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:

[Hellcat]

@MojoNixon:
All other settings kept saved?
Check your "WMail Options" -> "Global Settings" in the AdminCP and be sure the AUTH-Type there is set to "NO OVERRIDE", then try again.

Originally Posted by TTG

Rcvd: 535 Incorrect authentication data

That's it! That's the problem!
Did you add a "@domain.tld" after the username in the SMTP settigns?
That solved this issue for others that still had sending trouble.
Or vise versa, if you did, try removing it.

[MojoNixon]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

@MojoNixon:
All other settings kept saved?
Check your "WMail Options" -> "Global Settings" in the AdminCP and be sure the AUTH-Type there is set to "NO OVERRIDE", then try again.


That's it! That's the problem!
Did you add a "@domain.tld" after the username in the SMTP settigns?
That solved this issue for others that still had sending trouble.
Or vise versa, if you did, try removing it.

Thanx mate, that solved my problem. I overlooked the options there.

But now another problem, but i guess its a 777 thingy:

Warnung: move_uploaded_file(/home/htdocs/web1/html/board/wmail/temp/a8b7b652e57c5845e310cf0b9f1dd3ad) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /wmail.php (Zeile 499)

Warnung: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/home/htdocs/web1/phptmp/phpXx8RCv' to '/home/htdocs/web1/html/board/wmail/temp/a8b7b652e57c5845e310cf0b9f1dd3ad' in /wmail.php (Zeile 499)

[Hellcat]

Yap.
777 that folder and it should work

[MThornback]

I can't be sure about this....but I think that this caused a problem with my mail host....my domain mail accounts started experiencing problems the day after you got this working....any idea what if anything in the code that could do that? Its a longshot...and i'm not pointing fingers....just trying to trobleshoot

[Tri@de]

There's a way to put multiple pop to check diffent e-mails?

[VBUsers]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

One more thing!

its messing up my style when i send an e-mail

check attachement

i have this same issue, any luck fixing it?

[Cybertims]

where can I remove the :25 bit from the code......I think that is what is causing my problem, it never finds the smtp server at all although I know it's the right address.

If I ping smtp.bulldogdsl.com it finds it fine if I ping smtp.bulldogdsl.com:25 it doenst find anything.

Cheers.

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by MThornback

I can't be sure about this....but I think that this caused a problem with my mail host....my domain mail accounts started experiencing problems the day after you got this working....any idea what if anything in the code that could do that? Its a longshot...and i'm not pointing fingers....just trying to trobleshoot

Hmm, it "talks" to the POP3 and SMTP server just like Outlook would, for example.
So I'd have no idea what could be caused by this....

What kind of problems?

Originally Posted by Tri@de

There's a way to put multiple pop to check diffent e-mails?

Like mentioned a few posts before, a plan to support multiple config sets per user (and so multiple eMail setups/accounts) is already on my ToDo

Originally Posted by lowandloudinc

i have this same issue, any luck fixing it?

Is it a public/free style?
So I could get my hands on it to install it on my dev board for testing and fixing (of my templates)?

Originally Posted by Cybertims

where can I remove the :25 bit from the code......I think that is what is causing my problem, it never finds the smtp server at all although I know it's the right address.

If I ping smtp.bulldogdsl.com it finds it fine if I ping smtp.bulldogdsl.com:25 it doenst find anything.

Cheers.

The ":25" is the TCP port number. It's not inlucded in the actuall address connected to, iport is just a common way to display it.

You can't "ping" a special port, only an IP address (don't want to get to technical here.... unless you ask for )

In the next update you'll have the option to set the port for POP3 and SMTP to whatever you like (it's already finished)

You may ask your host if they are blocking socket connections from PHP scripts....
(I tried connecting to the SMTP sever you posted above on port 25 -> worked)

[VBUsers]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

Is it a public/free style?
So I could get my hands on it to install it on my dev board for testing and fixing (of my templates)?

no its not a free one but i fixed it by changing my smiley count on my postbit. if you find a fix let me know

[TTG]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

That's it! That's the problem!
Did you add a "@domain.tld" after the username in the SMTP settigns?
That solved this issue for others that still had sending trouble.
Or vise versa, if you did, try removing it.

already tried that and still no go :tired:

uninstalled