vBulletin Mail System

[Lionel]

After you finish testing, let people know if it runs fine in 3.63

[dodgeboard.com]

YOU ROCK buddy!

It works with 3.6.3 just fine!!

[Lionel]

Also .. How do I change the name from "Haitiwebs Mail" showing in the title of the page and in the breadcrumbs? I don't seem to be able to find it in the settings ..

Thanks :)

That's in both vbms_functions.php and in vbms_init.php

[filburt1]

And he forgot to autoincrement messageid in " . TABLE_PREFIX . "vbms_message

You need to do it too in php admin
That was by design so attachments could be bound to messages predictably when mail is being checked.

[Lionel]

That was by design so attachments could be bound to messages predictably when mail is being checked.

That was giving an error about key exists or something. That stopped when I added auto increment

Which BTW dodgeboard I forgot to do for you.

[Slave]

Well .. it seems like the plugins for checking mail are working as I now have some log entries :) .. the problem I now have is that imap isn't installed (Doh!) .. My ISP is looking at that now :)

Thanks for the pointers towards changing the name in the title and breadcrumbs .. that's now sorted :)

A couple of small things ..

it seems like something is the wrong away round .. say my alias is "slave" and my forum account is "Slave" .. when I send out an email the received name and email address look like this ..

slave<Slave@testsite.com>

Spot the incorrect capitalisation ..

and finally .. when viewing vbms.php the breadcrumb is a bit funny .. the sitename is about 5 spaces away from the folder image, any idea why that would be? It's ok on all the other vbms pages ..

Thanks again :) .. this hack will rock once I get imap installed :bored:

[Slave]

btw .. the "You do not currently have an alias defined." warning box does not disappear the first time you enter your alias (on the change your alias page) .. perhaps like the settings in admin you have to click the enter button twice for it to disappear ..

I've not explained that very well .. try setting an alias on a user without one to see what I mean :)

[Lionel]

and finally .. when viewing vbms.php the breadcrumb is a bit funny .. the sitename is about 5 spaces away from the folder image, any idea why that would be? It's ok on all the other vbms pages ..

Thanks again :) .. this hack will rock once I get imap installed :bored:

If you have blank spaces could be that you left some blank spaces after the " in the php where you made the changes

[Lionel]

btw .. the "You do not currently have an alias defined." warning box does not disappear the first time you enter your alias (on the change your alias page) .. perhaps like the settings in admin you have to click the enter button twice for it to disappear ..

I've not explained that very well .. try setting an alias on a user without one to see what I mean :)

I know. It does disappear when you refresh the page. It is a bit annoying but non critical.

Anyway some good news on the way. A coder is about to package it into a product.

[Slave]

If you have blank spaces could be that you left some blank spaces after the " in the php where you made the changes
After looking at it again, it seems it's a problem with Safari not showing the page correctly due to the extra long page name. IE sees it fine .. :rolleyes:

One other thing I've noticed. When you try to email another forum user by just putting their forum user name in, vbms comes back with a "This user is not accepting email from other forum users" error. However I'd changed the setting of the receiving forum user to ticked for this setting in their usercp. So vbms can't be reading it right.

I've tested this with more than one user and still the same results. I wouldn't of thought imap not being installed would effect this, so it must be something else in the code.

[dodgeboard.com]

Mine is working flawlessly in 3.6.3 thanks to Lionel.

He got me all fixed up!!

Users are loving it!!

[Lionel]

One other thing I've noticed. When you try to email another forum user by just putting their forum user name in, vbms comes back with a "This user is not accepting email from other forum users" error. However I'd changed the setting of the receiving forum user to ticked for this setting in their usercp. So vbms can't be reading it right.


Unless the other user setup an alias, the email address does not exists. And it will not work by putting another username in there. That would have to be an alias, which is not necessary same as username

[Lionel]

Also alias need to be in your address book

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

Is there a way to automatically add the username > alias when a user is added to a specific group?

I'd like to have:

1) Regular Users
2) Contributing Users

I'd like contributing users to automatically get an alias = username when they get bumped into that group.

[Slave]

Also alias need to be in your address book
Really? .. hmm that's not how the v3.0 one worked ..

Oh well .. I'll give it a go and see if it works :)

[Lionel]

Really? .. hmm that's not how the v3.0 one worked ..

Oh well .. I'll give it a go and see if it works :)

There is a little note with an example of "Bob at work" in the create alias page.

[Lionel]

Is there a way to automatically add the username > alias when a user is added to a specific group?

