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!

[Deaths]

Hey there,

When I go to <myforum>/email.php I get :

Warning: Unknown(/home/death/public_html/vb/email.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(/home/death/public_html/vb/email.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/home/death/public_html/vb/email.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

I have no idea what I have done wrong , since there is nothing to do wrong :ermm: .
How can I fix this?

Thanks

Oops , fixed it already , it didnt have permitions :nervous: .
Thanks anyway

[boo.3]

nice hack!!!

the text is hard to read on my gray background tho

[boo.3]

where would be to code to change font color?

[achtungbaby]

Great hack. Couple of questions though before I release it to my forum (and please excuse me if they sound dumb and/or they've been asked already):

1) How secure is this? To date I've given out about twenty email accounts to users from my site and nearly all of them access their webmail through a secure connection.

2) How much of a server resource hog is this? I have about 1,200+ emails in my inbox (I'm very slow to respond to emails:P) When I try logging in, it gets to the "now logging you in" page and then basically times-out. I have to hit refresh in order to actually see my inbox. I've tried using another email account and it still takes a while before I actually see some emails.

3) Is there any sort of pagination available?

[jad65]

Thanks for this great hack

Installed and all working fine

1- Just if some one inter any wrong username or server name, coming this erroe and also if login me out affter sometime

PHP Code:

Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {ggg:110/pop3}INBOX in /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/email.php on line 695 


2- and, how to chang font size please ?

Thanks again for help

[sonicdriven]

Worked Perfect for me as well.

[dieselpowered]

Worked fine for me except for the select all check box....Java error?

[NexVision]

My question is I have installed this and its great also added the link in the navbar is there anyway to only make the navbar link show for certain usergroups.

[djjeffa]

Originally Posted by NexVision

My question is I have installed this and its great also added the link in the navbar is there anyway to only make the navbar link show for certain usergroups.

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == X"> $templatevar </if>

[The Prohacker]

Still having trouble with no return sender with this hack.

While I'm composing the message, my user name shows up in the "From" box, like the first picture attached.

However, when I send it to my test gmail account, the message I receive is from "Unknown Sender", and the "Reply To" box is empty, like in pictures 2 and 3.

If I change to this...:

//You can allow or disallow users from changing the FROM email address by switching this to 0 for no or 1 for yes
$allowfromchange = "1";

...the hack works perfectly and my user name shows up in the test email "From" box, and is also in the "Reply To" box.
Which is perfect, except I do not want the other users to have the ability to change the "From" to an admin or mods nick and pass off the email as coming from someoene else.
I also do not want the users to have email being sent from "Unknown Sender" though.

If I switch it back to "0" however, I again get an email from "Unknown Sender" and the "Reply To" box is empty.

I know I can also change the third option to have myself as the only one allowed to change the "From" variable, however again, I don't want the other user's having emails sent from "Unknown Sender's".

Anybody have any ideas?
I really like this hack, but need to configure it properly.