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).

[Erwin]

Well, I don't have that problem at all, and I'm using Windows XP SP1, and IE 6.02.

My cookies work fine... so I can't imagine what's the problem...

[verbum]

It's the darndest thing. I'd re-read this entire thread looking for any hint of this phenomenon. I'd initially blown off my solo experience as coincidence (trying to avoid the post hoc ergo...trap); but when the only other person who used it wrote to me of an identical problem...well, I did some ballpark odds-figuring.

The hack does work, by the way

Now if I can only figure out the cache problem.

[Erwin]

Are you using the latest version? We fixed a cookie problem in version 1.4.

It would seem that certain servers have trouble with this hack for whatever reason... when I find time I will look into it a bit more...

[verbum]

Yes, I downloaded version 1.4 (three days ago, I think). I compiled IMAP with php, and the hack seemed to work just fine.
I don't get the same problem when using Opera, for example (and neither does the other user)--just IE6.

Stranger still, even with the hack deleted, the cache problem persists. It's because of the entirety of the series of events that I believe that the cache issue ties in with the email hack. Super-coincidences? Could be, I suppose; but the sequence of things suggests otherwise.

Thanks for taking the time to read, Erwin


Tom

[jbear6]

Well, I had this working since the day it was released. I haven't used it for a week or so, and when I tried to use it today, I get this error message: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home2/jbear6/public_html/email.php on line 618".

I also uploaded the newest version, with the same results. Is this the error message you receive if imap is not compiled on the server (even though it was there last week)?

Thanks for any help
Jbear6

[Jim Mayhugh]

If you're on a shared server, it looks like they updated PHp without IMAP support.

[Erwin]

Jim is right. Your PHP no longer has IMAP compiled. Talk to your host to put it back in.

[jbear6]

Thanks guys, yes it is on a shared server, and they have been trying many possible fixes for the "new" MySQL problem . I guess they upgraded PHP also.

Thanks again,
Jbear6

[DaveRobbo]

Hi Erwin - great hack as usual

I do have a couple of questions/concerns though - one *potentially* very serious - I'd appreciate you giving it some thought.

The serious problem is to do with "Who's Online" locations ... when I first log into a POP3 mailbox, Who's Online shows me as "unknown location - email.php" .. and a long session ID string. And this link is clickable! If someone were to click that link, would they get into my mailbox?

I know there is a "how to" somewhere in here about adding new locations to the "who's online" list ... maybe if my worries are correct you need to add a new "location" for "reading mail" ? Can you explain in simpler terms than the "how to", how to do this?

The second problem I'm noticing is that when I actually view a message, i seem to get everything twice - right down from my forum header to footer immediately after the message (i.e. header, mail body, forum footer, header, message and footer again)

Also if the email has stationary (html backgrounds) this stationary seems to be used in my forum header too! A bug in the html mail viewer maybe?

Great work though - sorry if any of these have been mentioned before - I've tried to read through the entire thread again but can't find anyof them mentioned.

Dave

[kushtiUK]

Today at 11:29 AM DaveRobbo said this in Post #199


I know there is a "how to" somewhere in here about adding new locations to the "who's online" list ... maybe if my worries are correct you need to add a new "location" for "reading mail" ? Can you explain in simpler terms than the "how to", how to do this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...known+location