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

[rcwild]

I'm having a problem similar to a previous poster. Scheduled Task Manager error message reads:

Email Integration

Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {localhost:110/pop3/notls}INBOX in [path]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 98

Failed to connect to the mailbox for forum - News, Videos, Free for All

Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {localhost:110/pop3/notls}INBOX in [path]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 98

Failed to connect to the mailbox for forum - Technical Canyoneering

Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {localhost:110/pop3/notls}INBOX in [path]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 98

Failed to connect to the mailbox for forum - Canyon Beta & Partners
Done

It seems to suggest that there is a discrepancy with usernames and/or passwords, but I've checked, double-checked and triple-checked to make sure they match.

I'm stumped.

[goldendox]

Thanks. Sorry to hear about your wife losing her job. Hang in there. I've disabled this beta till able to get support regarding why it's not working. Thanks.

{QUOTE=Cyricx;1538174]I'm still bouncing around, but have zero time to look into all the posts yet..

Wife lost her job, so having to take on alot of extra freelance work to keep the bills paid.

No eta on when I'll be able to bust some more arse on this. There are a few new email parsers out I want to try.

Just wanted to give ya all a headsup so you didn't think I was dead LOL.

Just paying bills [/QUOTE]

[rcwild]

With some help from my host, I moved beyond the mail connection problem above and onto a new problem.

Email Integration

Fatal error:
This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between posts. Please try again in 30 seconds.
Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_post in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 810

[toivo]

Originally Posted by goldendox

I have the beta installed. Did a test by running it in task manager. Seems okay, yet nobody is getting emails (that I know of).

in hostname, is localhost ok, or should it be 'localhost'
it seems that all users are set by default to receive emails from all forums. I have a junior member acct (who i have as an allowed usergroup), and am not receiving any emails other than the admin ones. i set each forum up with different addresses. still have the admin one. that is the one i'm still getting standard email notifications of.

also, how or where can i check to see if those emails are going through?

thanks.

If the email messages you send to the mailbox are read all right by EI mod, then obviously the hostname of your SMTP server is correct. If the mailbox is on a mail server running in the same box as your vBulletin, the hostname should be just localhost, without quotes.

[toivo]

Originally Posted by rcwild

With some help from my host, I moved beyond the mail connection problem above and onto a new problem.

The script /includes/class_dm.php is not part of the EI mod but obviously its methods are being used when posting the email messages.

The 30 second restriction comes from the flood check setting in AdminCP - vBulletin Options - Email Options: "This is the number of seconds that must elapse between emails that a user can send to other members. This is primarily to prevent a user from easily spamming members. Set it to 0 to disable this option."

It would be useful to see what actual error causes the $errors array to have a message. Have you tried to change the 30 second limit to 0?

[rcwild]

I tried your suggestion. One problem solved and another pops up.

Decided to give up and started to uninstall the mod. Decision on hold for right now. What I like most about this mod is actually the Edit Forum Subscriptions feature in the User CP. Users have always had the ability to subscribe to forums and threads, but few did so because the process was a bit cumbersome. I like the idea of having one page -- /forums/subscribeforums.php -- that I can link to for forum subscriptions.

I also like the Auto Subscriptions feature. Would be nice to change all of our users over to "daily updates by email" on our most popular forums. Giving users the ability to post to threads by replying to an email is not an important feature. In fact, I would rather bring our users over to the site.

So I'm wondering if it's possible to use only these select features with this mod.

1. A simple Edit Forum Subscriptions page.
2. Auto Subscriptions.

Or is there someone out there that could come up with something ??

[Lori]

I love this hack - but since my board is private the reply email won't work.

so, I'm wondering two things:

1. Is there a way to modify the email to NOT include the option for reply?
and
2.. can it be sent as a daily digest instead of in response to each individual thread/reply?

Thanks!!!
Lori

[toivo]

Originally Posted by Lori

I love this hack - but since my board is private the reply email won't work.

so, I'm wondering two things:

1. Is there a way to modify the email to NOT include the option for reply?
and
2.. can it be sent as a daily digest instead of in response to each individual thread/reply?

Thanks!!!
Lori

You should perhaps look at the Instand New Thread Notification mod instead: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=141280

We now have the following options available under UserCP - Edit Options - Messaging & Notifications - Default Thread Subscription Mode:
- Do not subscribe
- No email notification
- Instant email notification
- Daily email notification
- Weekly email notification

Regards,
toivo

[Lori]

Toivo-
Thanks - I did check into that, but I really need to be able to "auto subscribe" members and not rely on them to subscribe themselves or to post before being subscribed.

If I'm missing something in the one you recommended please let me know.

What it is I'm looking for is a daily digest (or even per post) where people are automatically subscribed and emailed.

Many on my board lurk but don't post, therefore need the digests...

Thanks again for the suggestion

Lori

[briang123]

IM having an issue where a particular form keeps emailing itself the same 4 messages... Ill clear out the POP3 account, and they reappear. Ive since disabled ei on the forum, but when I do run the job I get the following error. Any ideas?

Fatal error: Call to a member function do_parse() on a non-object in \includes\cron\emailintegration.php on line 1079
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function do_parse() on a non-object in \includes\cron\emailintegration.php on line 1079

I have several other forums set up and they are all fine.

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