I'd like to have:

1) Regular Users
2) Contributing Users

I'd like contributing users to automatically get an alias = username when they get bumped into that group.

and what about regular users? They don't get anything? If so, you can set that in vbms_permissions and do a quick plugin. The alias goes in table user, so that could also be inserted when updating user with new usergroup to SET alias=username

[dodgeboard.com]

You might want to let users manually set their alias. We have many users with a space in their username. This would undoubtedly cause problems.

[Lionel]

You might want to let users manually set their alias. We have many users with a space in their username. This would undoubtedly cause problems.

good point.

[GoHa]

Installed in 3.5.4, using orignial intall archive, attached to initial thread.
It works. Almost.

The only problem seembs to be that I can send emails but I cannot receive e-mails, using this system. I can see mails in cpanel webmail, but it wont go inside vbmail system.

Please adivse? Did I missed something?

[Lionel]

3.25?

[dodgeboard.com]

If you can see the emails then I assume you have already created the catchall account on your mail host.

Make sure your vbms settings matches the account used for your catchall account and that you have entered the password.

To get mine to work, I had to revert my footer template. Then I started getting my emails.

if none of that works, try changing your mailhost setting in adminc vbms settings from localhost to mail.yoursite.com and see if that fixes it

[Lionel]

Try to run this in your browser and post the results if any (replace with your values)

http://www.yoursite.com/forums/vbms_checkmail.php

[Lionel]

An important point to whoever is going to use this hack. Set @yoursite.com in the vb User Banning Options banned email list to prevent users from using their alias@yoursite.com as the primary site contact, or the script will enter into a loop trying to send notifications non stop.

[GoHa]

Sorry, I meant 3.5.4. Installed this mail system into 3.5.4 VB.

For some reason, all e-mails that I sent immediately after the instllation wont go into vbmial box. but two hours later it did, and now work every time. Sent the mail - see it in vbmail box almost immediately.

An important point to whoever is going to use this hack. Set @yoursite.com in the vb User Banning Options banned email list to prevent users from using their alias@yoursite.com as the primary site contact, or the script will enter into a loop trying to send notifications non stop.This will force ppl to have another email address. And they will less likely use your mail system. I think it will be better to prevent sending notification in case if @yoursite.com is used as a contact. Disable it for mail and for all other notifications.

Or, even better, disable server from enter into a loop trying to send notifications non stop. Have to check the code..

[Lionel]

Sorry, I meant 3.5.4. Installed this mail system into 3.5.4 VB.

For some reason, all e-mails that I sent immediately after the instllation wont go into vbmial box. but two hours later it did, and now work every time. Sent the mail - see it in vbmail box almost immediately.



a couple settings were missing from original package

1-the time interval to check email
2-the purge from server option

Also, this is based on site activity. If your site is new and don't have too much activity, the cron will not run on time.

[GoHa]

We have 14-18k uniq users daily (www.goha.ru, www.forums.goha.ru - Russian MMORPG Community portal). But for training purposes I am currently using dev forum, wich does not have visitors (except for myself).

Do we have installation package for 3.5.4 VB?
Or should I try to use 3.6.2 instllation package attached somewere in this thread?

[Lionel]

hummm, don't know what to tell you. The original zip was reported buggy.
The installation is a tiny bit different for 3.60-3.63. the phrasetype database structure is different.

[GoHa]

Ok, thanks for your help.
I'll compare the code for both versions (beyondcompare) and will figure out what to replace.

But tomorrow. Sleep time for me.

Have a good time of the day =)

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

Ok... I now a product XML file that performs all the SQL queries required to create tables/etc. On uninstall it drops tables and the extra column from the users table.

I've also added all the templates...

I seem to have a few bugs on my install... if I change the logging level it doesn't seem to take effect. Ideas?

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

error when "rebuild quota" -



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As far as default aliases... Is there a way to populate the alias column with the members' username - dropping any illegal characters and changing spaces to _ or . ??

Also ... I'd love to be able to see the alias in the AdminCP user properties.

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

Try to run this in your browser and post the results if any (replace with your values)

http://www.yoursite.com/forums/vbms_checkmail.php

Is there a reason we can't create a cron job for vbms_checkmail.php instead of using the plugins?

I just think a cron is more "standard" as to the way most hacks run. Or is there a reason its in the plugins?

[dodgeboard.com]

error when "rebuild quota" -



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As far as default aliases... Is there a way to populate the alias column with the members' username - dropping any illegal characters and changing spaces to _ or . ??

