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).

[Grunt]

wow..this now tops the list as my favorite hack

one question however..I'm not planning on using the 'Member Profile' add-on...i would however like to remove the server field, and force it to always use mail.whatever.com. do-able?

[Smoothie]

Yesterday at 08:30 PM Erwin said this in Post #127
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.

All your work is appreciated...

[attroll]

Yes this is an awesome hack. The best I have seen so far. One that has long been wanted. Thank You!

I have it working on my site with no problems now. But when I type in the user name and server and password then click Login.

It puts my footer on the top of my page and my header under the following message saying:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:25:03 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.0 mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.2.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6b X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.3 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 4981 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html

Is this something that is suppose to be displayed or is there a way I can get it to stop displaying. Everything work but this texted being displayed is annoying. It does go away after it finishes logging in.

I don't know why it is putting my header under my footer either. It does not do this all the time????

[Smoothie]

Question, would it be possible to have the extra @yourdomain stripped from the from field email if your server requires you to login with username@yourdomain? The reason being, if the newest version won't allow users to change the from field, the receiver of the email will get from: yourname@xx.com@yourname.xx.com

[Areku]

Awesome!

/me installs!

[Erwin]

Today at 02:07 PM auz1111 said this in Post #130
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

Fixed this. Download the latest email.php version 1.3

[Erwin]

Today at 12:28 PM Smoothie said this in Post #126

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

Fixed this. Download version 1.3.

[Erwin]

Update: Version 1.3 - Fixed Attachment Viewer and Downloader & Fixed Header Text Color

I've finally fixed the Attachment Viewer and Downloader... whew! Took some branstorming. Also, I've fixed up some minor cosmetic defects, with the header text colors, table widths etc.

Just download the latest email.php and upload it. Make sure you clear your browser cache - it should say Version 1.3 when you look in the PHP file.

Enjoy.

[Erwin]

Today at 05:38 PM Smoothie said this in Post #134
Question, would it be possible to have the extra @yourdomain stripped from the from field email if your server requires you to login with username@yourdomain? The reason being, if the newest version won't allow users to change the from field, the receiver of the email will get from: yourname@xx.com@yourname.xx.com

In the latest version, you can switch the ability to change the FROM field on or off at the top of the PHP file. I may or may not find the time to strip the extra domain bits - the reason is that I don't have an email account to test with, you see, so I would never know if it works or not.

[bandersen]

You do great work - I think I may need to change server... to someone that include IMAP!