WMail - a POP3/SMTP Webmailer for vBulletin

What is this?
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WMail is a "webmail client" - a front end, like a mail tool installed locally on your PC, for using POP3/SMTP mailboxes.

In short:
WMail adds POP3/SMTP access to vBulletin.

A live demo can currentliy be found on my testing board here:
http://vbdev.area-42.net/wmail.php


Key features:

• The obvious: Getting mailbox content, reading mails from every POP3 mailbox and sending mails through any SMTP server (configurable in the user options)
• written from scratch, spezificially to be used with vBulletin 3.5.x - not a port of something
• fully phrased and templated down to the last bit
• Full multipart support for downloading (and sending) attachments
• When reading mail the mail text is parsed for BB-Codes, so you get the graphical smillies from the forum, text formatting and URLs automatically become clickable links
• When replying to, or forwarding, mail the text of the original mail is quoted, propper quotemarks are added and a quote-header is added (customizable via template)
• various options for admin and users to customize the webmail client
• Does NOT require any special modules to be compiled into your PHP installation (like the IMAP libraries)
  (for techies: this uses basic socket connections instead of special PHP function calls)
• Admin can override certain aspects of the user config (forcing to use a given mailserver, force using forum email address and such)
• Write your mails using vB's WYSIWYG editor
• buildin (yet simple) addressbook for your E-Mail contacts
• Read/Unread markings - unread mails are highlighted, options for "mark selected read", "mark all read" and "mark selected unread"
• custom hooks to make it easy to develop addons for it
• automatically adds links to the webmailer in "Quick Links" menu, navbar and UserCP. Usualy no template edits needed when using default ones (can be disabled for each link in admin options)

Planned features:

• Support for multiple config sets per user
  (and so multiple mailbox accounts that can be querried)
• Sort mails into folders
• User configurable filters (for automatically sorting mails into folders)
• Preview of mailtext in inbox view (bellow subject)
• Forward mails as PM / Forward PMs as mail
• Reply to threads and PMs by mail
• Give/Provide your members an own eMail adress and inbox on your forums!
  • Members can recieve and send mails as "username@forumdomain.tld" without the need for an own POP3 account anywhere
  • Admin only needs ONE "real" POP3 box as "catch all".

Installation
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Level : EASY
Duration : a minute or so
Files to upload : yes (11)
Products to import : yes (1)
Templates to edit : usually none


ChangeLog
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1.00 - first final release

• Fixed some minor bugs
• Login details are no longer stored as plain text in the database (*see note bellow!)
• Added option to save login details in a cookie on the users local computer instead of storing them in the forum's database

* Note on storing the login details in the database:
The login details are only base64 encoded when stored in the database.
A more secure encryption would make no sense anyway, the login details must be decrypted to be passed to the POP3/SMTP server - one well placed line of additional code in the POP3 or SMTP class could save the decrypted info anywhere the admin likes.
This "encoding" is only meant to prevent login details to be read (in plaintext) when doing maintanance to the database and stepping over it.
For fully securing the login details the "Save in cookie" option has been added.

Known Issues:

• On some installations mass deletion of mails (via "Delete Selected" from the inbox view) does not delete all mails
• Sometimes you get "-4 mails in inbox" - reloading the page then shows the correct inbox again

Besides of those two issues, that do not really break the function of the webmailer, it seemed to run pretty stable so far - that's why I decided to release 1.00 without having them resolved.


(more changelog entries in the readme)

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This vBulletin extension is FREE! Be welcome to download and use it.
However, if you feel like supporting further development any donation is appreciated :bunny:

[Cybertims]

I just fully uninstalled and re-installed....but to no avail. I still get the exact same error.

Ah wel...good try.

[Hellcat]

Used the *pl2 version?
Did you get an error during uninstall?
Install with "Allow Override = NO"

[PtP]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

- Go to the product manager and choose "edit" for WMail.
- Delete out everything in the "Uninstall code".
- Uninstall the product (should go without errors after the delete)
- Re-Import the product .XML - now all tables should be created as required.

I am about to upload another update, where the install/uninstall code is patched again, so the uninstall doesn't give any errors anymore.
So a simple uninstall/reinstall now does the trick with rc2pl2.... hopefully....

[edit]
can some1 with the SMTP issue try out the attached wmail.php and see if there's anything different now....

Definatly some change but no result yet sorry

There has been an error while talking to your SMTP server!
Sessionlog follows:
 
Connection to mail.mydomain.com:25....
Sent: ehlo localhost
Rcvd: 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 
Sent: auth login
Rcvd: 220 and/or bulk e-mail. 
Sent: MAIL FROM:ptp@mydomain.com
Rcvd: 250-server.myhost.com Hello localhost [xxx.xxx.xx.xx] 
Sent: RCPT TO:ptp@myotheremail.net.au
Rcvd: 250-SIZE 52428800 
Sent: DATA
Rcvd: 250-PIPELINING 
Sent: QUIT
Rcvd: 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by PtP

Definatly some change but no result yet sorry

OK, then a new inc_smtp.php as well....

[Snake]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

Hehee, yeah
I hope to get it working this week.... a 1.0 final by the weekend would be nice....

Sweeet! Man once Final is out, I'll be happy to make a few donation to ya.

[Cybertims]

Same error for me after the upgrade...and the additional changes you mention...

Just an observation....

It is trying to connect to my smtp server smtp.bulldogdsl.com:25 but the smtp server address I have and works in Outlook is simply...smtp.bulldogdsl.com without the :25

would it matter that this is in there in your script??

Here's the error I get

Connection to mail.bulldogdsl.com:25....failed: Connection refused

also top of the screen I get this.....

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to mail.bulldogdsl.com:25 in /wmail/inc_smtp.php on line 49

There is no authentication needed on this server the ISP tell me.

Cheers.

[dreck]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

One request:
Could someone with a SMTP server that WMail is not (yet) compatible with supply me with a (temporary) account on that SMTP server, so I can try things "on the fly" myself?
That would speed up the process since I wouldn't need to ask someone else to try every single change I made

PM sent

[dreck]

Was their to be a new auth type? I still only see three.
Login
plain
none

I used both new files & reimported the new xml

I still get what looks like same error:

 
There has been an error while talking to your SMTP server!
Sessionlog follows:

Connection to mail.thisdarncar.com:25....
Sent: ehlo localhost
Rcvd: 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail. 
Sent: auth login
Rcvd: 250-box115.bluehost.com Hello box115.bluehost.com [70.103.140.115] 
Sent: MAIL FROM:dreck@thisdarncar.com
Rcvd: 250-SIZE 52428800 
Sent: RCPT TO:stu@thisdarncar.com
Rcvd: 250-PIPELINING 
Sent: DATA
Rcvd: 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 
Sent: QUIT
Rcvd: 250-STARTTLS

[SweetHome]

woow good!

[MThornback]

Originally Posted by lowandloudinc

im having the same errors as you can you tell me what you did to fix this?

Go into the product (if hellcat's fix isn't working for you) and take the CREATE TABLE SQL queries at the beginning and take out the VB code that surrounds it and run it in your phpmyadmin, 3 tables didn't load when I installed, so I did them manually....if you need help cleaning out the queries PM me and i'll be happy to help. I don't want to monopolize the thread