vB POP3 / IMAP Email Client 1.4 - Web-based access to POP email accounts

vB POP3 / IMAP Email Client 1.4 - by Dr. Erwin Loh

vB3 version here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=66247

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!


Please click the install link at the bottom of this thread for updates.

Enjoy!

Add-On (OPTIONAL) - 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!

Updates

Version 1.1 - Fixed <td> errors. Fixed error where message did not show when attachment present.

Version 1.2 - Security update - Added settings at the top of the PHP file that you can change to allow or disallow users from changing their FROM: email address. You can exempt yourself and always be able to change your own FROM: email address by modifying the userid here as well.

Version 1.3 - Fixed header text colors - Minor cosmetic improvements - Fixed Attachment Viewer and Downloader!!!

Version 1.4 - Fixed PHP header and cookie problem for certain servers that prevented login.

Screenshots:

Attachment: email.jpg
Courtesy of irn-bru.

Download:

When downloading, make sure it's the latest version - 1.4 (it will say this at the top of the PHP file).

[jbear6]

Today at 05:29 AM DaveRobbo said this in Post #199
The serious problem is to do with "Who's Online" locations ... when I first log into a POP3 mailbox, Who's Online shows me as "unknown location - email.php" .. and a long session ID string. And this link is clickable! If someone were to click that link, would they get into my mailbox?
Dave

I think only the Admin (and maybe Mods) can see the "Unknown Location" link on WOL. A regular registered member will see "Main Index" as the location of the person using email.php.

Jbear6

[DaveRobbo]

Thank you Jbear ... I hoped that was the case ... but I was looking for confirmation.

It may still be a useful addition to Erwin's hack to provide specific instructions on how to add the email.php to the "Who's Online" locations ... thx Kushti - I knew where the "how to" was .. I just don't find it terribly easy reading

[Erwin]

Install Firefly's "Who's Online Location" hack - it lets you add other files to Who's Online using your Admin CP. I use it all the time, and it saves you from hacking online.php all the time.

[DaveRobbo]

Thank you Erwin

Any comment on the other points I raised?

[solent]

i have the same proplem as most of the ppl had with the imap_function but then i re-compiled my php with imap enabled and it worked liked a charm.

ppl that still have the impa_function problem it will be a good idea to contact your host to re-compile php with imap enabled.

excellent hack dude.

very nice works

thanks very much

[Erwin]

04-17-03 at 08:29 PM DaveRobbo said this in Post #199
The second problem I'm noticing is that when I actually view a message, i seem to get everything twice - right down from my forum header to footer immediately after the message (i.e. header, mail body, forum footer, header, message and footer again)

Also if the email has stationary (html backgrounds) this stationary seems to be used in my forum header too! A bug in the html mail viewer maybe?

Mmm... it's another server-specific problem - this hack is very sensitive to individual server setups, etc... I don't really understand why to be honest. What browser did you use? Does it happen with another browser? The only thing to do is to experiment with the hack, change the cookie/ sessionhash settings a bit, see if it helps.

[bandersen]

I changed server to someone that compile IMAP (venturesonline) - and the hack works like a charm!

[vB-Host.com]

Nice job! Easy install!



Can you tell me how I can make the mail server a hidden field so it can't be changed to what ever so it can be used only by my customers?

[vB-Host.com]

also can pop3 be a hidden field too? so it would be two fields only showing... user and pass. It gets it is a pop3 server and the mx of the server via hidden fields...

[Grunt]

check through the pages of the thread...i asked the same thing and got an answer