Also ... I'd love to be able to see the alias in the AdminCP user properties.


I had this problem too. Lionel corrected it by manually creating the table.

[Lionel]

change

DELETE FROM vb_vbms_attachment


to

DELETE FROM vb_vbms_attachment a

[Lionel]

Is there a reason we can't create a cron job for vbms_checkmail.php instead of using the plugins?

I just think a cron is more "standard" as to the way most hacks run. Or is there a reason its in the plugins?

the way it's setup, it is the same as a cronjob

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

I've imported all the templates and SQL queries into the product...

I've added uninstall code that removes all the tables.

I have also added the following:

ON INSTALL - the ALIAS will be populated for all users with the following in mind:

all usernames are converted to lowercase.
all characters other than a-z, 0-9, and . (period) are stripped from their username.
before an alias is added it is checked against all other aliases in the database, if the alias exists it adds a 1, 2, 3, n. to the end of the alias as required.Please have a look at this code and tell me if it can be improved - like I said I'm not a coder.



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I would rather remove this from the install and modify it into 2 plugins ... one that could be run from the admin CP (Populate Aliases! button) and one that runs as part of a new user registration (after the confirm their address).

Also, I'm not sure how to add the alias fields to the user view in the admin CP... anyone want to point me in that direction?

Oh .... I did change the product version to 2.53 because of the differences in the XML I made.

EDITED TO ASK:

Are there any other changes that need to be made to "mail enable" a user?

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

the way it's setup, it is the same as a cronjob

Bear with me... since I'm still trying to decipher much of this. But it looks like the way it is setup now requires someone to load a page after the timeout has expired to force an update.

Assuming you have a few hours of downtime when no one is surfing your forum that first person is going to get dinged with a longer wait based on the size of the email that needs to get pulled down.

Can the plugin code just be copied to a new cronjob.php file or would I need to do anything else?

[Lionel]

But it looks like the way it is setup now requires someone to load a page after the timeout has expired to force an update.


That's the way that vb cron system is setup. For all crons to work, anyone of them, a page must be loaded.

On another good note, I just learned how to make a product. Since you made one already, I'll move to my next project, which will be vbstocks, a stock market simulator using real data with points money to buy them

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

That's the way that vb cron system is setup. For all crons to work, anyone of them, a page must be loaded.

Ahhh... gotcha!


On another good note, I just learned how to make a product. Since you made one already, I'll move to my next project, which will be vbstocks, a stock market simulator using real data with points money to buy them

Haha. Lets make sure all the bugs are ironed out of this one first! :D

Should I have any options in my userCP after installing or are there manual template changes?

[Lionel]

Should I have any options in my userCP after installing or are there manual template changes?

What I did was adding them in a dropdown in navbar.
My setup is different as I splitted Quick Links and put some items in the User CP navbar link where they belong. So I would simply recommend to add a new mail link in navbar

[GoHa]

Hello,

As I Read in this thread - all cronjobs were eliminatied. But in vb admin cp , in scheduled tasks I see
vBMS: Check e-mail task scheduled to be run every minute.
And this taskis always faild with erro messaage:



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I am running VB 3.5.4 and vBMS 2.5.2p

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

But where did you get those links from? Where does manage permissions go?

Also ... in one of the templates it says "Note that TestForums members' usernames act just like aliases. If you wish to send a user called "Administrator" an e-mail, you simply need to type that username. Note that users have the option of requesting not to receive e-mails from other TestForums members via this method." and the link just goes to the user CP...

Just trying to figure out what I need to add to the userCP?

[Lionel]

Hello,

As I Read in this thread - all cronjobs were eliminatied. But in vb admin cp , in scheduled tasks I see
vBMS: Check e-mail task scheduled to be run every minute.
And this taskis always faild with erro messaage:



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I am running VB 3.5.4 and vBMS 2.5.2p

which zip did you install? Original zip or updated one?

[Lionel]

But where did you get those links from? Where does manage permissions go?

Also ... in one of the templates it says "Note that TestForums members' usernames act just like aliases. If you wish to send a user called "Administrator" an e-mail, you simply need to type that username. Note that users have the option of requesting not to receive e-mails from other TestForums members via this method." and the link just goes to the user CP...

Just trying to figure out what I need to add to the userCP?

I added those links. Manage permissions is seen only by admin

[NitroXploit]

Bug: Wrong phrasetype

Change: in vbms_alias.php



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[Lionel]

good catch NitroXploit

[NitroXploit]

Again in vbms_alias.php



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You might go ahead and change all "print_standard_error" found on vbms files to "standard_error".

