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

[Dontom]

Hi,
I switched to 2.6 recently. If the mailbox contains more than one email the messages get posted but not deleted from the mailbox (pop or imap doesn't matter), which results in multiple postings, until I log in and delete that emails...

Any advice?

Cyricx, are you still here?

Thanks
Tom

[snoopy5]

Hi

two questions:

1. is it possible to use this mod for sending the postings only one-way?

So that users only get the e-mail notification, but can not reply by e-mail?

2. Can I enable in the ACP this Mod for specific usergroups only, i.e. only for premium members?

Thanks in advance

[Dontom]

Originally Posted by snoopy5

2. Can I enable in the ACP this Mod for specific usergroups only, i.e. only for premium members?

Yes, after installing the hack you will have additional settings in your forum manager (on a per forum base) - there you can specify which usergroup may use the email functionality...
Tom

[Dontom]

toivo,
in which line did you add the

PHP Code:

imap_delete($mailbox, $msg_no); 


?
thanks
tom

[toivo]

Hi tom,

That was just a couple of command line scripts I wrote for testing, not the ei mod. One displays what is in the mailbox and the other deletes the messages. The zip file with readme.txt is attached.

Regards,
toivo

[Dontom]

oh, I just added the account to mail mail-app, so I can just look into the account and view / delete messages. I thought you added a couple of ines to the EI -mod in order to prevent multiple postings...

[Dontom]

I also installed the 2.6.1 but still have the problem of messages being posted n times, because they are not deleted on the mail-server after being posted to the forums....

Any way to fix this?!

[Alfa1]

I am running vb 3.7 RC3 and EI 2.6.1.

I have the following problems and would really enjoy some pointers:

• -Running the cron gives me this error:
  PHP Code:

  Email Integration
[*]Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_threadprefix.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 41

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/mydomain/forum/includes/functions_threadprefix.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /mydomain/forum/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 41 

• In your installation file you write:

  If you have problems getting emails to appear in the forum, you can use a help script I have written which tests many different configurations to determine the proper entries for your forum. To use this script, go to AdminCP -> Email Integration -> Forum Setings Help.

  I do not find AdminCP -> Email Integration -> Forum Setings Help.
• - And last but not least, my phpinfo notes this about my IMAP settings:
  

  IMAP c-Client Version 	2001
  SSL Support 	enabled
  Kerberos Support 	enabled

  Does that give any clue to the correct settings in the forum manager? (pop3 with or without SSL, IMAP with or without SSL)

[toivo]

Hi,

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

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function set_parsing_language() on a non-object in {...test forum folder...} \includes\cron\emailintegration.php on line 1615

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

[Alfa1]

Posts are being sent to the email addresses of the members who subscribed, so that is good.

But it seems as the script is not accessing the gmail inbox as no emails are getting posted. I am still getting the error below:

PHP Code:

Email Integration
[*]Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_threadprefix.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 41

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/mydomain/forum/includes/functions_threadprefix.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /mydomain/forum/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 41 


I am using normal IMAP.

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I am running vb 3.7 RC3 and EI 2.6.1.

I have the following problems and would really enjoy some pointers:

• -Running the cron gives me this error:
  PHP Code:

  Email Integration
[*]Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_threadprefix.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 41

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/mydomain/forum/includes/functions_threadprefix.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /mydomain/forum/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 41 

• In your installation file you write: I do not find AdminCP -> Email Integration -> Forum Setings Help.