Board Optimization - vMail Converter - Send out your emails in different encoding

By Syrian Medical Society & Milad

Introduction:
In order to solve the problem with unicode (UTF-8) in some Email Service Providers (such as Hotmail, Yahoo and many others), I created this product.
It converts the sent out messages only, from your real encoding into an encoding of choice, both encodings, the source & destination must be supported by iconv.
You may know, I had converted to UTF-8 and faced this problem, now it's solved.

Caution:
This product is provided As Is without warranties.

Requirements:

• vBulletin 3.7.1+
• iconv PHP extension is installed on your system, or your PHP version is 5 and above.

Supported Encodings:
See http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#introduction

Installation or Upgrading:

1. Import the product file product-vmail_converter.xml (Choose Yes when Upgrade).
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> Email Options -> vMail Converter - Destination Encoding.
3. Set your Destination Encoding and save (For me, It's windows-1256).
4. In /includes/class_mail.php Replace every
   
   PHP Code:

   $stylevar['charset'] 

   WITH
   
   PHP Code:

   $this->get_charset() 

5. In /includes/class_mail.php Replace every
   
   PHP Code:

   $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] 

   WITH
   
   PHP Code:

   $this->converted_bbtitle() 

6. In /includes/class_mail.php Find
   
   PHP Code:

   $toemail = $this->fetch_first_line($toemail); 

   Add after:
   
   
   PHP Code:

           // vMail Converter START
        $subject = $this->vmail_convert($subject);
        $message = $this->vmail_convert($message);
        if ($from != '')
        {
            $from = $this->vmail_convert($from);
        }
        if ($uheaders != '')
        {
            $uheaders = $this->vmail_convert($uheaders);
        }
        if ($username != '')
        {
            $username = $this->vmail_convert($username);
        }
        // vMail Converter END 

7. In /includes/class_mail.php Find again
   
   PHP Code:

       function start($toemail, $subject, $message, $from = '', $uheaders = '', $username = '')
    { 

   Add before:
   
   PHP Code:

       // vMail Converter START
    function vmail_convert($item)
    {
    global $stylevar;
    
        if (function_exists('iconv') AND $item != '')
        {
            return @iconv($stylevar['charset'], $this->registry->options['vmail_converter_destination'], $item);
        }
        else
        {
            return $item;
        }
    }
    
    function get_charset()
    {
        global $stylevar;
        
        if (function_exists('iconv'))
        {
            return $this->registry->options['vmail_converter_destination'];
        }
        else
        {
            return $stylevar['charset'];
        }
    }
    
    function converted_bbtitle()
    {
        global $vbulletin;
        return $this->vmail_convert($vbulletin->options['bbtitle']);
    }
    // vMail Converter END 

8. Find:
   
   PHP Code:

               if (isset($vbphrase['x_mailer']))
            { 

   Add After:
   
   PHP Code:

   $vbphrase['x_mailer'] = $this->vmail_convert($vbphrase['x_mailer']); 

   Save and upload the file again.
9. You're done.

Known issues:

• none.

Versions:

• 1.0.0 (initial release). (5. April 2007)
• 1.1.0 (10. April 2007)
• 1.1.1 (11. April 2007) fix a bug
• 1.2.0 (17. May 2007) Very good version, every bug fixed.
• 1.3.0 (16 June 2008) Version for 3.7.1

Support is given for who clicks "install" only.
Mark it as "Installed" to receive updates and support.

[kapii]

It doesn't show up in the vBoption panel in 3.8.2, so you can't set it, and my guess is it's going to take some coding to make it work. It does show up in the product list though.

Hopefully we will be able to use it soon. Thanks for the efforts you have made so far, though!

[AliMadkour]

thanks ,
installed and work fine ,

[cgway.net]

Works with 3.8 >?????

[matrex722]

i realy want this mod for 3.85

please do somthing

اهلا ميلاد

انا عدلت اللي فوق لكن اللي اتصلح العنوان للرسالة

بعد ما كان رموز اصبح يظهر بشكل طبيعي

لكن محتوي الرسالة بيكون فارغ

[matrex722]

ارجوك الحل للنسخ 3.8