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

[riahiarshia]

It seems to work just fine using a gmail account.

[kevinh]

Alex, my experience with this is that it happened with the same user (who had previously posted by email without the repeat posts occuring). Ironically he was one of the few people who helped us test EI, but the problem only occurred after we went live, although fortunately we're still beta testing with 12 users.

So I [S]don't[/S] do think it is random. It's a pretty big problem for me, because I'm in Australia but many of my users will be in the UK, so if the problem occurs it's likely to happen when I'm asleep, and by the time I know about it I will have a lot of unhappy users!

Incidentally I already had 'Strict Email Checking' to set to 'NO'.

[kevinh]

In the mean time I am trying to disable posts by email while retaining the notifications.

I have modified the phrases for the new thread and new post emails so that they no longer contain the 'reply between the lines section' and make no reference to replying or starting threads by email. It's a bit of a bodge but it will work. However, in the notification emails I am getting far too much space above and below the previous message section.

I'm assuming this must be down to a php file - can someone please tell me which file it is that creates these email message?

[toivo]

Hi Kevin.

Have you tried the fixes listed in reply #843? I had a similar problem with messages not getting deleted and a small change fixed that.

If the message has no attachments, the variable $attachmentinfo in the phrase ei_post_notify_html for emailbody is blank and there will be three lines above the previous message section. The processing is done around lines 726-822 in emailintegration.php, and $parentpost is done after that.

Regards,
toivo

[kevinh]

Originally Posted by toivo

Hi Kevin.

Have you tried the fixes listed in reply #843? I had a similar problem with messages not getting deleted and a small change fixed that.

I hadn't, no. Because people were still talking about the problem in very recent posts I figured there wasn't a fix so didn't bother to go back through the 50 of pages of posts

Many thanks for drawing this to my attention. I will make the relevant changes and report back!

kevin

[kevinh]

Hi toivo,

[S]I have a problem with your fix below - my line 1615 says;

if (empty($evalemailplain))

however I have this on line 1814;

$plaintext_parser->set_parsing_language($touser['languageid']);

I'm not a coder so I need to very precise instructions [/S]

In your post below I assume the code you have after "Line 1615" is the new code?

[S]But what do I replace with it ? (obviously not line 1615 in my emailintegration.php file)[/S]

Regards,
Kevin

PS. I am running EI 2.6.1 Beta

Originally Posted by toivo

Hi,

Here is a workaround to the problem which stops messages from being deleted:

Force the language code, rather than retrieve it from $touser['languageid']:

Line 1615:

$plaintext_parser->set_parsing_language( 1 );

I sent three messages to the mailbox, hit the forum a few times and received all three messages. And they had been deleted from the mailbox, too.

Regards,
toivo

[toivo]

Hi Kevin,

Quite right, that is the new code.

Odd, the original version of emailintegration was under 1700 lines.

Regards,
Toivo

[kevinh]

Ho Toivo,

My emailintegration is 1884 line. Maybe it's something to do with my editor (EditPad).

I'l check it in another editor and see if it effect the line numbers .....

Can you please confirm what the code is that I have to replace - is it;

$plaintext_parser->set_parsing_language($touser['languageid']);

Thanks,
Kevin

[kevinh]

Hi Toivo,

I just checked it in Dreamweaver and the line nos are now correct!

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Kevin

[toivo]

Hi Kevin,

That is the line.

Cheers,
Toivo