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:

[MThornback]

Originally Posted by 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

Hes said he had a problem with the way he was doing the server handshake for sending mail...watch this space, hes said hes found something to help him with the issue...

Sorry for the doublepost folks

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by jugo

You are truly a gentleman. I started growing more gray hair, waiting for filburt1 to update his Modification which may I add was a paid product.

Thanks a ton bro.

2.5.1p has been available for quite some time now.

[rmxs]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

What exactely did you specify as sender e-mail address in your settings?

my mail...Byt Ok i fix it..

I unistall the OLD one and i install the product hc vbwebmail092pl2.xml


and now it WORKS...

Sent and reply normaly

[TTG]

I un-installed the OLD one and i installed the latest hc vbwebmail092pl2.xml ..

I can now receive but not send ..

Getting there

[MThornback]

Hellcat, is there a reason you can think of that the links you have setup wouldn't work? I checked the str replace...and they don't look like they interfere with any of the other hacks I have installed....except the FAQ one....but I turned that off....

[MissKalunji]

im having the same problem

Connection to mail.dancehallareaz.com:25....
Sent: helo localhost
Rcvd: 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail.
Sent: MAIL FROM:jamaican_dymes69@hotmail.com
Rcvd: 250 server.dancehallareaz.com Hello localhost [72.29.92.219]
Sent: RCPT TO:jamaican_dymes69@hotmail.com
Rcvd: 250 OK
Sent: DATA
Rcvd: 550-server.dancehallareaz.com (localhost) [72.29.92.219] is currently not
Sent: QUIT
Rcvd: 550-permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into

[maranello]

I uploaded the new php files, vwmail.php and inc_stmp.php, no change here. Its not the same error message, but its still not working.

[Hellcat]

With the VERY helpfull support of dreck I seem to have managed to get it going

I tried the current update (0.93) on the SMTP account dreck supplied me with and I finally could send mail without getting errors

Everyone who has the SMTP issue, upload the new files (if you already running 0.92 (RC2) there is no need to re-import the product .XML!) and try again using "LOGIN" authentication type.

Waiting for feedback now

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by MThornback

Hellcat, is there a reason you can think of that the links you have setup wouldn't work? I checked the str replace...and they don't look like they interfere with any of the other hacks I have installed....except the FAQ one....but I turned that off....

Is none of them showing up?
Try going to the admin options where you can set what link should be added and re-save the options - even when using the defaults, hit SAVE....

[MissKalunji]

im still getting the same error