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vBulletin POP3 / IMAP Email Client
Version 1.4 for vBulletin 3.x.x by Dr Erwin Loh

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!

If you see this error message, you do NOT have IMAP compiled with PHP:

Quote:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/yourforums/public_html/forum/email.php on line 652

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

Enjoy!

Add-Ons (OPTIONAL) -

1) 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!

2) Force user to use a specific mail server:

In email.php, find:

PHP Code:


			
$HTML .= "<tr><td align=right>Server: </td><td><input TYPE=text NAME=host value='$host'></td></tr>\n";

Change to:

PHP Code:


			
$HTML .= "<input TYPE=hidden NAME=host value='mail.yourserver.com'>";

Change 'mail.yourserver.com' to your own mail server subdomain name.

3) To force users to use only POP3 or IMAP

In email.php, find:

PHP Code:


			
$HTML .= "<tr><td align=right>Type: </td><td> POP3<INPUT TYPE=radio size=1 NAME=opt group=opt value='POP3' checked>";
$HTML .= "IMAP <INPUT TYPE=radio size=1 NAME=opt group=opt value='IMAP'></td></tr>";
// $HTML .= "<input type='hidden' name='opt' value='POP3'>\n"; // set to IMAP als IMAP

Replace with:

PHP Code:


			
$HTML .= "<input type='hidden' name='opt' value='POP3'>";

Change POP3 to IMAP if you wish.

Updates:

Version 1.1 - removed the vB2 variable $bburl which was left over.
Version 1.2 - removed the vB2 variable $bbtitle, changed it to vB3, and also fixed up the table heading variable - purely cosmetic.
Version 1.3 - added automatic navbar support.
Version 1.4 - fixed email address server name domains, removed 1 query by caching template, fixed Attachment: alignment.

Screenshots:

1. Login screen
2. List of emails
3. Reading emails
4. Composing emails

Enjoy!

EH-Jay · #**232** 03-17-2005, 11:27 PM

Works 100% perfect. EXACTLY what I wanted. Awesome job! Also it's easy to modify too

Erwin · #**233** 03-20-2005, 08:41 PM

This hacks works fine for some servers, not for others - it's to do with the different OS installs and firewall settings. All I can say is that it works for most servers.

integra99 · #**234** 03-24-2005, 04:51 AM

I'd find it helpful to add the following features. If you coulduseonedomain to login and authenticate for checking mail, but be abletosetanother domain to actually put on the headers for the emailaddressandthe one listed at the top of every page as the address.

The way my web hosting is setup, I have one main domain thatalltheemail accounts are setup under. The email names from theotherdomainsare just aliases.

i.e. use User1@domain1.com for authentication, but use User1@domain2.com in the header information, 'from' address, listed at the top of the page, etc.

Flow Fusion · #**235** 04-01-2005, 11:13 AM

thank you worked perfectly

TCM · #**236** 04-02-2005, 06:21 PM

Hi. This hack looks awesome, and I decided I'd use it to set up IMAP accounts for my moderators. I created profile fields that could only be access from the admincp to hold the username and password, and I was forcing it to use our server for mail. They'd get no permission if I hadn't entered a username and password for them. If they had, all they'd see is the log-in button. (If I get this working I'll probably make it auto-login, but I won't worry about that until later)

Didn't work. I always get the "Unable to login with the information you entered. Please login again." error.

Here's the section of the code I've modified.

PHP Code:


			
    if (!$session_server)

        {

      $user = $bbuserinfo['field20'];

      $host = "tasteslikespam.com"; 

      $pass = $bbuserinfo['field21']; 

        if ($message) $HTML .= "<font size=-1>$message</font>";

        $HTML .= "<form ACTION='email.php?CMD=cookie' METHOD='post'>\n";

        $HTML .= "<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%><tr><td align=center colspan=2><br><b>vB POP3 / IMAP Email Login Client 1.4 - by Dr. Erwin Loh</b><br><br></td>\n";

        $HTML .= "<input TYPE=hidden NAME=username value='$user'>";

        $HTML .= "<input TYPE=hidden NAME=host value='$host'>";

        $HTML .= "<input TYPE=hidden NAME=pass value='$pass'>";

      $HTML .= "<input type='hidden' name='opt' value='IMAP'>"; 

        $HTML .= "<tr><td align=center colspan=2><input type=\"submit\" class=\"button\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Login\" accesskey=\"s\" tabindex=\"3\">";

        $HTML .= "</td></tr></table></form><br /><br />";

When I test them same login and server in thunderbird, it works fine.

What did I do wrong? Does it seem like it's just my server?

EDIT: Nevermind, I've got it working.

boo.3 · #**237** 05-17-2005, 03:35 PM

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/b3playg/public_html/forums/email.php on line 695

Erwin · #**238** 05-18-2005, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boo.3

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/b3playg/public_html/forums/email.php on line 695

Read the first post. You don't have IMAP compiled in PHP.

COBRAws · #**239** 05-23-2005, 04:58 PM

is there an addon or way to integrate de "new post" or "new thread" editor for this? So we can give HTML format to emails

thanx in advance

Erwin · #**240** 05-25-2005, 02:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by COBRAws

is there an addon or way to integrate de "new post" or "new thread" editor for this? So we can give HTML format to emails

thanx in advance

Not at the moment. It can be done but I don't have time to do this.

H@K@N · #**241** 06-02-2005, 11:14 AM

Hello Erwin,

i have updated my php4.3.11 > php 5.0.4

Now i am getting a blank page, when i try to execute the Page.

My error_log is saying following:

Code:

PHP Fatal error:  Cannot re-assign $this in /srv/www/htdocs/web1/html/email_istek.php on line 120

Line 120 says:

Code:

if (is_array($num)) $this=$num[$i]; else $this=$num;

do u know, what could be the reason ?

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