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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:

Quote:

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!

Erwin · #82 06-22-2004, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 58sniper

Okay - a couple of suggestions....

1. The attachment label and button should be on a new table row - otherwise they stretch fixed tables. I fixed this in my copy, but an overall fix would be nice.

2. It would be nice if this also included the ability to update WHO'S ONLINE to show as "Checking Email" or something similar instead of "Unknown Location /forum/email.php?CMD=compose"

3. The ability to grant access to this based on usergroups would be especially cool....

3. Is already possible - look and edit the email.php file itself (or read the first post carefully).

Natch · #83 06-22-2004, 04:15 AM

I fuond that whenever I attempt to login, it takes me back to the same page with to alteration to the page, or error msg ...

azmi · #84 06-22-2004, 07:24 AM

@erwin

is there any way to give the permission to special persons fom a forbidden group ?

58sniper · #85 06-22-2004, 09:57 PM

Okay - some things that need to be addressed:

1. The date field should be nowrap
2. The table widths are still screwed, with the table sometimes only being 70% wide.

Also, to make this show up in the WHO'S ONLINE area:

in includes/functions_online.php find

Code:

case 'attachment':
			$userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['viewing_attachment'];
			if ($seetitle)
			{
				$userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$postid#postid=$postid\" title=\"$threadpreview\">$threadtitle</a>";
			}
			break;

under that put

Code:

case 'check_email':
			$userinfo['action'] = "Checking Email";
			$userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"email.php\">Email</a>";
			break;

find

Code:

case 'attachment.php':
		$userinfo['activity'] = 'attachment';
		break;

and insert this under it

Code:

case 'email.php';
		$userinfo['activity'] = 'check_email';
		break;

Erwin · #86 06-23-2004, 12:12 AM

This hack is meant to be plug-and-play - hence I avoided adding instructions for further integration - obviously if members want to modify it for their own forums, they are free to do so.

Kohhal · #87 06-23-2004, 12:36 PM

I've a problem which I don't think has come up yet.

When sending a mail to another account from within this email client the "From" address is not working correctly. It works ok for me if I allow myself the ability to change it but the other way ie. in normal operation - the mail that arrives shows "nobody@myhost.com" in the "From" field?

Any idea why this is happening? :disappointed:

Erwin · #88 06-23-2004, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMasterG

I've a problem which I don't think has come up yet.

When sending a mail to another account from within this email client the "From" address is not working correctly. It works ok for me if I allow myself the ability to change it but the other way ie. in normal operation - the mail that arrives shows "nobody@myhost.com" in the "From" field?

Any idea why this is happening? :disappointed:

Interesting... this is dependent on who owns the php files on your server - most servers which do not have suexec on for apache and/or php will have the user nobody own the web files, hence the name nobody. To be perfectly honest, I don't know how to go around it, except to advise to try to switch on suexec for apache first, and if that doesn't help, recompile php with phpsuexec. On my server, all I needed was suexec for apache.

Boofo · #89 06-23-2004, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erwin

Interesting... this is dependent on who owns the php files on your server - most servers which do not have suexec on for apache and/or php will have the user nobody own the web files, hence the name nobody. To be perfectly honest, I don't know how to go around it, except to advise to try to switch on suexec for apache first, and if that doesn't help, recompile php with phpsuexec. On my server, all I needed was suexec for apache.

Does it hurt to have them both turned on?

kall · #90 06-23-2004, 11:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMasterG

I've a problem which I don't think has come up yet.

When sending a mail to another account from within this email client the "From" address is not working correctly. It works ok for me if I allow myself the ability to change it but the other way ie. in normal operation - the mail that arrives shows "nobody@myhost.com" in the "From" field?

Any idea why this is happening? :disappointed:

Err...have I been tachied or something?

Check this post that I made in this thread.

It fixed the issue for me.

Erwin · #91 06-24-2004, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boofo

Does it hurt to have them both turned on?

Having them turned on increases the load ever so slightly. You should have the apache one on. The php one caused some load issues and other bugs for me so I don't compile php with it.

And thanks kall!

Maybe I should add it to my hack...

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