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

[bc3tech]

Originally Posted by Tralala

...Also, minor niggle, but on the "Edit Forum Subscriptions" page, why must "Instant Notification by Email is available for this forum!" appear in bold underneath every single (eligible) forum? Why not just have a concise description at the top, which adds "Only some forums have Instant Notification available" or instead, put an asterisk next to the eligible ones, with the "Instant Notification by Email is available for this forum" explanation at the bottom. It's cluttered and confusing the current way (IMHO)...

personally i don't agree. but the asterisk option isn't bad either.

[Cyricx]

yeah, I bolded the asterix to make it stand out more

[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

Fixed for 2.5.4

Thank you for the bug report!


Anyone experiencing this elusive 908 error, please contact me via pm with a temporary admin login. I'm unable to reproduce this bug with the correct file edits in the showpost.php and showthread.php files. But if I can reproduce it.. I can and will fix it

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Is it possible for you to PM me a temporary admin login?

PM sent. Thanks...

[Heika]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

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.

It is a fresh install.

Thanks,

Heika

[bc3tech]

would like to see this avoid sending e-mails to the poster. esp in the case where the post was made by e-mail.

[Cyricx]

Tralala, thank you! Please see a reply PM, I've narrowed down the area of occurance.

Heika, PM sent , also, what version of vbulletin are you running?

bc3tech, Completely agree! Having the user option for html/text really opened up some areas of possibility for me code wise. I want to nail this 908 bug first and then I'm planning to add two user options.

1) receive instant email notification for own posts
2) allow auto subscription for instant email notification

Both will default to yes.

[Cyricx]

I believe the 908 error is tied to imap extensions not being enabled in php.ini file. If you have your server set to not display errors, you'll then see that error.

If you are receiving the 908 error go to your admincp -> Maintence -> View PHP Info

Under the heading of "Configure Command" you should see references to with-imap

If you DO NOT see that, you MUST edit your php.ini file and enable imap_extensions.

If your UNCERTAIN HOW TO EDIT YOUR PHP.INI FILE.... contact your host! Most hosts will have no issues enabling those commands

[Cyricx]

If that isn't the issue, go to Admincp -> Scheduled Task Manager -> and click "Run Now" for Email Integration.

Watch for errors

So far the issues I've been able to review regarding 908 has been one of the above. Which is also why I haven't been able to replicate the problem heh.

Either imap not enabled, or the connection settings not right.

[Cyricx]

FINALLY!

Duplicated the 908 error..

It has to do with someone being subscribed to the thread in the email integration forum prior to email integration being turned on that causes the error when a reply is then made in that thread..

Whew... that one was nasty.

Working on a fix now!