Download PM in mbox Format

Download PM in mbox Format
This Hack allows you to download your PMs in mbox Format.
mbox is a native UN*X mail format and can be read by many eMail-Clients.

It was requested by one of my members some time ago, and as I had to port it for vB 3.5 anyway in preparation for the Update, I thought it might be useful for others too, so here you are.

Details
2 Phrases
1 Plugin XML

There is not much to see, but as I know you guys always want screenshots - even those are there

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall whan you don't use it any longer!

[Oblivion Knight]

Typo in the readme..

FIND
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<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=downloadpm&amp;dowhat=mbox">$vbphrase[mbox]</a>
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Should be:

FIND
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<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=downloadpm&amp;dowhat=txt">$vbphrase[text]</a>
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I'm sure a couple of my users will be glad of this, thanks for sharing..

[Andreas]

Oops!
Fixed.

Should update this to a Product XML ...

[Oblivion Knight]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Should update this to a Product XML ...

I did this since I'm working on my test board anyway..

[Xeonext]

This hack might help me to import private messages of users to the email service

[aciurczak]

Worked like a charm, thx!

I use Eudora, so need to do one more conversion from MBOX --> eudora .mbx files. I attached a small utility that I found that does just that.

[Tralala]

Seems to be working great, users are able to easily download their PM's and import into their email client of choice. Thanks! :up:

The resulting emails often look weird, though. Any way to incorporate strip_bbcode or preg_replace? Maybe just to strip out certain tags, like [IMG] (as that screws up the clickable links,) or [b] or [i] since they don't work well in an email client?

I'd leave [quote] around, or better yet convert quoted lines to:
>something like this
...since that (as well as [post] are necessary to communicate context.)

Other than that though, any way to somehow clean up the messages for their journey from vB to an email client would be greatly appreciated.

[mclark2112]

Is there a 3.6 version of this?

[aciurczak]

Existing version still works fine in 3.6.4 for me...

[yoyoyoyo]

I can't seem to find the private_messagelist template anywhere. Do you really mean pm_messagelist?