[speedway]

An important point to whoever is going to use this hack. Set @yoursite.com in the vb User Banning Options banned email list to prevent users from using their alias@yoursite.com as the primary site contact, or the script will enter into a loop trying to send notifications non stop.
I was just wondering of anyone is looking into this and it would unfortunately mean I could not use it. :surprised: I am/was looking at this solution to offer to subscribers and they wanted to use it for their primary contact.

I hope someone may find a solution - I am not up to speed enough in PHP to know ahere to start looking....

Oh, forgot to say brilliant addition to VB :)

Cheers
Bruce

[Lionel]

the only solution would be to disable notifications, which is like shooting yourself in the foot.

Hivemail would do what you are looking for, but again, is very buggy, would have to fix it yourself as support is non existant.

[Killsparer]

I am/was looking at this solution to offer to subscribers and they wanted to use it for their primary contact.

Wouldn't it be quite illogical to use it as the primary contact-adress, since (as an example) the mails sent in case of a lost password would be delivered to it, too?

If someone lost his password, he would have to log in to read the "forgot your password?"-mail. But since he forgot it, he can't ... :confused:

[Slave]

Can anyone point me to a web page explaining how to install imap with php on a redhat box? My host is having difficulty with it and I'd like to point him in the right direction.

Thanks :)

(I can't believe I've come this close to have this hack working, only to be let down by my server, aahhhhhhhhhHH!!!!!!)

[Lionel]

As far as I am concerned, no one in the right frame of mind would use something like this, or like hivemail, or any other website provided mail client as their primary email solution.

This is designed to simply add another layer of privacy to your existing mail, with the flexibility to change alias whenever you want. An example to use this system, would be to setup an alias, use it for a subscription to another site. Once you start getting bombarded with spam, you just change alias. Using your real email in that case would live you vulnerable to spams.

[filburt1]

Wouldn't it be quite illogical to use it as the primary contact-adress, since (as an example) the mails sent in case of a lost password would be delivered to it, too?

If someone lost his password, he would have to log in to read the "forgot your password?"-mail. But since he forgot it, he can't ... :confused:
One of the main reasons you should never set your vBMS address to your forum e-mail address.

[dodgeboard.com]

er vica versa....



We had a couple users, after setting up their vBMS alias, go into their USERCP and change it to match. As you may already know, when you get an email at your VBMS email, it sends a notification to your Forums email to let you know. If your forums and VBMS mail are the same, it starts a cyclic buildup of emails which will eventually crash your database. Been there, done that. Since the webmaster (me) has a pop account on our domain, I entered @dodgeboard.com as a banned email in the Banning options, but selected "allow users to keep their banned IP/email", so that it would not ban the administrator. Then I just blanked out the couple users that had the @dodgeboard.com email addy in their profiles and instructed them to change it. Since @dodgeboard.com is now banned, they can't use it.

[Lionel]

Can anyone point me to a web page explaining how to install imap with php on a redhat box? My host is having difficulty with it and I'd like to point him in the right direction.


PHP needs to be recompiled with IMAP. Time to look for another host if he does not know how to do so.

[speedway]

er vica versa....



We had a couple users, after setting up their vBMS alias, go into their USERCP and change it to match. As you may already know, when you get an email at your VBMS email, it sends a notification to your Forums email to let you know. If your forums and VBMS mail are the same, it starts a cyclic buildup of emails which will eventually crash your database. Been there, done that. Since the webmaster (me) has a pop account on our domain, I entered @dodgeboard.com as a banned email in the Banning options, but selected "allow users to keep their banned IP/email", so that it would not ban the administrator. Then I just blanked out the couple users that had the @dodgeboard.com email addy in their profiles and instructed them to change it. Since @dodgeboard.com is now banned, they can't use it.
DodgeBoard/Killsparer

I see now the problem. Nice system, but not what I am looking for. I thought about Hivemail a while ago and didn't bother doing anything about it. Glad I didn't.

Anyway, I wish everyone every success with this - great script for what it does, and I mean that. I am off to find another solution, dunno where yet :D

Cheers
Bruce

[dodgeboard.com]

Hivemail was great before it died...

I don't think there is another product out there that fully integrates with vBulletin, but good luck. Let us know if you find something of interest.

[Lionel]

you could look into atmail

[speedway]

you could look into atmail
Yes, that or Scalix. Atmail is a few dollars though, but Scalix has a community edition....

