vBulletin POP3 / IMAP Email Client for vB3 - Web-based access to POP email accounts!

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:

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!

[DjTaz]

Originally Posted by The Prohacker

Still having trouble with no return sender with this hack.

While I'm composing the message, my user name shows up in the "From" box, like the first picture attached.

However, when I send it to my test gmail account, the message I receive is from "Unknown Sender", and the "Reply To" box is empty, like in pictures 2 and 3.

If I change to this...:

//You can allow or disallow users from changing the FROM email address by switching this to 0 for no or 1 for yes
$allowfromchange = "1";

...the hack works perfectly and my user name shows up in the test email "From" box, and is also in the "Reply To" box.
Which is perfect, except I do not want the other users to have the ability to change the "From" to an admin or mods nick and pass off the email as coming from someoene else.
I also do not want the users to have email being sent from "Unknown Sender" though.

If I switch it back to "0" however, I again get an email from "Unknown Sender" and the "Reply To" box is empty.

I know I can also change the third option to have myself as the only one allowed to change the "From" variable, however again, I don't want the other user's having emails sent from "Unknown Sender's".

Anybody have any ideas?
I really like this hack, but need to configure it properly.

I was having the same issues as you with the UNKNOWN SENDER so i took a look around and may have got lucky.

around line 672(ish- ive hacked mine a lot at this stage )

 
elseif ($CMD=="send")
	{
	$head="From: $fr\n";

change to

elseif ($CMD=="send")
	{
	$loginmail=strtolower($bbuserinfo[username])."@yourdomain.com";
	$head="From: $loginmail\n";

This seemed to fix the issue of the senders name not showing up though im not sure if it had any adverse effect on things as i havent tested it enough yet.
I was busy working on automating each new user getting an e-mail account as soon as they log in and i have that sorted now as well (to a degree anyway)

[dreck]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I'm getting some weird errors, but the hack itself works. I may post a beta version at some stage...

nice, looking forward to it!

[DjTaz]

Brillint hack - this is ALMOST perfectly what i wanted.

I have integrated this into my site in such a way that as soon as members sign up to my site they get an e-mail address with thier username and my domain as their email (username@mydomain.com) - this is the only e-mail they can access from my site and i have limited each account to 1 meg.

What i would love is a few things really if anyone has any ideas

1. Can i display if they have new mail on the main pages on the site (say forum home).
2. Can i show a SENT folder for the mails they have sent , like most mailboxes ?
3. Possibility of a contacts page
4. If a message has been viewed , it displays as OLD and if not NEW

I think this would be perfect if i could get them things as well.

[dreck]

did anyone get this to work with 3.5?

[DjTaz]

I eventually ended up uninstalling this script. Not because it was bad or caused any problems , but because i decided to install squirrelmail as a full mail system instead.

I had to hack it a lot to get rid of the frames (ended up just hiding it and adding menus to the right frame), but i now have what i want with the contacts and everything else.

For those who are looking for a version for 3.5 - why not take a look at an existing mailbox system and try to integrate that into your site ?
I have a page now on mine that sends the info i need for the mailbox from the boards which makes it run quite smoothly in all.

[Patria]

Another option represents WMail.

[dreck]

Originally Posted by BlackSun

Another option represents WMail.

Yep, I installed wmail few weeks ago, works great! :banana:

[yahoooh]

is there new version for 3.6.8?
this hack is greeat addition for our forum

[Fabsboards]

Does this work with 3.7.0 Gold?

If not....

Google now offers "Gmail for your domains". Free IMAP email

Problem - I hate Gmail's web interface. I want something integrated with vb.

Are there any modules that will give me this capability?

[fdv]

I have installed it, but :

Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in /var/www/gex/lrtiki.info/web/forum/email.php on line 120