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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!

eblivion · #**182** 09-29-2004, 09:33 PM

I wasn't able to fix the script error with the select all "From" checkbox. Here's the error in Internet Explorer:

Line: 977
Char: 3
Error: 'document.forms.0.allemaal.checked' is not null or not an object
Code: 0

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

eblivion · #**183** 09-29-2004, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

Great hack my friend...can someone tell me one thing...I seem to remember a screen that shows logging in...please wait.....

And then when logging out another screen that shows logging out...please wait...

Right now, all I have when I logout is this - michael@xtremeoff-road.com and then it says "You Have Been Logged Out" Is that the way it should be?

Does this make sense at all???

Mike

That IS what you should get. I think it's a nice touch.

Erwin · #**184** 09-29-2004, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eblivion

I wasn't able to fix the script error with the select all "From" checkbox. Here's the error in Internet Explorer:

Line: 977
Char: 3
Error: 'document.forms.0.allemaal.checked' is not null or not an object
Code: 0

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

I'll take a look when I find time.

Never noticed it.

eblivion · #**185** 09-29-2004, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erwin

I'll take a look when I find time.

Never noticed it.

~ Thanks ~

dieselpowered · #**186** 09-29-2004, 11:19 PM

ok cool, just making sure...I thought it said something different before

Thanks!

Mike

zer026 · #**187** 09-29-2004, 11:30 PM

First off I must say great job Erwin! However I've noticed a rather large problem. When you view html-based email it for some odd reason changes the forum page background to the page attributes coded in the email.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Ber|Art · #**188** 10-15-2004, 09:41 AM

Thank you very much this is working great, also the navbar add is OK

ndahiya · #**189** 10-23-2004, 08:02 PM

firstly, it is a great mod!

but seem to be running into a small problem

my pop username is "user+domain.com@domain.com"

when i send a mail from email.php, it goes ok, but the recipient sees no sender ("sender unspecified")... what is a workaround for this?

one possible solution::: vbulletin itself sends mails with well-formed From: addresses. wonder if that module can be used to send a mail ?

ndahiya

samjo · #**190** 10-27-2004, 01:12 AM

Err, ok, i?ll try to post with my little knowledge in using english, ?cause it?s about some years ago when i learned it in school

anyway, first of all, big thx for this "hack", it?s working fine so far at my vbb, except the problem ndahiya mentioned at last in this thread.

what about an additional input field to set the desired email-address and show it instead of the server?s name? didn?t tried it so far, but think it couldn?t be that kind of work, could it?

well, the reason for which i do this post is another:
i did a little work on the email.php and translated all shown texts into german. for there was a little [in german it is: "Meinungsverschiedenheit"

] for the german translation of the v3arcade-hack, i decided to myself to post it at vb.org at first and than ask if it is ok to post it on the vbulletin-germany-board.

there for i?ve got another question about the code:
how do i get the send-date formatted in german to the "reply"-page?
for example there is actually shown:"On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:27:19 <email-sender> wrote:"
but i?d like to see there something like this:" Am Die, 26.Okt 2004 11:27:19 schrieb <email-sender>"
Would be fine, if someone could give some help to this, ?cause it?s the last thing that is not shown in german.

Thx,
and Greetz,
from SamJo

[German translated email.php attached]

h75 · #**191** 10-27-2004, 12:53 PM

unbelievable

I clicked the virtuell "install"-Button In

Meinungsverschiedenheit = variance of opinion or difference in opinions or disagreement

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