Cheers
Bruce

[daloosaa]

Hi,

does this modification work with vBulletin 3.6.x (or is a version for 3.6.x available)?

Greets,
Florian

[Lionel]

Yes, that or Scalix. Atmail is a few dollars though, but Scalix has a community edition....

Cheers
Bruce

I had an atmail->vb integration laying around. Uses vb users, but atmail was on a different domain, so no conflict.

[yoyoyoyo]

I have been a user of vBulletin Mail System for a long time, and I recently redid my forums and upgraded to this version. I can send e-mail from my account just fine, but when I try replying to the e-mail received to send e-mail to my vb mail account it is returned with the following error:

Permanent Failure: 550-"The_recipient_cannot_be_verified.__Please_check_all_recipients_of_this


any ideas?

EDIT: OK- I just read through this entire thread. It seems that people have gotten this working for 3.6.3, but I don;t see anyone saying it is working for 3.5.X Has anyone gotten it working for 3.5.X, and if so can you please tell us what changes need to be made?

[FireLighter]

but I don;t see anyone saying it is working for 3.5.X Has anyone gotten it working for 3.5.X, and if so can you please tell us what changes need to be made?

I may be wrong, but from what I see in the very first thread...the original version (downloadable above) works for 3.5x. All of this work has been to get it to work with 3.6x.

-Josh

[yoyoyoyo]

I may be wrong, but from what I see in the very first thread...the original version (downloadable above) works for 3.5x. All of this work has been to get it to work with 3.6x.

-Josh
Well, actually if you read the thread you will see that it is not really working for 3.5.X - filburt posted it here so people could help with it. I installed it and I can send mail, but can't receive mail, and the same is true with many other folks. There have been some suggestions posted to this thread regarding 3.5.X implementation, but then the discussion shifted towards 3.6.X once that came out. I am still using 3.5.5 and would like to have this hack working on my forum. Any help would be appreciated.

[GoHa]

I had an atmail->vb integration laying around. Uses vb users, but atmail was on a different domain, so no conflict.

I am very interesting in vb<->atmail integration. Can you please give me details? Is that something existing? Or did you made it yourself?

[Lionel]

I am very interesting in vb<->atmail integration. Can you please give me details? Is that something existing? Or did you made it yourself?

I made it myself, was for 3.07 or lesser

[GoHa]

Is it alive? Can it be seen online?
May be you have screnshots?
I tried to do the same, but still have no good idea how to do it.

At the moment I am tring to choose between vbmail and atmail and see negative and positive aruments for both of them...

vbmail is already integrated, but is very simple, unfinished and running unsupported.

atmail is huge, is supported, but very expensive (up to $5k with all licenses) and I dont see how to integrate it (only login page can be easliy integrated).

[Lionel]

sorry, not live anymore, but I still have the server and SSH access :-)

[yoyoyoyo]

what code do I need to remove from the navbar template to make it no longer available? I disabled the uninstalled until the bugs get ironed out but the links are still in the navbar - I have tried removing what I thought was the vbms code in the navbar, but when trying to save it gives me errors - please post the code I need to remove from the navbar template to remove vbms. I looked at "view original" and compared with araxis, but the code seems to be in the original now, also. please advise.

[Lionel]

yoyoyoyo,

<templateChange template="navbar" action="append" description="Add the vBMS DHTML menu items if logged in and popups enabled">
<target><![CDATA[<!-- / header quick search form -->
</if>

<if condition="$show['member']">]]></target>

<change><![CDATA[

<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navbar_vbms_menu" style="display: none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr><td class="thead">vBulletin Mail System</td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="vbms.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[navbar_inbox]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="vbms_new.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[navbar_write_message]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="vbms_ab.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[navbar_address_book]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="vbms_folders.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[navbar_folders]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="vbms_filters.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[navbar_filters]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="vbms_options.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[navbar_options]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]faq=faq_vbms">$vbphrase[navbar_help]</a></td></tr>
</table>
</div>]]></change>
</templateChange>
</templateChanges>

[Slave]

Anyone noticed that if you delete a mail from your sent folders list using the Delete link (and not the tick boxes) it deletes all of the mails in that folder? Same sort of thing happened when I deleted a mail from my draft folder, it deleted all of my sent mail too ..

.. and if you have .. do you have a fix? thanks :)

[yoyoyoyo]

thanks lionel!

[Slave]

hmm .. finally got IMAP installed on the server \o/ ..

However, I now get the following

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Any ideas whats wrong?

