit this.

I can post via email to my forum quite well, and I can subscribe to regular threads fine, but when I subscribe to the entire forum, I never get any emails. I have:

- Enabled the prodcut via vBulletin Options
- Setup the email accounts
- Plopped my forumids in the "If joining this usergroup opens access to any Email Integrated Forums, please enter the forumids here separated by a comma." box in my usergroup.
- Entered the settings in my "Email Reply Integration Settings" section of the forum
- Subscribed to the forum via instant notifications

What am I missing here? Why isn't this working correctly for me?

[RWerksman]

Originally Posted by RWerksman

Despite having installed quite a few mods to my forum, I seem to be running into a bit of an issue with this.

Ok - I'm absolutely at my wits end with this -- it just wont generate subscription emails!! I've tried damn near everything to get this to roll, but it appears as not be triggering the plugin to send out the email.

Someone help!


(and Merry Christmas!)

[Cyricx]

I'll be catching up on this, this week and I have a few ideas on how to redo the format of the emails to clean things up a bit.

*glancing at some of the above posts*

RWerksman, if you would like to PM me a temporary admin login with access to the forum manager, plugin manager and scheduled tasks and let me know which forums you have enabled I'll jump in and see if I can figure out what may be going on.

[RWerksman]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

RWerksman, if you would like to PM me a temporary admin login with access to the forum manager, plugin manager and scheduled tasks and let me know which forums you have enabled I'll jump in and see if I can figure out what may be going on.

Done! Thank you sir!

[amphicar770]

Thanks Cyricx,

This is the one mod that many vb sites have been dying for. Like many others, I can now get my group off of Yahoo.

Just sent a contribution your way. Hope everyone else does the same and that it encourages you to continue updating and supporting this killer mod!!!

Mike I.

[amphicar770]

How do I update existing users, as opposed to new users, to be subscribed to a specific forum.

[popmyzit]

Hey guys,
everything works except... I don't get emails sent out for replies to the original thread...

[amphicar770]

Originally Posted by justchecking

.. I get an error
- unable to open the stream. So basically cron script has trouble logging into the mail system and downloading the emails. I tried all 6 settings but no luck.

-Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {mail.mysite.com:993/pop3/ssl}INBOX in /includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 111

I ran into same issue. Here is what I found that might help others out.

For username login I entered the username of the email account I created, which is:
amphicarlovers
Nothing was working until I went to my sites admincp for email where it told me the sytem userid is:
amphicarlovers+amphicar770.com
(yes, literally with the plus sign).
Once I changed that I had working IMAP, Pop, etc.

I also have to give a plug to my host asmallorange. IMAP was not installed on PHP. I submitted a support ticket and in 5 minutes had a reply to give them 15 minutes and they would recompile php with this setting enabled. Like evry other thing I have ever asked them, boom it is done!

Love this mod. Just need to know how, as admin, I can subscribe existing users.

[RWerksman]

Originally Posted by popmyzit

Hey guys,
everything works except... I don't get emails sent out for replies to the original thread...

Same deal with me

[popmyzit]

Ok, it sends emails only if they subscribe in usercp...cant automatically add users.

Also works on 3.7 except get errors on registration:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in /forum/includes/class_dm_user.php(2652) : eval()'d code on line 30