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]

Today at 06:14 AM Smoothie said this in Post #118
I have the latest email.php. It isn't any error I see, but the attachment only shows (the link). iIf text is included in the message, it doesn't show. When no attachment is included, the text in the message shows fine.

Fixed this. Mistake my part.

Updates

Version 1.1 - Fixed <td> errors. Fixed error where message did not show when attachment present.

Download and upload the latest version of email.php (make sure you clear your browser cache).

After downloading the latest email.php, make sure the top of the file says Version 1.1

[Erwin]

Today at 06:14 AM Courage said this in Post #119
I have IMAP.

My phpinfo.php say:

--with-imap-ssl=/tmp/pine4.44/imap/c-client' '--with-imap=/tmp/pine4.44/imap/c-client'

So.. why doesnt work ?

I cannot login to any pop3 server. I tried 3 or 4 accounts (pop3 and/or IMAP)

I have no explanation. As you can see, it works with the majority of servers. Some servers may not be set up properly, or this hack may interfere with another hack you've got - who knows.

[msimplay]

works excellent for me i love it Thank u extremely very much Erwin

[NuclioN]

Our provider will not install imap for what reason we don't know. I hope that the 'workaround' from slynderdale can be made for this.

[Erwin]

Important Security Update

Version 1.2

Previous versions allowed users to simply change their FROM: email address at anytime. This can create problems with users using your forums to send anonymous emails to others.

In the latest version 1.2, I have 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.

The default setting is NO (users cannot change their FROM: email addresses). The default userid exempted is 1. You can change these settings at the top of the email.php file.

Please download the latest version now, and upload it. That's all you need to do to upgrade. Make sure the top of the newest PHP file says version 1.2.

[Smoothie]

Today at 07:17 PM Erwin said this in Post #121


Fixed this. Mistake my part.

Updates

Version 1.1 - Fixed <td> errors. Fixed error where message did not show when attachment present.

Download and upload the latest version of email.php (make sure you clear your browser cache).

After downloading the latest email.php, make sure the top of the file says Version 1.1

Is working fine now, except for the attachment. The text in the message body appears, along with the attachment link. When clicking on the link, I get a blank page, with a red x thru the image. Not sure why. It is a small .gif file

[Erwin]

The attachment viewer has a strange bug that I will need to fix when I have time to do it. In the meantime, this hack works 100% - just the attachment viewer is defective... not sure why, but I'm at work now, and don't have time to fix it yet.

[auz1111]

$errormessage .= "<font color=\"{timecolor}\">";

how could i hard code the color here?

[Erwin]

All colors are based on your forum's style colors. None of the color is hard coded in my hack. Do you actually want to hardcode colors?

[auz1111]

i don't really want to, but when i look at the email headers i can't read them. I tried to change the replacement code for the forum colors but it did not work. I thought I could just hardcode it. Is it possible? thanks