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

[brettb]

We have a fairly small forum implementation with less than 100 users. Our forums are all invite only and access is controlled individually through access masks. We've been using this mod since the start of the forum but have recently been experiencing a few problems.

1) Some users are creeping into the notification list who weren't specifically assigned to the forum. This problem is controllable by looking at the data and weeding them out, but it's still curious how that happens.

2) For the past few weeks we had a situation where people who were note in the notification list received forum emails. I've traced the code and manually run all the queries and I can't find any reason at all this would have been happening. Naturally it doesn't happen consistently, but it has happened more than once. Any theories on what's going on there?

[AyeCapn]

I suspect this has been brought up before, but couldn't find anything. When a thread is ut into moderation it still generates an email before the moderation is approved or denied. Can the email be delayed until moderation approval is given?

[riahiarshia]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Try using one of the connection options of with officially signed certificates or unofficial.

That should change the connection to the correct port.

No go!. I had to forward all of the emails to a Gmail account in order to get this to work.

Thanks Anyway !!

[Bluefin221]

Users on my site can't access the instant notification, admin can just drop the box down and choose to have instant e-mails, it works for them quite clearly as I have also been dropping in e-mails to the site, however users can't even change the settings???

[txspaderz]

Cyrix,

Long time! Question, I've been using this for quite a while now. I need the option to turn off the Invalid User Emali error. I have one forum set for unregistered users to post in, however the email -> user check you have setup is blocking this from happening...

Any chance of getting this to work?

[whardwick]

My IT administrator informs me that we only have SMTP authentication for sending and receiving. I tried all authentication methods provided with this mod and none of them seem to work.

Is there a work-around that I can use?

Thanks.

[rodneytamblyn]

Hi Cyricx,

I see in 2.6 there's a new feature to allow users to opt-out of being auto-subscribed. I have enabled this option in the admin CP, but I cannot for the life of me find where this option should appear in the User CP

Can you tell me where it should appear, and secondly, let me know if there is any other place in the admin system (other than Email Integration Settings) where I may have to enable this feature.

Thanks

~ Rodney

[toivo]

Hi,

If your user community prefers the old email layout but you do not like to see the complete thread in the email, this code limits the included messages to two.

The modification assumes that the following options have been selected:

AdminCP - vBulletin Options - Email Integration Settings:

• Use Single From Address
• Do you want to use the old layout for emails

You have to fill in these options:

• Single From Name
• Single From Address

How to modify:

Insert the modification after line 264 in includes/cron/emailintegration.php:

$mailmessage = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $mailmessage);

Modification:

// 20080916 toivo@totaldata.biz: remove all but last message, leave one delimiter
// ei options set: 'use old email layout',  'use single from: address', 'single from name', 'single from address'
$from_str = 'From: ' . $vbulletin->options['ei_single_from_name'] . ' ';
$from_str .= '[mailto:' .$vbulletin->options['ei_single_from_address'] .']';
// remove text inserted by Outlook, possibly other clients
$original_str = '-----Original Message-----';
$underscore_str = '________________________________';
$first_pos = strpos($mailmessage, $from_str);
if ($first_pos !== false) {
	$second_pos = strpos($mailmessage, $from_str, $first_pos + 1);
	if ($second_pos !== false) {
		$mailmessage = substr($mailmessage, 0, $second_pos);
		// remove  last '----- Original Message -----'
		$first_orig_pos = strpos($mailmessage, $original_str);
		if ($first_orig_pos !== false) {
			$last_orig_pos = strrpos($mailmessage, $original_str);
			if ($last_orig_pos !== false AND $last_orig_pos !== $first_orig_pos) {
				$mailmessage = substr_replace($mailmessage, '', $last_orig_pos, strlen($original_str));
			}
		 } else {
		        $first_us_pos = strpos($mailmessage, $underscore_str);
		        if ($first_us_pos !== false) {
			    $last_us_pos = strrpos($mailmessage, $underscore_str);
			    if ($last_us_pos !== false AND $last_us_pos !== $first_us_pos) {
				$mailmessage = substr_replace($mailmessage, '', $last_us_pos, strlen($underscore_str));
			    }
		    }
	      }
	}
}
// 20080916 end

Regards,
toivo

[TBrewerton]

Hi,

Is there an option for a daily digest of the messages rather than all messages, like on yahoo groups??

If not is there a mod for this??

Kindest Regards,

Tim

[rconn]

I had everything working for several months, then upgraded to vBulletin 3.7.3. Now the posts sent via email aren't appearing in the forum. (They are in the account inboxes, but they're apparently not being picked up.)

I doublechecked everything I could find but don't see any reason why the messages aren't being forwarded. Anybody have an idea what's going on?

Thanks.

Rex Conn