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).

[vB-Host.com]

Great! Thanks for the heads up Gruntie!

[:Judge:]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/judge/public_html/forums/email.php on line 618

EDIT: I guess I do not have IMAP now maybe?

[vB-Host.com]

[QUOTE]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/judge/public_html/forums/email.php on line 618

Any idea what this may be?

The error is because your server you are hosting on does not support IMAP....

[:Judge:]

Yeah I thought that was it, I missed the one post where someone else had the same error.

Contacted server and IMAP should be good to go in about 30 mins.

Thank you for the quick reply

[vB-Host.com]

Today at 08:59 PM :Judge: said this in Post #214
Yeah I thought that was it, I missed the one post where someone else had the same error.

Contacted server and IMAP should be good to go in about 30 mins.

Thank you for the quick reply

no prob :banana:

Myself and a few customers are using it.. It is pretty cool... It's not hivemail.. but again it's free

[TMM]

Nice hack...

Sure Hivemail seems nice, but for those offering POP e-mail or planning too, this should be great!

Thanks...

[gmarik]

So is it for only one account or can I have several users for it?
Can it be interated with HiveMail, have you thought about it?

[bart]

The open-stream-error:

Ik took me some hours to figure it out, but this seems to be the solution:

$MAILSERVER="{my.server.com:143/imap/notls}INBOX";

or

$MAILSERVER="{pop.server.com:143/pop3/notls}INBOX";

$mbox = imap_open ($MAILSERVER, "username", "password");

Then, it works!!!

It happens when you use a self-signed certificate. The notls-thing tells it not to check for it.

Hope this will lead to a new version?

[Jim Mayhugh]

I run a number of qmail servers that are set up with virtual accounts. In order to access the account, you have to enter the full e-mail address, ie mymail@mymail.com as the username, as well as the server address. This causes the address in the "From:" header and a few other places to show up as mymail@mymail.com@mymail.com.

Here's how to correct that:

1) Look for:

//CHANGE SETTINGS ABOVE//

Below it add:

$email_regular_expression="^([-!#\$%&'*+./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~ ])+@([-!#\$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~ ]+\\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,4}\$";


2) Replace

if ($session_username) $errormessage .= " - ".$session_username."@".$session_server;

with


if (eregi($email_regular_expression, $session_username))
{
if ($session_username) $errormessage .= " - ".$session_username;
}
else
{
if ($session_username) $errormessage .= " - ".$session_username."@".$session_server;
}



3) For each single line occurence of
$generated=$session_username."@".$session_server;

(there are two), replace it with

if (eregi($email_regular_expression, $session_username))
{
$generated=$session_username;
}
else
{
$generated=$session_username."@".$session_server;
}


That should take care of it.

[allan grossman]

04-01-03 at 08:41 AM D|ver said this in Post #170
wow what a great hack

but i get always this error message:


does anybody know, what i can do know ?

imap is installed and configured with php

I get almost exactly the same error but on line 618:

Warning: Couldn't open stream {pointbeing.com:110/pop3}INBOX in /usr/www/bassforum/email.php on line 618

I own the mail and web server. Neither pop3 nor IMAP work. IMAP is compiled into php (Squirrelmail runs flawlessly) username, password and mail server are correct. vB version is 2.3.0

Any ideas? I just downloaded and installed this about half an hour ago so I'm pretty sure it's the current version