Board Optimization - vMail Converter - Send out your emails in different encoding

By Syrian Medical Society & Milad

Introduction:
In order to solve the problem with unicode (UTF-8) in some Email Service Providers (such as Hotmail, Yahoo and many others), I created this product.
It converts the sent out messages only, from your real encoding into an encoding of choice, both encodings, the source & destination must be supported by iconv.
You may know, I had converted to UTF-8 and faced this problem, now it's solved.

Caution:
This product is provided As Is without warranties.

Requirements:

• vBulletin 3.6.4+
• iconv PHP extension is installed on your system, or your PHP version is 5 and above.

Supported Encodings:
See http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#introduction

Installation or Upgrading:

1. Import the product file product-vmail_converter.xml (Choose Yes when Upgrade).
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> Email Options -> vMail Converter - Destination Encoding.
3. Set your Destination Encoding and save (For me, It's windows-1256).
4. In /includes/class_mail.php Replace every
   
   PHP Code:

   $stylevar['charset'] 

   WITH
   
   PHP Code:

   $this->get_charset() 

5. In /includes/class_mail.php Find
   
   PHP Code:

       function start($toemail, $subject, $message, $from = '', $uheaders = '', $username = '')
    { 

   Add after:
   
   
   PHP Code:

           // vMail Converter START
        $subject = $this->vmail_convert($subject);
        $message = $this->vmail_convert($message);
        // vMail Converter END 

6. In /includes/class_mail.php Find again
   
   PHP Code:

       function start($toemail, $subject, $message, $from = '', $uheaders = '', $username = '')
    { 

   Add before:
   
   PHP Code:

       // vMail Converter START
    function vmail_convert($item)
    {
        global $stylevar;
        
        if (function_exists('iconv') AND $item != '')
        {
            return @iconv($stylevar['charset'], $this->registry->options['vmail_converter_destination'], $item);
        }
        else
        {
            return $item;
        }
    }
    
    function get_charset()
    {
        global $stylevar;
        
        if (function_exists('iconv'))
        {
            return $this->registry->options['vmail_converter_destination'];
        }
        else
        {
            return $stylevar['charset'];
        }
    }
    // vMail Converter END 

7. In /includes/class_mail.php Find twice
   
   PHP Code:

               $mailfromname = $this->encode_email_header(unhtmlspecialchars($mailfromname, $unicode_decode), $encoding); 

   Add before
   
   PHP Code:

               // vMail Converter START
            $mailfromname = $this->vmail_convert($mailfromname);
            // vMail Converter END 

8. In /includes/class_mail.php Find
   
   PHP Code:

   $fromemail = $from; 

   Add before
   
   PHP Code:

               // vMail Converter START
            $from = $this->vmail_convert($from);
            // vMail Converter END 

   Save and upload the file again.
9. You're done.

Known issues:

• none.

Versions:

• 1.0.0 (initial release). (5. April 2007)
• 1.1.0 (10. April 2007)
• 1.1.1 (11. April 2007) fix a bug
• 1.2.0 (17. May 2007) Very good version, every bug fixed.

Support is given for who clicks "install" only.
Mark it as "Installed" to receive updates and support.

[matrex722]

$fromemail = $from;

this is not in v 3.8.5