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).

[jbear6]

Ahhh, the Doc is indeed a man of many hats
Installed, and working great! Could this be considered "low tech virus protection" because it is web based?

Thanks Again,
Jbear6

[msimplay]

one of the best hacks ever and also one of the easiest
i wonder if they could add a proper Outlook type pop3 email interface built into the pm system would be great to Vb3
i will post this at Vbulletin.com aswell see what they think

[cirisme]

To prevent abuse, I would like to add an IP address of the sender to the header of the email being sent. What variable do I need to make that happen?

[Boofo]

Today at 01:26 PM Smoothie said this in Post #67
after logging in to a mail server which requires username@.com, it shows this,
admin@macfora.com@macfora.com and when relpying to a message that shows in the from field.

Smoothie, how did you get it working?

[cirisme]

Ha! I just figured it out.

Sorry, I'm a Perl geek, not a PHP geek.

If you want to add it to your email system, find

if ($bcc) $head.="BCC: $bcc\n";

and add below it....

$head.="REMOTEIP: $REMOTE_ADDR\n";

I hope Erwin doesn't mind. I also did not know what the standard for IP addresses in email headers was, so I just used REMOTEIP.

BTW, great hack!

[Erwin]

Today at 07:00 AM bandersen said this in Post #69
Installed - great idea...

I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in ..../forums/upload/email.php on line 601

Update:

Just realized what Slynderdale posted as well:

To use this hack these are the requirements:

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!


If you don't have IMAP compiled, then this hack won't work, as you the IMAP function will cause an error. I apologize for this.

[Erwin]

Today at 06:02 AM Smoothie said this in Post #66
Clicking delete message gives me this;

PHP Code:

Warning: Bad message number in /home/virtual/site2/fst/var/www/html/forums/email.php on line 280 


Delete works fine for me. I can delete a single or multiple emails on the INBOX screen, or delete the email I am reading - no error messages.

You may be trying to delete a message that was already deleted - hence the bad message number error.

[Erwin]

Today at 02:51 AM amykhar said this in Post #54
Just off the top of my head, it looks like that might be because I didn't attach a file?

Doesn't happen to me.

Make sure you don't try to put a non-existent attachment in. Leave the attachment text box blank and emails are send normally. Otherwise, attachments work.

Make sure you have the latest PHP version, and IMAP is compiled.

As for making this beta - it is not beta. It works, just not for all servers.

[Erwin]

Today at 04:26 AM Oricon said this in Post #60
Does this keep the email on my server?

No, the emails remain on your mail server, not on your forum server.

[amykhar]

Today at 06:22 PM Erwin said this in Post #78



Make sure you don't try to put a non-existent attachment in. Leave the attachment text box blank and emails are send normally. Otherwise, attachments work.

Make sure you have the latest PHP version, and IMAP is compiled.

Didn't touch the attachment field at all. Put in subject "test" and message "test" and hit send.

As you can see from my phpinfo , Imap is enabled and the version is 4.1.1.

Amy