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

[rconn]

Originally Posted by rconn

I had everything working for several months, then upgraded to vBulletin 3.7.3. Now the posts sent via email aren't appearing in the forum. (They are in the account inboxes, but they're apparently not being picked up.)

I doublechecked everything I could find but don't see any reason why the messages aren't being forwarded. Anybody have an idea what's going on?

Thanks.

Rex Conn

I resolved this problem by applying the fix in #839.

I still have one remaining problem after the update -- the emails sent from the forum all have the forum name in the "From" field instead of the user name (as they had previously). I've been poking through the options but haven't found the one that controls that setting.

Rex Conn

[toivo]

Hi Rex,

You can control it from:

AdminCP - vBulletin Options - Email Integration Settings - Use Single From Address.

I have that option selected, but if you turn it off, I assume it does what you want.

Regards,
Toivo

[rconn]

Originally Posted by toivo

Hi Rex,

You can control it from:

AdminCP - vBulletin Options - Email Integration Settings - Use Single From Address.

I have that option selected, but if you turn it off, I assume it does what you want.

Regards,
Toivo

I already have that option turned off. If I turn it on, I get an empty field for the Sender.

Rex

[TBrewerton]

Hi there,

Ive tried installing the mod.

I can get messages to be sent to Inbox but when replying i get the following error

"Email Integration

Imap not recognized!! You MUST enable IMAP extensions on your server in your php.ini file!

Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /home/upload/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 52"

You say to make sure IMAP is turned on in php.ini yet i dont have dirrect access, if i know the command to turn it on my host has said i can place the command in a file named php.ini and it will turn the option on, can anyone help me with code to do this as i have no idea.

Im running on a linux server.

Kindest Regards,

Tim

[toivo]

Originally Posted by TBrewerton

Hi there,

Ive tried installing the mod.

I can get messages to be sent to Inbox but when replying i get the following error

"Email Integration

Imap not recognized!! You MUST enable IMAP extensions on your server in your php.ini file!

Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /home/upload/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 52"

You say to make sure IMAP is turned on in php.ini yet i dont have dirrect access, if i know the command to turn it on my host has said i can place the command in a file named php.ini and it will turn the option on, can anyone help me with code to do this as i have no idea.

Im running on a linux server.

Kindest Regards,

Tim

Hi,

That is odd because according to the manual at http://php.net/manual/en/imap.installation.php, only Windows users can add the extension to php.ini. Otherwise PHP needs to have been compiled with the option --with-imap.

Regards,

[lbernstein]

I'm currently on version 2.3.1 and looking to upgrade to the latest version (2.6.1). Do I need to actually upgrade to version 2.4, then to 2.5 and then the latest version? If so, where do I find the older versions?

Thanks,
LB

[mvanlare]

Same issue as txspaderz. I am trying to import messages from a mailbox and don't care who the From address is. Can we circumvent the Invalid Email when running the scheduled task to post to a forum with no restrictions on membership?

[mvanlare]

Would it also be possible to automatically merge threads with same title? The way it is set up, each new email shows as a new thread. Is there any way to lump threads together if they have the same title?

For example, a round of emails go about with the subject RE: Help please! - instead of 17 emails turning into 17 threads, I would like them to show as one thread.

I know there is a merge function, but I would prefer not to have to manage this on a daily basis.

Thanks for the add-on! Good stuff!

[JohnNM]

Hi Chris,

It has been a while since I installed this excellent mod. Thanks for your earlier help to get some of the minor wrinkles worked out. I have a strange problem that I could use your help with.

I have several hundred users on my forum now. Out of these users, as near as I can tell, only two of us are receiving duplicate emails from every forum post. When you go into the UserCP -> EditOptions -> Format For Email Integration and change from Text to HTML, you then get one email in text and the other in HTML. This is about the only clue I have to go on right now.

The only other information I can think to give you is that I am running 3.68 Patch 2 (yes, I know I need to upgrade - not enough cycles in the day yet), and that one of the users is a RegisteredUser, and I am an Administrator. Any help you might give would be very appreciated.

Brad

[JohnNM]

Hi Chris

One more thing. I would like to upgrade both vBulletin and Email Integration. Should I upgrade one before the other?

Brad