Miscellaneous Hacks - Send Message Auto Reply

When a user sends you a message using sendmessage.php this mod will send the user an auto reply message.

You can edit the subject and the message body in the options

How To Include HTML In The Email
By default vBulletin doesn't allow you to send HTML in an email. It can also not be changed with a plugin so you have to do some manual file edits. So...

Open "includes/class_mail.php"
Find:

PHP Code:

$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/plain' . iif($encoding, "; charset=\"$encoding\"") . $delimiter; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/html' . iif($encoding, "; charset=\"$encoding\"") . $delimiter; 


You can now send HTML with emails. This includes all other emails sent from vB.
Please click install

[htscpl]

Nice, good idea.. now if we could just add some links that would be great!

Thanks for the mod!

** installs **

[1Unreal]

Found out how to include HTML in the email. Look at the first post for a tutorial.

[phonexpo]

Originally Posted by 1Unreal

Found out how to include HTML in the email. Look at the first post for a tutorial.

Hi Ben,

Thanks again, the response message works perfectly with the code edit

Just one little problem, the email received from the sender using the sendmessage.php is different from the original, I'm sure it's because it's not coded in .php anymore, but was wondering is there a way around this?

See - http://i27.tinypic.com/5ybx1s.jpg

Thanks again for this,

Patrick

[1Unreal]

Originally Posted by phonexpo

Hi Ben,

Thanks again, the response message works perfectly with the code edit

Just one little problem, the email received from the sender using the sendmessage.php is different from the original, I'm sure it's because it's not coded in .php anymore, but was wondering is there a way around this?

See - http://i27.tinypic.com/5ybx1s.jpg

Thanks again for this,

Patrick

To be honest no. The best way to fix that would be to edit the phrases of the emails being sent and replace the new lines with <br />'s.

Its because vB isn't made to send HTML emails, and the fix I posted wasn't a very good one

[phonexpo]

Originally Posted by 1Unreal

To be honest no. The best way to fix that would be to edit the phrases of the emails being sent and replace the new lines with <br />'s.

Its because vB isn't made to send HTML emails, and the fix I posted wasn't a very good one

Thanks Ben, I've done that now and it's now the same as the original.

Here is the code;

 
The following message was sent to you via the $vboptions[bbtitle] Contact Us form by $name ( mailto:$email ).
<br/>
<br/>
--------------------------------
<br/>
<br/>
$message
<br/>
<br/>
--------------------------------
<br/>
<br/>
Referring Page: $url
<br/>
IP Address: $ip
<br/>
User Name: $bbuserinfo[username]
<br/>
User ID: $bbuserinfo[userid]
<br/>
Email: $email

All the best,

Patrick

[Konstantinos]

cool but the member who gets the auto email see himself as sender it doesnt show the send as forumname but sender@ forumname

also whats the difference of using this instead of adding an autoresponder in cpanel ?