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:

[MissKalunji]

it worked

when it says username it should be : username@yourdomain.com

now lets see if i received it!

[MissKalunji]

yayeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee received and sent good job hellcat!

[MThornback]

All fixed on my end SMTP wise! Great fix!

As to text replacement....still not working....no big deal i'll edit the template the hack is worth it!


Edit...another suggestion....if you have a new e-mail it flashes like it can for a new PM thats icing on the cake for the full release maybe? just a thought

[dreck]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

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

Works like a charm! :banana:


Thanks, dreck

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by dreck

I tried it real quick & no go.
I need to get some sleep, I will look my settings over better tomar.

Thanks, dreck

In settings (in vmail.php)

for username instead of using myname use myname@yourdomain.com

see if that worked

[dreck]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

In settings (in vmail.php)

for username instead of using myname use myname@yourdomain.com

see if that worked

I edit my post, after posting I retype my password & saved & it worked. Go figure! hehe

[MissKalunji]

Good!!!!!

[dreck]

I did notice a error message you may want to look at fixing. When you delete you get the "Your inbox is empty" message, but above is "Error". Attached is a picture.

Also a request: Be nice if you could have more than one account. I have 4 emails i use daily. Just an idea!

Thanks Hellcat, You ROCK!

dreck

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by dreck

Works like a charm! :banana:

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
[high]* Hellcat bounces :banana:
[/high]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

Good!!!!!

Does that mean it's now working for you?
[edit]
just read your above posts
cool
Glad it seems working now for everyone.

Originally Posted by dreck

I did notice a error message you may want to look at fixing. When you delete you get the "Your inbox is empty" message, but above is "Error".

I was tempted to put a "Does noone like you?" in there
Well, I can change that to.... "Notice" maybe

Originally Posted by dreck

Also a request: Be nice if you could have more than one account. I have 4 emails i use daily. Just an idea!

Yep, a feature to support multiple config sets is already on my ToDo




Soooo....
I think now it's time for some final tweaking and tuning and we schould very soon have a 1.00 final yay!

And then we can move forward to new features!

[MissKalunji]

One more thing!

its messing up my style when i send an e-mail

check attachement