[Slave]

hmm .. finally got IMAP installed on the server \o/ ..

However, I now get the following

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.. when looking at the log file ..

Any ideas whats wrong?
After playing with my imap_open statement, I finally got this working .. \o/

[Slave]

Anyone noticed that if you delete a mail from your sent folders list using the Delete link (and not the tick boxes) it deletes all of the mails in that folder? Same sort of thing happened when I deleted a mail from my draft folder, it deleted all of my sent mail too ..

.. and if you have .. do you have a fix? thanks :)

Within vbms_functions_api.php

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That seems to fix the problem I think :)

Let me know if I've changed something I shouldn't ;)

[Slave]

it seems like something is the wrong away round .. say my alias is "slave" and my forum account is "Slave" .. when I send out an email the received name and email address look like this ..

slave<Slave@testsite.com>

Spot the incorrect capitalisation ..
This can be fixed by ..

Opening vbms_class_mail_message.php

Find ..

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[Slave]

Am I right in thinking that the notification email is missing something? At the moment it just sends out a blank email ..

How would I go about putting something in the body of the email?

[Lionel]

Am I right in thinking that the notification email is missing something? At the moment it just sends out a blank email ..



I haven't got that problem

[filburt1]

An older version had a problem of a blank notification e-mail (a combination of a missing template and arguments for a method out of order), but I thought it's fixed in this version.

[dodgeboard.com]

Am I right in thinking that the notification email is missing something? At the moment it just sends out a blank email ..

How would I go about putting something in the body of the email?

Yeah, mine does the same thing. The forums sends out a blank email with the subject "You have new email" but nothing in the body. I just thought that was normal.

[Lionel]

see if you have this phrase (must be global)
new_message_email_notification

with this content

Hello {1} ({2}@{3}),
You have received a new e-mail message at {4} from {5} with the subject "{6}." You may have received more messages as well.
* To read this specific message, please visit: {7}.
* To view all of your e-mail messages, please visit: {8}.
* To stop receiving this notification message when you receive new e-mails, please edit your e-mail options by visiting: {9}.
Yours,
The {4} team

[Lionel]

and a vBMS phrasetype for the subject line

new_message_email

New e-mail message at {1}

[dodgeboard.com]

and a vBMS phrasetype for the subject line

I have the VBMS phrase, but not the global phrase. I added the new_message_email_notification phrase and am testing it now.

EDIT: Yep, that fixed it!!

Thanks Lionel

[Slave]

Yep, I too had the missing global phrase .. ta :)

[Slave]

btw .. When vbms handles attachments does it use the settings in the Attachment Manager within vB? .. the reason I ask is I've noticed emails coming in which should have .jpg attachments of 1/2 meg in size missing the attachment. It seems vbms is either striping the attachment or can't cope with the size of the attachment.

Any ideas why that might be happening?

An example; I sent myself an email with a 1MB jpg file attached. I got the email but with no attachment. vbms then seemed to go into a loop as i got a new copy of the email everytime i refreshed the page. It was only once I'd changed my alias to something else that it stopped appearing in vbms.

[Lionel]

vBMS Permissions->Attachment settings->Meg per message

[Slave]

Well .. this is using my admin account, so shouldn't have a meg per message limit should I? and I don't have the ability to change this setting for admin anyway. On the one usergroup I do have on at the moment the meg per message is set at 5MB, so a 1/2MB or 1MB attachment should get through.

[Killsparer]

Since there have been found quite some bugs again, it would be really great to see an updated version of the script.

Or perhaps even an entire new topic in the department for 3.6 addons?

[Lionel]

vbms then seemed to go into a loop as i got a new copy of the email everytime i refreshed the page. It was only once I'd changed my alias to something else that it stopped appearing in vbms.

I don't have those issues

[dodgeboard.com]

I am still having the HTML issue - doesn't properly send HTML like smilies, just shows the URL.

Lionel, didn't you find a fix for this?

[filburt1]

I am still having the HTML issue - doesn't properly send HTML like smilies, just shows the URL.

Lionel, didn't you find a fix for this?
It should send them as image tags, and the mail client should download them. However, most, rightly so, do not download them for security reasons.

The ideal solution is to embed the necessary emoticons as attachments referenced within the HTML, which is technically possible, just never implemented in vBMS.

[Lionel]

I am still having the HTML issue - doesn't properly send HTML like smilies, just shows the URL.

Lionel, didn't you find a fix for this?

you need to use the enhanced editor.

