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).

[ssabmud]

08-19-03 at 05:39 PM Erwin said this in Post #266
Unless you have a dedicated server, your host needs to recompile PHP. The white screen is a different issue. Read this thread for help with that.

Erwin, I still can't find the answer and I have read the entire thread. I would like to have this hack but if not I guess I will just uninstall it. Thanks for your help.

[Parker Clack]

Erwin:

Great hack. I am playing around with the layout some but I have found that the emails that I get are listed twice. In other words if I get an email and I go to read it the email comes up and then repeats itself in the same listing.

Any ideas?

Parker

[Ian Cunningham]

I am still getting problems with this script... I just get sent to a "cannot find server" page once I click submit... it is not a IMAP problem, as it is all set up correctly.

Is there any other way to log in? i.e running:

email.php?user=username&host=mail.domain.co.uk&pas s=1234&opt=POP3&submit=Login

Please help

[ceedee]

I get a "page not found" error too when clicking the login button.

Weird thing is, when I went to bed last night it worked, when I woke up a few hours later, it didn't work. Absolutely NOTHING changed that I have any control over.

Is anyone any closer to finding a solution (or even a cause) for this?

Cheers,

Chris

[MrNase]

thanks for this hack

IE is showing a blank page but firebird does it without a problem

[Erwin]

Sorry, but if there are problems, I cannot do much about them, since this hack is very server dependent, and I cannot debug the hack since it is possible that this hack can only work for certain servers. When it does work, it works well.

[MrNase]

yeah but why does it work with firebird and not with ie ?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by attroll

Well I guess I am one of the unlucky ones. Because I put it in my forum directory and now I get the same error as the others.
==========
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/inreview/www/email.php on line 601

Read the first post: You need PHP compiled with the IMAP module for this hack to work

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by MrNase

yeah but why does it work with firebird and not with ie ?

It works with IE for me.

[Zaeolos]

Well I still cannot get past the browser error.....I must be missing something somewhere.