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!

[The Prohacker]

Has anyone mentioned a fix for receiving mail from "unknown sender"?

Everything else is working great, however when I send a message to another of my email accounts during testing I get:

From - unknown sender

and when I try to "Reply to" the address field is blank - I have to manually enter the email address.

Checked through all four pages and haven't seen anything yet.....unless I'm blind

Any help would be appreciated.

[Erwin]

Wow, so many replies. I've been extremely busy - if I have time I'll look into it.

Setting a default email address as a reply is fairly simple to do by just adding that variable as a hidden input. I've been busy with my own site recently, doing 2 migrations in a short period of time - I will look into this when I find the time.

[Viks]

just wish there was a address book with it!

great mod..for admins

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[Sweet Evil]

I get the error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/domain/public_html/forums/email.php on line 695

any ideas?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Sweet Evil

I get the error


any ideas?

Read the first post - you need IMAP compiled with PHP.

[Harry Bo]

Hi all,

I've got a bit of an odd problem... just installed the hack with our own highly-modified 3.0.3. I've added the user profile fields and modded the form as per the instructions - no problems.

When I go to login, IMAP works fine. Loads the folders, shows messages etc - great

However, when I try to login to a POP3 server (I've tried a couple now), it fails and my PHP error log shows:
[18-Nov-2004 21:36:11] PHP Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {mail.domain.com:110/pop3}INBOX in /path/vbb/email.php on line 699

Any ideas? We're on PHP 4.3.8, hosted by Rackspace. If you have any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate your help

Cheers,

HB

[Erwin]

Is port 110 open or blocked by your firewall?

[Harry Bo]

It seems to be open, I just tried logging in to my POP3 server via Telnet from the webserver and there are no issues there

Thanks,

HB

[dookie]

I get

Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {pop3.xxxxxxxx.de:110/pop3}INBOX in /home/htdocs/web11/html/board/email.php on line 693

After that it redirects me to the login-form and displays the message:

Unable to login with the information you entered. Please login again.

But my login informations ARE correct.

[deathemperor]

good news that Gmail now support POP3
but my server could never been compared to Google's T_T