WMail - a POP3/SMTP Webmailer for vBulletin

What is this?
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WMail is a "webmail client" - a front end, like a mail tool installed locally on your PC, for using POP3/SMTP mailboxes.

In short:
WMail adds POP3/SMTP access to vBulletin.

A live demo can currentliy be found on my testing board here:
http://vbdev.area-42.net/wmail.php


Key features:

• The obvious: Getting mailbox content, reading mails from every POP3 mailbox and sending mails through any SMTP server (configurable in the user options)
• written from scratch, spezificially to be used with vBulletin 3.5.x - not a port of something
• fully phrased and templated down to the last bit
• Full multipart support for downloading (and sending) attachments
• When reading mail the mail text is parsed for BB-Codes, so you get the graphical smillies from the forum, text formatting and URLs automatically become clickable links
• When replying to, or forwarding, mail the text of the original mail is quoted, propper quotemarks are added and a quote-header is added (customizable via template)
• various options for admin and users to customize the webmail client
• Does NOT require any special modules to be compiled into your PHP installation (like the IMAP libraries)
  (for techies: this uses basic socket connections instead of special PHP function calls)
• Admin can override certain aspects of the user config (forcing to use a given mailserver, force using forum email address and such)
• Write your mails using vB's WYSIWYG editor
• buildin (yet simple) addressbook for your E-Mail contacts
• Read/Unread markings - unread mails are highlighted, options for "mark selected read", "mark all read" and "mark selected unread"
• custom hooks to make it easy to develop addons for it
• automatically adds links to the webmailer in "Quick Links" menu, navbar and UserCP. Usualy no template edits needed when using default ones (can be disabled for each link in admin options)

Planned features:

• Support for multiple config sets per user
  (and so multiple mailbox accounts that can be querried)
• Sort mails into folders
• User configurable filters (for automatically sorting mails into folders)
• Preview of mailtext in inbox view (bellow subject)
• Forward mails as PM / Forward PMs as mail
• Reply to threads and PMs by mail
• Give/Provide your members an own eMail adress and inbox on your forums!
  • Members can recieve and send mails as "username@forumdomain.tld" without the need for an own POP3 account anywhere
  • Admin only needs ONE "real" POP3 box as "catch all".

Installation
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Level : EASY
Duration : a minute or so
Files to upload : yes (11)
Products to import : yes (1)
Templates to edit : usually none


ChangeLog
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1.00 - first final release

• Fixed some minor bugs
• Login details are no longer stored as plain text in the database (*see note bellow!)
• Added option to save login details in a cookie on the users local computer instead of storing them in the forum's database

* Note on storing the login details in the database:
The login details are only base64 encoded when stored in the database.
A more secure encryption would make no sense anyway, the login details must be decrypted to be passed to the POP3/SMTP server - one well placed line of additional code in the POP3 or SMTP class could save the decrypted info anywhere the admin likes.
This "encoding" is only meant to prevent login details to be read (in plaintext) when doing maintanance to the database and stepping over it.
For fully securing the login details the "Save in cookie" option has been added.

Known Issues:

• On some installations mass deletion of mails (via "Delete Selected" from the inbox view) does not delete all mails
• Sometimes you get "-4 mails in inbox" - reloading the page then shows the correct inbox again

Besides of those two issues, that do not really break the function of the webmailer, it seemed to run pretty stable so far - that's why I decided to release 1.00 without having them resolved.


(more changelog entries in the readme)

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This vBulletin extension is FREE! Be welcome to download and use it.
However, if you feel like supporting further development any donation is appreciated :bunny:

[hitboy]

Does this mod work with 3.6.4? Also great mod by the way!

[Chadi]

Just bumped into this, looks nice. A quick few questions:

- can this be assigned to select usergroups?
- is there a way to automatically create a user@forumdomain.com email (or even manually)?

I may be misunderstanding the core intent of this mod, forgive me

[Chadi]

[fixed]

[sonichero]

Is there an install guide somewhere, step by step? I have everything in the upload folder uploaded, but i do not get the Wmail links in the forums interface. What do I do with the XML file?

[alisisman61]

thanks ..

[abroad]

yeah..:I also uploaded everything. I also find the WMail Options under the vbulletin options but even when I switch everything to yes there are no links appearing in my forum or my vbadvanced CMS...

[Davidspl]

Hi, i have been getting this error only lately, it was working fine before... any suggestions?

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO wmail_readmarks (userid, msgid) VALUES ('4', '01c07380$347bca70$6c822ecf@defermentsmischief's') ;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 's')' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Date : Monday, April 9th 2007 @ 02:35:54 PM

[breamy1990]

cant wait for this update

* Give/Provide your members an own eMail adress and inbox on your forums!
o Members can recieve and send mails as "username@forumdomain.tld" without the need for an own POP3 account anywhere
o Admin only needs ONE "real" POP3 box as "catch all".

[Rickeo]

When is the update expected to be out??

[keharris53]

I'm new to this sort of thing. How do I install? Thanks.