Major Additions - Email Integration (New threads/replies by email)

This mod is based off of the Mail Reply modification by Colin F to which I have obtained permission to rewrite and release.

This modification allows you to mimic email lists such as yahoo groups through your forums!

After installing this modification you will have new settings in your forum manager where for each forum you can enable this modification and setup a separate email address to use for each forum that you have this enabled for.

Just like how there is a separate email address for each yahoo group.

After doing so, members can subscribe to each forum that this mod is enabled for to receive notifications for new threads and replies.

Any posts in that forum, will be sent to them via email. (Example email attached below). The users can then reply to that email (which will then be processed and posted to the forums through the cron job that runs every 10 minutes), or they can send a new email to the email address and a brand new thread will be created!

Essentially mimicing an email list! Suddenly those users that hate forums, can still be dragged into the conversations and help keep the forum's activity level up!


BUGS!
These are the known bugs to date:

• Confirmed bug that email processing does not handle Japanese characters.

Unsupported Items
These are the items that are not currently supported:

• Some custom bbcode modifications will not display like they do on the forums in the html emails. Like glow, and the table mod.

TO UPGRADE

• Please see the file in the zip for upgrading!! If your upgrading from version 2.3.X you will need to reverse some file edits that are no longer nessecary!

NEW INSTALL

• See instructions in the zip file.

VERSION HISTORY!
(See the file in the zip for a complete history!)

• 2.6 Release
  • Bug Fixes
    • Joining an unmoderated public group will now auto subscribe you per the usergroup settings.
    • NO CONFLICTS with Instant Thread Subscription! See details in below post.
  • New Stuff
    • User Option Allow Auto Subscribe - This is an admin allowable, user option that let's the user choose to not be auto subscribed.
    • User Option not receive own posts - A new user option that lets them select to NOT receive their own posts via email.
    • Editted the phrase for the Auto Subscription script to tell people what to do if there are no listings.
    • Added error checks when saving a usergroup for if auto subscriptioin is entered with a forumid for a forum that does not have email integration enabled and also checks that the usergroup you are saing is entered in the forum manager as allowed to use email integration.
• 2.6.1 Release (BETA VERSION)
  • Hot Fix
    • It appears I was unseting a variable too soon. I've corrected this and it has resolved the issue with multiple posted replies on my test server.

Most of these will be slow to make it in til I know I've got the code to handle just about every type of email we could receive But in anycase, here are the ideas for future versions!

• End User Option to subscribe to just receive new thread emails, or receive all new thread & reply emails (current version does all new threads & replies).

Thanks to RedTyger, Bob Denny, Ed Kohwley and Chris McKeever for their additions and assistance with portions of this code.

Huge thanks also goes to the many individuals that have helped test various incarnations of this mod.

MAD PROPS TO: cgmckeever for a great quoting regex for the old format, and all the mods at www.4winmobile.com for helping test version 2.4 prior to release!!

You guys rock!

Please feel free to donate to my continued work on this modification!! It let's me spend more time on it!
Make a Donation!

Version 2.6 will work with both 3.6.8 and 3.7!

The #.X versions are the solid tested versions.

The #.X.X versions are the beta versions. New features and bug fixes will be worked in there and then when I have a solid version it'll be released as the next #.X

Thank you!!

~ Cyricx

[RWerksman]

Chris,

Does the 2.5.3 release address the issues with the line 908 error or the errant double replies?

Rob

[snoopy5]

Hi

Changed the field in the Forum Manager for forum['ei_usergroups'] so that it now controls not only who can reply via email. But who can receive instant notification emails. It is now titled "Please enter the usergroup IDs that can use this feature."

Will the usergroup get instant e-mailo notifications only on old threads or also on all new threads within the forum I allowed them to?

Do they need to click again on a link to get more e-mail or is this a real non-stop e-mail notification about everything what is going on in that forum?

Thanks in advance

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by RWerksman

Chris,

Does the 2.5.3 release address the issues with the line 908 error or the errant double replies?


Rob

I haven't been able to duplicate the 908 error yet. Could you send me a temporary login so I can verify your plugins?

The most common error so far as been forgetting to remove the edits to showpost.php and showthread.php

As for double replies, that's the first I've heard of that, so I'd love to check out your board to verify these bugs which I will then duplicate on my test site and fix

Originally Posted by snoopy5

Hi

Will the usergroup get instant e-mailo notifications only on old threads or also on all new threads within the forum I allowed them to?

