WMail - a POP3/SMTP Webmailer for vBulletin

What is this?
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WMail is a "webmail client" - a front end, like a mail tool installed locally on your PC, for using POP3/SMTP mailboxes.

In short:
WMail adds POP3/SMTP access to vBulletin.

A live demo can currentliy be found on my testing board here:
http://vbdev.area-42.net/wmail.php


Key features:

• The obvious: Getting mailbox content, reading mails from every POP3 mailbox and sending mails through any SMTP server (configurable in the user options)
• written from scratch, spezificially to be used with vBulletin 3.5.x - not a port of something
• fully phrased and templated down to the last bit
• Full multipart support for downloading (and sending) attachments
• When reading mail the mail text is parsed for BB-Codes, so you get the graphical smillies from the forum, text formatting and URLs automatically become clickable links
• When replying to, or forwarding, mail the text of the original mail is quoted, propper quotemarks are added and a quote-header is added (customizable via template)
• various options for admin and users to customize the webmail client
• Does NOT require any special modules to be compiled into your PHP installation (like the IMAP libraries)
  (for techies: this uses basic socket connections instead of special PHP function calls)
• Admin can override certain aspects of the user config (forcing to use a given mailserver, force using forum email address and such)
• Write your mails using vB's WYSIWYG editor
• buildin (yet simple) addressbook for your E-Mail contacts
• Read/Unread markings - unread mails are highlighted, options for "mark selected read", "mark all read" and "mark selected unread"
• custom hooks to make it easy to develop addons for it
• automatically adds links to the webmailer in "Quick Links" menu, navbar and UserCP. Usualy no template edits needed when using default ones (can be disabled for each link in admin options)

Planned features:

• Support for multiple config sets per user
  (and so multiple mailbox accounts that can be querried)
• Sort mails into folders
• User configurable filters (for automatically sorting mails into folders)
• Preview of mailtext in inbox view (bellow subject)
• Forward mails as PM / Forward PMs as mail
• Reply to threads and PMs by mail
• Give/Provide your members an own eMail adress and inbox on your forums!
  • Members can recieve and send mails as "username@forumdomain.tld" without the need for an own POP3 account anywhere
  • Admin only needs ONE "real" POP3 box as "catch all".

Installation
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Level : EASY
Duration : a minute or so
Files to upload : yes (11)
Products to import : yes (1)
Templates to edit : usually none


ChangeLog
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1.00 - first final release

• Fixed some minor bugs
• Login details are no longer stored as plain text in the database (*see note bellow!)
• Added option to save login details in a cookie on the users local computer instead of storing them in the forum's database

* Note on storing the login details in the database:
The login details are only base64 encoded when stored in the database.
A more secure encryption would make no sense anyway, the login details must be decrypted to be passed to the POP3/SMTP server - one well placed line of additional code in the POP3 or SMTP class could save the decrypted info anywhere the admin likes.
This "encoding" is only meant to prevent login details to be read (in plaintext) when doing maintanance to the database and stepping over it.
For fully securing the login details the "Save in cookie" option has been added.

Known Issues:

• On some installations mass deletion of mails (via "Delete Selected" from the inbox view) does not delete all mails
• Sometimes you get "-4 mails in inbox" - reloading the page then shows the correct inbox again

Besides of those two issues, that do not really break the function of the webmailer, it seemed to run pretty stable so far - that's why I decided to release 1.00 without having them resolved.


(more changelog entries in the readme)

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This vBulletin extension is FREE! Be welcome to download and use it.
However, if you feel like supporting further development any donation is appreciated :bunny:

[landry]

Very nice....
Thanks

[fulviods]

I would like to make an italian version, i just have to translate the german version right? ;-) Then you'll add it for download.

Just let me know how to install the newlanguage version. First I have to install the wmail as a product, then the languagexml file also as a product?

Do you think it could be possible in the future version to give the possibility to the users to create an account @mydomainname.com ?? I would love to offer e-mails @mydomainname.com and was interested to find a solution. So I have to choices :
1) take this solution and maybe later this option will be add, or it will be possible to add it with this solution
2) dont use this solution and take a system that does what i need

Thanks (sorry if my english is not perfect ;-) )

[Snake]

Thanks for the update bro!

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by fulviods

I would like to make an italian version, i just have to translate the german version right? ;-) Then you'll add it for download.

Just let me know how to install the newlanguage version. First I have to install the wmail as a product, then the languagexml file also as a product?

Do you think it could be possible in the future version to give the possibility to the users to create an account @mydomainname.com ??

To translate it with the german as the base language, first import (if not already done) the vBulletin language pack for german.
Then import the "WMail_Deutsch.xml" BUT: choose "overwrite language" NOT "create new"!
This will merge the german WMail phrases into the german vB language and you can then use them to translate.

The translation can then (propper credits given) be added to the release archive



For the eMail providing.... let me quote a bit

Originally Posted by Hellcat

That feature is currently on the "ToDo" list and not yet finished - but it's the one I am currently working on, so it's the next feature to be implemeted.

Taking care that the forum doesn't use eMail addresses already configured for your domain is the responsibility of the admin himself!
Since there's no way of checking if that address already exists (except reading the mailservers config)

But I'll implement some workarounds for that, like "forbidden addresses" and "address prefix/suffix".

[fulviods]

ok thanks a lot....so just have to wait for the new version ;-)
I voted for script of the month... hope you'll do it soon :-)
I'll try to make the italian version before the end of the week

[BANDiT600]

It is my first installation of this hack and I have found it is great. I have found also some bugs or something like that, please look at screenshots.

[evesve]

Pic1:
Same for me...
Pic2:
In template: webmail_settings
Find: / vbphrase[wmail_port]:
Change to: / $vbphrase[wmail_port]:

[Hellcat]

OK, both noted. No idea what to about the first issue.... the second one is easy

[Hellcat]

:bunny: [high]A note for everyone who is already trying vBulletin 3.6 (beta 1):[/high]

As far I tested it so far this is working fine under vB 3.6!

HOWEVER:
During import you WILL get a MySQL syntax error!
IMO this is a bug in the importer script, I reported this bug and a way to fix it at the vB3.6 bugtracker (this is direkt link to the report)

Have fun!

[redlabour]

Will it work in the Future with vBulletin 3.6 ?