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).

[Erwin]

If so, what you do msimplay, is to get the settings from Outlook Express, and try it with this hack.

[limey]

how can you restrict this to certain usergroups? ie donators

[Erwin]

Today at 03:13 PM user360 said this in Post #99
is there any template thing you could make for it , Like so I could add some text link or colors or anything great hack by the way!

I purposely made this hack non-template based to make it easy to install - just upload and use. So I won't be making a template-based version.

[Erwin]

Today at 04:00 PM limey said this in Post #103
how can you restrict this to certain usergroups? ie donators

Instructions on how to do this has always been in my first post. Read it carefully.

[Smoothie]

Yesterday at 07:46 PM amykhar said this in Post #87
Fixed Erwin. Where you had if ($userfile) I had to put if ($userfile!="none")

That solved my problems. For some reason, the value of an empty userfile was coming through as none.

Amy

That fix worked for me. i just downloaded the latest file, and ($userfile) was still there. Changing it to ($userfile!="none") fixed the errors I was getting.

[Smoothie]

Yesterday at 05:47 PM Boofo said this in Post #74



Smoothie, how did you get it working?

Boofo, you get this working yet?

[Erwin]

Okay, I've updated the email.php file:

I now use this:

PHP Code:

    if (!$userfile) $userfile="none";
    if ($userfile!="none") Attach($userfile,$userfile_name); 


That would work for BOTH types of servers - those that parse the $userfile to "" and those that parse it to "none".

For those with the above problems, clear your browser cache, download and upload the new email.php file, and try it. Should work.

[Boofo]

Today at 01:05 AM Smoothie said this in Post #106
Boofo, you get this working yet?

No. Apparently my ISP doesn't have IMAP installed. They are using 4.3.1 but must not be using the IMAP. All I get are the errors. Slynderdale said something about a way around that. Can you do that Erwin?

[Slynderdale]

fsocketopen can also be used to connect to a pop3 and IMAP server but theres no predfeined mail functions like with IMAP so you have to code the parts that connect to the server, get the mail, get the folders, parse the data, display the data, and abilities like delete, new and old mail and so on, and also to close the connection.

As you can see, using fsocket is alot more work but is more compatible with servers.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

[Smoothie]

When I add an attachment to an outgoing message, with text in the message body, when it arrives, the text is not in the email, just the attachment. If I send just text, it's fine.