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:

[Tri@de]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

Huh?
What are you trying to tell me there???

Hehhee i'll try to translate:

Hey Hellcat! You don't answer my question?

:P

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by +buG

I was hoping you could add your input on this post https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=283

I guess I could try and fix it if I knew where to start :|

The first screenshot is your addressbook, as long you haven't added any entries it's empty

None of the buttons do anything???

[rmxs]

Originally Posted by rmxs

Yes i do it...i also unistall it and i install it again...same thing..
I CAN SENT Mails...byt no receive

What about my problem???

Its a bug??

That happent only with the last release.

Also what happent with

Uncached templates: webmail_mailbox (1)
Uncached templates: webmail_mailboxitem (1)

[da420]

I tried GMail to test it out with my GMail settings, and I got this.

An error accoured while connecting to your POP3 server!

[+buG]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

None of the buttons do anything???

Correct I played with it a bit and realized that I could delete mails sent to me from gmail & hotmail accounts etc. I had been testing the mail script by emailing myself. I have concluded that emailing yourself results in rendering the buttons useless with those emails. Is there anyway to fix this?

[Hellcat]

@rmxs:
it's weird since I didn't change anything there, but I'm on it, checking....

@da420:
GMail requieres a SSL connection, this is not yet implemented, but I have an idea that hopefully will work....

@+buG:
With the help of Parker Clack there seem to have some bugs fixed for that buttons, let's see if this also helps you

To upgrade, just overwrite with new files and re-import the product, correct?

I don't see a readme and I love this hack, just want to be 100% sure before I break it.

[da420]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

@da420:
GMail requieres a SSL connection, this is not yet implemented, but I have an idea that hopefully will work....

Very good.

Can't wait to see this hack fully developed. Keep up the good work Hellcat, and others that provide us with these wonderful additions to vBulletin!

[StuntFactoryX]

i need a little help understanding. i have never used a email client. through my host i could set up 1 account like users@example.com and in my admincp i can enter the correct fields as default for that email? and all my users can work of that one adress? like myusername@example.com and they can set up there own email password? i just have to supply the main password for the host given emai in the admin cp and this hack will distribute the emails to the correct user within my vb? so i could have 150 emails accounts all working of that 1? sorry for the newbie questions.

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

To upgrade, just overwrite with new files and re-import the product, correct?

I don't see a readme and I love this hack, just want to be 100% sure before I break it.

Yep, that's how I put it on my public dev server.
Just reupload and reimport with "Allow Overwrite"

Originally Posted by StuntFactoryX

i need a little help understanding. i have never used a email client. through my host i could set up 1 account like users@example.com and in my admincp i can enter the correct fields as default for that email? and all my users can work of that one adress? like myusername@example.com and they can set up there own email password? i just have to supply the main password for the host given emai in the admin cp and this hack will distribute the emails to the correct user within my vb? so i could have 150 emails accounts all working of that 1? sorry for the newbie questions.

Hi.
First off: As posted several times before it is currently not possible to provide eMail accounts to members with this.

It is, however, the next feature to come, I am currently working on this.

Next is, the options in the AdminCP are for forcing/overriding the user settable options.
So, if you want to FORCE ppl using a special mail server, enter it there.
If you want ppl to allow to use ANY server you MUST leave those fields empty.

(For the moment this doesn't make too much sense, but in the future it will become more important when to eMail providing thing works.)


Then go to your user settings of WMail and set your POP/SMTP server like described by your ISP/provider.