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!

[Snake]

Excatly. I am looking for a version 3.5 of this hack PLEASE.

[Andreas]

Then ask Erwin if he is going to port it

[Snake]

Well he can reply back to this thread but whatever I'll drop him a PM.

[eljeffe]

Erwin,

For some servers it seems to work perfectly. For others, I am getting a "Unable to login with the information you entered. Please login again." error. I know I am using the right information because other mail clients log in just fine with it.

Do you have a debug mode or anything that might show more messages so I can diagnose this problem? Do you have any suggestions or ideas why we are encountering this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

[lionslair]

This is great thanks

[Creed]

Hrmn, there doesn't seem to be anything that wouldn't work with 3.5, as this actually has almost nothing to do with the actual vB itself. This is basically standalone with the options to integrate, however I haven't been able to get it to work with 3.5 yet either. I'm gonna PM Erwin to see if he is up for releasing a 3.5 version

Ok, I've edited mine to work with v3.5, unfortunately mine is edited so I could take the time to edit the original to update to work with v3.5 which I may do later. However...I have another problem I need to fix first (not related to the script).

[PennylessZ28]

Originally Posted by neocorteqz

Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in /home/neocort2/public_html/email.php on line 120


any ideas?

Originally Posted by Erwin

No idea.

I have the solution to this problem. $this seems to popup alot in vb if you are using php5.

This "feature" was undocumented in PHP4 and was never intended to work.

For background on why support for reassigning $this was dropped, take a
look at http://news.php.net ( php.internals mailing list in particular )
or the ZendEngine2 mailing list which is archived at
http://www.zend.com

But here is how you can fix this, my host is using Php5 and I got the same problem.

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in /email.php on line 120 


Go to line 120:

It should look like this:

PHP Code:

    if (is_array($num)) $this=$num[$i]; else $this=$num; 


Replace it with this

PHP Code:

if (is_array($num)) $this->$num[$i]; else $this->$num; 


replacing the = with -> will correct this problem in most cases using PHP5.

:nervous: Hope this helps.

[PennylessZ28]

Also, is there a way I can program this so everyone is using the same mail server? Like so they don't have to fill it out all the time?

[Creed]

Ok, I've ran into a new problem... I'm getting this:

Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {xxx.xxx.com:110/pop3}INBOX in /email.php on line 683

Now, I'm hoping to shed some light on the 3.5 issue, as this line is unchanged from the port I made from the 3.0.x version that is working without issue.

[dreck]

Creed did you get this working with 3.5?