Reply by email v. 0.1

It works just like FireFly described it here

Note: Your PHP must be compiled with IMAP support (read inside in the install.txt file)

This hack should be working just fine on EVERY vBulletin version.

I hope you like it
Post all your comments,bugs, improvements you would like to see.

Its not perfect yes.. i know

[Last update: 19/04/02 version 0.3]

[Gimp]

orca this can only happen if u reply from email that doesnt exist in the users' database.. which cant happen.. very strange

[orca]

Well, I sent it not from my home-acount. May I didn't notice that the sender was changed...

Originally posted by Gimp
orca this can only happen if u reply from email that doesnt exist in the users' database.. which cant happen.. very strange

[hypedave]

anybody fund a solution for my problem yet ?

[James Cridland]

If someone posts a nasty message on your BB, this system means that, regardless of what you do, your have still 'published' this message to subscribed users.

This means, reluctantly, that we've had to switch out nice "message in the e-mail" reply off.

[James Cridland]

Er, no, don't do that.

If you have four replies in a thread, you'll get four e-mails...!!

[hypedave]

okay I get this error now

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\forums\mailreply.php on line 37

im on a MDaemon 5.0.5 email server now

[VirtueTech]

HypeDave: This worked for me:

Find this line:
$permissions=getpermissions($threadinfo[forumid]);

Replace it with:
$permissions=getpermissions();

I hope that helps.

[Sinclair]

Can anyone told to me how i can start the mailreply.php via crontab?

[hypedave]

Originally posted by Sinclair
Can anyone told to me how i can start the mailreply.php via crontab?

point your crontab to the following path

/home/account/public_html/forums/mailreply.php

[ChurchMedia]

I have it installed and working. I set up a cron job to run the mailreply.php evey 5 minutes. MUCH easier than the other "email posts" hack. Thanks for the great hack!

There are 3 things that would make it work better for me:

1. I can put the thread id in the subject, but unless it's at the beginning of the subject line, mailreply.php won't post it. Is there a way for it to ignore the RE:? Maybe add an * before the thread id and have it look for it as a marker?

2. When replying by email, the post doesn't go back out to subscribers of the thread, so no one knows they replied unless they go back to the site. Can anything be done about that?

3. This is related to the Points hack by Shinra and the "points for posting" hack by Iguacu. Points aren't added when replying by email. Not a big deal, but would be nice to know how to fix.

Thanks again!