Email posts into forum

*phew*

Here it is people, the hack I use at vBulletin.org that allows you to send replies to the thread through email.
I've rewritten most of it in the last couple of days, killing bugs and making the code more readable with comments.

Installation is pretty easy, download the attaced ZIP file and read readme.txt.

This hack is provided as is and with no support whatsoever!
DO NOT email, private message or contact me through any other means about this hack. You will be ingored and receive bad jake karma! (provided graciously by jake Inc.)
Bug reports are welcome.

I hope none of you will need any support, this is not a space ship and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to install it.

[high]* FireFly waits for someone to request a screen shot... :dead:
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Enjoy!

[Crazy Pete]

Ok this hack doesn't seem to want to work for me for some reason. I edited the email_notify template, yet everytime I test it out and I get the e-mail notification sent to me, it still shows up as the default template without the additions I made to it. What's going on? I'm running 2.3.0 also.

[Crazy Pete]

Yep, I just tried it again. Replaced the whole email_notify template with just "TESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTEST" and its still sending me the default template when someone replies to a thread. ??

[Crazy Pete]

Still wondering why this isn't using my modified email_notify template. Anyone know?

[Crazy Pete]

Can someone please post an updated version of this that works with vB 2.3.0? Apparently there are a few differences in the code from 2.2.x to 2.3.0, because it doesn't want to work correctly for me.

[amp2000]

05-11-03 at 08:26 AM Crazy Pete said this in Post #61
Ok this hack doesn't seem to want to work for me for some reason. I edited the email_notify template, yet everytime I test it out and I get the e-mail notification sent to me, it still shows up as the default template without the additions I made to it. What's going on? I'm running 2.3.0 also.

What have you got working so far ? If you reply to the mail will it post the reply back into the forum it came from???
I was trying this a few days ago & was receiving the e-mail, but when I replied to the mail the reply never went into the forum

[Crazy Pete]

I never get the e-mail with the threadid or anything in it, I just get the standard notification e-mail. What changes did you make to functions.php? Maybe I didn't change the correct things?

[amp2000]

I'm still very new to vBulletin so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but do you receive the following in your notification e-mail ??

You can now reply to the thread by replying to this message. All you need to do is to make sure this code appears in the email subject:
[thread-5-]
You should also remove this text to ensure your reply is readable by other forum users.

Lemme know

I did make some changes that werent in the readme to get this far but I've a bigger problem at the moment (98% of registered users arent showing up in my members list, ahhh) so I cant tell you exactly where I made the changes till i have this problem sorted.

amp2000

[Crazy Pete]

Today at 04:13 PM amp2000 said this in Post #67
I'm still very new to vBulletin so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but do you receive the following in your notification e-mail ??

You can now reply to the thread by replying to this message. All you need to do is to make sure this code appears in the email subject:
[thread-5-]
You should also remove this text to ensure your reply is readable by other forum users.

Lemme know

Nope, I don't get that at all. I just the standard e-mail notification template without the additions from this hack.

[amp2000]

Heres what i done to my my email template so far if it helps you

Hello $touser[username],

$bbuserinfo[username] has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled -
 $threadinfo[title] - in the $foruminfo[title] forum of $bbtitle.
New at $bbtitle!
You can now reply to the thread by replying to this message. All you need to do is to 
make sure this code appears in the email subject:
[thread-$threadinfo[threadid]-$touser[field5]]
You should also remove this text to ensure your reply is readable by other forum users.

This thread is located at:
$bburl/showthread.php?threadid=$threadinfo[threadid]&goto=newpost

There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until 
you visit the board again.

Yours,
$bbtitle team

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unsubscription information:

To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit this page:
$bburl/member2.php?action=usub&threadid=$threadinfo[threadid]

To unsubscribe from ALL threads, please visit this page:
$bburl/member2.php?action=usub&type=allthread

I'm not sure but [thread-$threadinfo[threadid]-$touser[field5]] dosent look like correct syntax to me so you might want to start there (I could be wrong though)

Let me know how you get on

[Crazy Pete]

Hrm, well I think I'll have to uninstall this hack at least for now because no matter what I try and do, it's not updating my email_notify template with the new changes. Without even that working, I'm at a loss for now.