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Email Integration (New Threads/Replies by and through email!)
Developer Last Online: Dec 2011
This modification allows you to mimic email lists such as yahoo groups through your forums! Complete with the user's receiving emails for new threads and replies AND being able to reply directly from email or sending a new email to start a new thread! Just like email lists, you will need a separate email box for EACH forum that you have this enabled for!! After installing this modification in the forum manager you will enter the settings for each forum to connect to it's own email box. After doing so, members can subscribe to each forum that this mod is enabled for to receive notifications for new threads and replies. Any posts in that forum, will be sent to them via email in one of two formats that you as the administrator decide. One format has a "reply box" and is the most sure fire way of not getting excess email crap ont he forums. The second format (noted as "Old" format) keeps an email in its base pure form with some attempts at quoting messages. Examples of both are attached below. The users can then reply to that email (which will then be processed and posted to the forums through the cron job that runs every 10 minutes), or they can send a new email to the email address and a brand new thread will be created! Essentially mimicing an email list! Suddenly those users that hate forums, can still be dragged into the conversations and help keep the forum's activity level up! IMAP You MUST have php imap functions enabled on your server to use this modification! You do not need to have IMAP installed, just have to enable php to use the functions by recompiling it with imap enabled! If you are upgrading from the version for vbulletin 3.6.x , see below! BUGS! These are the known bugs to date:
These are the items that are not currently supported:
Huge thanks also goes to the many individuals that have helped test various incarnations of this mod. MAD PROPS TO: cgmckeever for a great quoting regex for the old format, and all the mods at www.4winmobile.com for helping test version 2.4 prior to release!! You guys rock! Please feel free to donate to my continued work on this modification!! It let's me spend more time on it! Make a Donation! Version 2.6 will work with both 3.6.8 and 3.7x Upgrading from version for 3.6.x
The #.X.X versions are the beta versions. New features and bug fixes will be worked in there and then when I have a solid version it'll be released as the next #.X Thank you!! ~ Cyricx Supporters / CoAuthors Show Your Support
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Any updates on a 4.x release ? Hell, this one is a must have
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Tagged and waiting for a solution of this mod for vB4...
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Does this mod work with 4.0?
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As a workaround, you can remove the signature from the email template for replies. The users seem to have a signature in their emails in any case. I am using the old format - by popular demand. |
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The man has life issues to deal with, in attempting to focus on he's life, all of a sudden, you wish to condemn the Time and effort spent on it, and countless Forum Administrators the mod has helped, and the sheer goodwill of the author of the Mod in giving the mod for free. Shame. |
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Good afternoon,
I've been having problems with the Mail Integration plug-in, Problem -------- - I create a forum, and apply the Email integration settings, - Add a couple of users to automatically receive email notifications - Create a new thread in the forum - The notification of the new thread arrives to User A, and User B's email account immediately - I reply the email from user A and user B's email accounts. - I log into vbulletin, but the messages don't arrive, after about 10minutes, I run the "Email Integration" cron from the shcedule task Manager - Nothing happens, - Couple of hours later, I log back into the forum, and the messages arrive, after about 3/4 hours, - Sometimes they arrive the next day. - Also often after the messages arrive, they keep duplicating themselfs on the thread, like a loop, till I delete the thread. Please help, I'm on a deadline to solve this. Much thanks in Advance, |
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On further testing the problem is,
The Cron gets the topic/message from the email, but dosen't seem to delete it, so when it runs again, it copies that same email, and now I have many duplicated replies on my vbulletin server. I've set the cron to run every 5 minutes, If your available, i'd appreciate a hand : ] |
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If you use the old message format, here is my patch in the 3.6 forum that gets rid of duplicated messages:https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=953
By 'cron' do you mean the Scheduled Tasks in vBulletin? The Scheduled Tasks run only when the forum has some activity. You can run a PHP command line (CLI) script and schedule it to run every 5 minutes by using the real cron (crontab), or Windows Scheduler, depending on your operating system. The script is in this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1581411&postcount=898 If messages do not get deleted, have a look at this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=886 All these patches are used on vB 3.8.4 with two mailboxes. |
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Thanks for the reply, I just wanted to make sure we're on the same page
1. I've carried out the first task, Adding the patch to stop duplicated messages 2. Yes by Cron, I meant the Email Integration cron that retrieves the mail from the user accounts. Following the link, I did the following -- Created php file forum_read.php, under the vbulletin directory, and copied the code to this file. I replaced the forum url variable, with the vbulletin URL, but where do you find the url requested below; Quote:
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- I'm I missing something so far? - When I run this run_cron.php file from the scheduled task menu, will it run the forum_read.php file, or the EI file, this was a bit confusing. - Also does the EI mod, only run when someone actually opens the forum, Thanks a lot in advance, |
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You may have to tweak the forum_read.php script to run it on the same server, I run it from a different server. Quote:
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