vB POP3 / IMAP Email Client 1.4 - Web-based access to POP email accounts

vB POP3 / IMAP Email Client 1.4 - by Dr. Erwin Loh

vB3 version here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=66247

World's easiest hack to install! Upload a file, and you're done! No templates to add, no files to edit!!!

Ever wanted to access your POP3 or IMAP email account when you are away from your Outlook Express? Sick of Hotmail and free web-based email addresses, and want to just stick with your ISP email account? Want to be able to use a web-based interface? Want to be able to integrate this interface into your forums and offer it to your members?

Here we have it - I've created a file that does all that.

Features:

1. Only 1 file to upload, no templates, no file edits!
2. Automatic integration into your forums, with your forum colors and layout.
3. Accesses any POP3 or IMAP email account.
4. Ability to bypass any firewalls that any mail servers may have.
5. Ability to READ, REPLY, REPLY ALL, DELETE, FORWARD, and COMPOSE emails using the interface.
6. Ability to read HTML emails.
7. Ability to ATTACH files.
8. Ability to VIEW / DOWNLOAD ATTACHMENTS.
9. Ability to show HEADERS of emails.
10. Ability to allow certain usergroups access to this.
11. Ability to allow or disallow users from changing their FROM: email address
12. Ability to let yourself change the FROM: email address at at all times.
13. Your user can use this to access their ISP email account, or (Yahoo email or Hotmail premium accounts) via your forums!


Installation:

Upload email.php into your forums directory, link to it, and you've got an instant web-based POP3/ IMAP email interface in your forums!

Nothing else to do!

By default, this allows registered members, moderators and admins access only. You can edit the top of email.php to add or remove usergroupids easily.

Settings:

At the top of the PHP file, you can change the variables to:

1. Decide which usergroups can use this
2. Allow or disallow the changing of the FROM: email address (security update)
3. Exempt yourself so you can always change the FROM: email address

Requirements:

1) This hack requires PHP 4 or higher on your server.

2) This hack requires you to have IMAP support compiled with PHP on your server. If you get a error like "imap_open undefined function", then you dont have IMAP support. Sorry!


Please click the install link at the bottom of this thread for updates.

Enjoy!

Add-On (OPTIONAL) - Username and Mail Server saved in Member Profile:

To make the Username and Password become part of a member's profile (I don't suggest to include password as well as staff can then have access to this), just create 2 custom profile fields in your Admin CP - one for Username, the other for Mail Host Server. Make sure they do not show up in the user's profile.

Then, note down the custom profile ID number of each of the 2 custom profile fields (hover your mouse over the link to each, and it's the number at the very end of the URL in the status bar).

Then, in email.php, find:

PHP Code:

if ($CMD=="")
    {
    if (!$session_server)
        { 


Underneath, add:

PHP Code:

$user = $bbuserinfo[fieldx];
$host = $bbuserinfo[fieldy]; 


Change x to the ID number of the username profile ID, and y to the ID number of the host mail server profile ID. Done!

Updates

Version 1.1 - Fixed <td> errors. Fixed error where message did not show when attachment present.

Version 1.2 - Security update - Added settings at the top of the PHP file that you can change to allow or disallow users from changing their FROM: email address. You can exempt yourself and always be able to change your own FROM: email address by modifying the userid here as well.

Version 1.3 - Fixed header text colors - Minor cosmetic improvements - Fixed Attachment Viewer and Downloader!!!

Version 1.4 - Fixed PHP header and cookie problem for certain servers that prevented login.

Screenshots:

Attachment: email.jpg
Courtesy of irn-bru.

Download:

When downloading, make sure it's the latest version - 1.4 (it will say this at the top of the PHP file).

[ajk]

Is there a syntax to force them to use one server?
Example: mail.myserver.com?

Thanks

[Erwin]

Yes there is, and the answer to that is somewhere in this thread already.

[Ian Cunningham]

Is there any way so that when a user opens email.php they will automatically be logged into a specific account (i.e predefined $hosts, $pass, $user). Basically, I want all of my mods to only be allowed access to the file and for it to check a single account for news.

[Erwin]

Yesterday at 11:06 PM Ian Cunningham said this in Post #223
Is there any way so that when a user opens email.php they will automatically be logged into a specific account (i.e predefined $hosts, $pass, $user). Basically, I want all of my mods to only be allowed access to the file and for it to check a single account for news.

Not hard to do at all.

Edit email.php and find:

PHP Code:

        $errormessage .= "<tr><td align=right><normalfont>Username: </normalfont></td><td><input TYPE=text NAME=user value='$user'></td>\n";
        $errormessage .= "<tr><td align=right><normalfont>Server: </normalfont></td><td><input TYPE=text NAME=host value='$host'></td></tr>\n";
        $errormessage .= "<tr><td align=right><normalfont>Password: </normalfont></td><td> <input TYPE=password NAME=pass></td></tr>\n"; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$user = "Username";
$host = "mail.server.com";
$pass = "Password";
        $errormessage .= "<tr><td align=right> </normalfont></td><td><input TYPE=hidden NAME=user value='$user'></td>\n";
        $errormessage .= "<tr><td align=right></td><td><input TYPE=hidden NAME=host value='$host'></td></tr>\n";
        $errormessage .= "<tr><td align=right></td><td> <input TYPE=hidden NAME=pass value=$password></td></tr>\n"; 


Edit the values here:
$user = "Username";
$host = "mail.server.com";
$pass = "Password";

It should work... Feel free to edit that bit of code so that it looks the way you want it to.

[Ian Cunningham]

cheers Thats what I am using at the moment, but is there any way to skip this section automatically, i.e it just logged in?

Thanks

[TheVoidz]

Hmmm I got a small problem, Recieving emails works fine but I can't send them, any ideas? oh ya and theres no errors.

[Ian Cunningham]

This doesnt seem to work with the latest version of PHP... any ideas? I got this help from my hosts.

PHP has been upgraded and you may need to connect to the mail server in a diferent way. With the latest version of PHP, you need to connect to the mail server using;

$inbox = @imap_open ("{server.com/pop3:110/notls}", $username, $password);

[Erwin]

This definitely works for the newest versions of PHP - I know because I use the latest version.

PHP needs to be compiled with IMAP support. That's missing from your host. Your host needs to recompile PHP with IMAP for this to work.

[Ian Cunningham]

ah, ok. The reason I told my hosts it didn't work was because after I have submitted the form I just end up on a server not found page - and this only happened after the PHP update

[Ian Cunningham]

looks like it is compiled : http://juliet.dnsaction.com/serverphpinfo