Do they need to click again on a link to get more e-mail or is this a real non-stop e-mail notification about everything what is going on in that forum?

Thanks in advance

It will not retroactively email you on all the threads already in the forum.

It will email you from the point you subscribe to the forum going forward. All new threads and new replies in that forum, you will get an email notification.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Perhaps you haven't updated your templates.

In the newer versions I believe 3.6.8+, not completely certain which, but they added template hooks.

Check your modifyoptions template for

$template_hook[usercp_options_messaging]

The plugin looks for that and adds the template modification in to save you all from doing template edits

Ah, that explains it then... I am running 3.6.5 on this particular forum at the moment (unable to upgrade right now.)

Any chance I can get the manual template edits needed so I can put them in there myself?

Thanks!

[Cyricx]

I'm about 99% certain that if you just add in

$template_hook[usercp_options_messaging]

Right above

    $customfields[messaging]

in the modifyoptions template you should be all good to go.

That is the only template_hook I have in the code right now

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

I'm about 99% certain that if you just add in

$template_hook[usercp_options_messaging]

Right above

    $customfields[messaging]

in the modifyoptions template you should be all good to go.

That is the only template_hook I have in the code right now

Thanks, this did the trick! That preference now appears in UserCP -> Edit Options.

Now if only I can get the rest of the mod to work...



I've created two email boxes, I've enabled Email Integration for two forums, double and tripled-checked all the settings -- but it doesn't seem to be working. (I'm creating threads and emailing threads as a separate user, hoping to see them appear in the forum, or get emailed to my other email account. But nothing's happening.)

I've run the Email Integration: Forum Settings Help... but it just results in a blank page?

Wondering what I should be trying next. Happy to give you admin access to my small, private forum if you're available to give me a helping hand. Or available on AOL IM as well, if you'd prefer to chat.

Thanks for any direction you could provide.

[Tralala]

Update:

Threads/posts created on the forum itself are getting sent out, to at least one of the "subscribed" accounts. It's not going to the other, however.

The one account that is receiving notifications is actually getting two emails, formatted slightly different from each other. One from the proper address. and another from "unknown sender."



(...and I'm not sure what the -t-95 in the message title is all about.)


I have chosen the "old layout" for emails by the way, it looks less confusing for my userbase.


Also, most importanltly, new threads/replies sent via email... aren't showing up on the forum.

Any assistance appreciated.

[bc3tech]

BUG FOUND:

• Subscribe to a forum through normal route (daily / weekly)
• go to one's userCP to show subscribed threads / forums
• Collapse forum listing
• Go to Forum Subscriptions area (this mod)
• no forums will be shown, (because the table's collapsed) and you can't expand the table
• Go back to UserCP, expand forum listing, then return to forum subscriptions, and you'll see the list

[Heika]

My group is also getting the 908 posting error.

Has anyone found a solution for it?

Thanks,

Heika

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by bc3tech

BUG FOUND:

• Subscribe to a forum through normal route (daily / weekly)
• go to one's userCP to show subscribed threads / forums
• Collapse forum listing
• Go to Forum Subscriptions area (this mod)
• no forums will be shown, (because the table's collapsed) and you can't expand the table
• Go back to UserCP, expand forum listing, then return to forum subscriptions, and you'll see the list

Oh! Wow, nice find.. never noticed that I'll check this out asap!

Originally Posted by Tralala

Update:

Threads/posts created on the forum itself are getting sent out, to at least one of the "subscribed" accounts. It's not going to the other, however.

The one account that is receiving notifications is actually getting two emails, formatted slightly different from each other. One from the proper address. and another from "unknown sender."



(...and I'm not sure what the -t-95 in the message title is all about.)


I have chosen the "old layout" for emails by the way, it looks less confusing for my userbase.


Also, most importanltly, new threads/replies sent via email... aren't showing up on the forum.

Any assistance appreciated.

The t-95 is the threadid number. Nessecary for some mail browsers that prescan emails and remove/replace the message id and references lines, so we need a backup way to determine the threadid.

Is it possible for you to PM me a temporary admin login? I would guess that the second account is not getting the emails because they do not have a usergroupid that is listed in the forummanager.

The unknown sender email is extremely odd though.. I would like to see the headers on that email

Originally Posted by Heika

My group is also getting the 908 posting error.

Has anyone found a solution for it?

Thanks,

Heika

Is this a fresh install? Or upgrade?

If it's an upgrade, please verify you have removed the previous file edits from the showpost.php and showthread.php files and that you did do the file edit to the class_mail.php file.