[dodgeboard.com]

O I C!!

Thanks Lionel!

[Killsparer]

Again, would someone be so kind to create a neat package with all the recent bugfixes and changes?

It would be much appreciated!

Edit: Is anyone still using this addon anyway?

[chick]

I'd love to use it/try it out if these are updated files????

[Lionel]

Edit: Is anyone still using this addon anyway?

I am, without any problems.

[Killsparer]

I am, without any problems.

Doesn't count, since you did all the changes... ;)

I tried to add all the changes myself, but gave up after the 1000th bugfix-posting and due to my lack of vbulletin-coding knowledge. And i don't believe i am the only one here.

[AyeCapn]

I just installed it and am making the changes one at a time from Lionel's post of the 3.6.0 final files

some bugs here and there, but there is hope.

[Discussions]

I agree, this webmail system is dead unless someone actually takes the time to release a fixed version. Permission has been given, which is why it was released to the community.

[chrisbr]

id be interested to actually see this packaged up proplerly with a working installer

[Brent H]

If I knew how to package it I would... Lionel or someone knowledgeable, can you help us out?

[TheHeartSmasher]

So does this work and will it be available for 3.6.0

[wrmoss]

I'd be willing to pay someone several thousand dollars to get this working (robustly) in vbulletin 3.6.x... This kind of feature would generate so much website traffic, it's worth thousands of dollars. I'm very serious, so please PM me or reply to this thread if this is a possibility...

Will

[blueuniverse]

Whilst I agree it is an essential, I know it is for my board, the terms at the beginning stated the following.

You cannot:

* Advertise any of your modifications that you may be selling at vBulletin.org.
* Use vBMS for any illegal purposes, including use vBMS on a forum without an active vBulletin license.
* Modify vBMS to do whatever you like, and then claim the entire product as your own.
* Remove mentions of vBMS, the "vBulletin Mail System", or other branding, and replace them with others that imply you exclusively developed the product.
* Sell any components of vBMS that the product originally contained or others have freely developed.
* Sell the product as a whole, including a modified product.

[wrmoss]

Whilst I agree it is an essential, I know it is for my board, the terms at the beginning stated the following.

This would not be to buy the software it would be to pay for someones man hours to improve the existing vbms software (and the rest of the community can benefit from it)... It appears that the reason that this software never got ported was because nobody has time to do it. So I'll pay somebody to do it and the rest of the world can benefit from it. If this is done right it would be crazy hot for all of us...

Let's do it come on!

[iChambers]

Well I will look at the code next month see if we can improve it otherwise I would just rewrite the entire code with allot more features such as calendar, task and make it more like a mail program itself similar to Horde Webmail but with vB Intergrations. But at this time I do not have the time but should have some time next year to do it starting in Jan - but I would need a group of beta testers to test it and provide feedback!

I would like to get the input of everyone who wants this done so I will be holding an open discussion on it on Jan 2, 2007 if anyone is interested on how to access this PM me - for the discussion will proabbly occur on a Skypecast but PM for best time in EST or let us know your timezone - so we can set the best time for it. We will discuss where this project is now as well as things that should be added to it - known bugs and what not so I get a better understanding what I am going to put myself and staff through.

[Snake]

Any idea if this is gonna work on 3.6.4?

[dodgeboard.com]

Works on mine- I have 3.6.4 (3.6.3 w/patch)

[blueuniverse]

Any updates with the packaged for 3.6 build?

[jhaegele]

Just a bump to show there is interest in this for v3.6 - if resources are needed, please PM me - I'll see what I can provide ;)

[wrmoss]

i'll second that... EXTREME interest. If we don't see some movement in a few weeks, I might just roll up my sleeves. For websites that make revenue on selling impressions (CPM) this mod is worth thousands in ad revenue from repeat visitors.

[COBRAws]

11 months, and filburt1 never bothered attaching a new version FIXED BY vb.org MEMBERS.

[wrmoss]

11 months, and filburt1 never bothered attaching a new version FIXED BY vb.org MEMBERS.

Can someone post the new version?

[Brent H]

I said this before, but it bears repeating:
Slap this up on SourceForge or Google Code and let's get some REAL development here... I'm tired of having the original poster tell us he's working on things or that he'll update it whenever.

If this was truly open source (as the author claims it to be) it should follow the rules of the General Public License... Not the Filburt1 License . It seems that for all intents and purposes, we're on our own.

I'm going to look in to what it takes to create a SourceForge or Google Code setup; perhaps someone who knows a thing or two about it could beat me to the punch?

[Xoligy]

If you give me a list of all known bugs I shall do my best to fix them.

Something can still be 'open-source' without being GNU. There's nothing wrong with him using his own license, although his license is pretty much the same as the GNU. His license says users can distribute the modified code, they just can't sell it.

[Phrost]

As someone who bought the original version of this over a year ago, I'd love to see anyone get it stable for 3.5.

[Xoligy]

Most people are likely to upgrade it to 3.6 than 3.5

[Phrost]

I saw that. :)

[kellyandmike]

Lots of interest on my part. I just stumbled across this and am still running 3.5.4. Will it work with that one or do I have to edit templates myself? (Which I am not good at)...

[Sooner95]

3.5 here as well. Like to add this to my site, but it appears there are to many issues atm .

[Phrost]

You know, I bet if everyone like us chipped in $10 we could entice a professional developer to fix this.

$10 here.

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

I'll pitch in $50... there should also be a product XML I uploaded in the thread that creates takes care of the SQL changes and phrases... that should help whoever wants to clean up the bugs and package the whole thing.

Frankly its mostly done from what I can tell... its just a lot of the fixes are posted in this thread instead of being included into the package/installer.

FWIW if we're paying there's 1 feature I would desperately like added and that is the ability for admins to set a different POP username/password through the ACP user interface from some users...

That way I could configure my admins and mods with real pop accounts (that they can also access using outlook/etc.) and let the regular members default to using the catchall only...

[Xoligy]

I'm already working on it, but only in my spare time so don't expect anything soon. I've just about fixed the installer.

[wrmoss]

i'd donate $999.99... or more...

[Snake]

Yeah and I'd be happy to donate $100 if someone can port this to v3.6 and fix all the bugs. :)

[noreturn]

11 months, and filburt1 never bothered attaching a new version FIXED BY vb.org MEMBERS.

This is just my own speculation (and guess) as some one that had paid him, waited forever, and then received a refund when it was posted over here. Some people did not get refunds.

It seems that coders are working on 3.6.x (which is certainly understandable) but my guess is that filburt1 sold this to many people as a product for 3.5.4 and his posting it here was to FIRST get a working attached product for the people that had paid him, (have no refund or product) and then the second issue would be moving it to a working and attached version for 3.6.x
So from his perspective he may feel that he should have an attached working 3.5.4 for those who have not received refunds.

[filburt1]

My perspective is this: the first version that somebody compiles and that others agree is suitable for distribution is the one that I'll attach to this thread. That doesn't leave much reading-into or ambiguation.

You guys shouldn't be spending money on this project; that's the entire point of the open-sourcing. I've already explained my reasoning in the first post in extensive detail, and there's literally nothing else I can say about it, because I've already said everything. If you want to go on speculating, be my guest, but your speculation will always be wrong if it's not outlined in the first post.

I'd think by page 8 we could have moved past breaucratic issues and focused on, you know, the implementation.

[noreturn]

My perspective is this: the first version that somebody compiles and that others agree is suitable for distribution is the one that I'll attach to this thread. That doesn't leave much reading-into or ambiguation.

Nope, no conjecture left there.
Is ambiguation a word ? :)

[Lionel]

with 50 installs one would think that hack is working. It is at least for me.

[Phrost]

Nope, no conjecture left there.
Is ambiguation a word ? :)

You must not visit Wikipedia much. :D

Anyway, we know about the nature of open source. Idealistic communal development principles aside, many of us just want this working and released as of a year ago and are willing to pay extra to make it happen.

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

with 50 installs one would think that hack is working. It is at least for me.

True... but the problem is there is no package - and no real support.

If everything were packaged up and there was someone willing to support it I'd be more inclined to install it into a 1500 user forum... as it stands I'm not sure if I am willing to do that.

[Lionel]

I thought you packaged it? (it was not you?). I am using it in a 12000 members forum. I could try to package my install, but I am in no way in the mood to start answering questions from newbies, like how to import an XML etc.... I think that there is a minimum of php/templates/database knowledge involved.

[COBRAws]

I said this before, but it bears repeating:
Slap this up on SourceForge or Google Code and let's get some REAL development here... I'm tired of having the original poster tell us he's working on things or that he'll update it whenever.

If this was truly open source (as the author claims it to be) it should follow the rules of the General Public License... Not the Filburt1 License . It seems that for all intents and purposes, we're on our own.

I'm going to look in to what it takes to create a SourceForge or Google Code setup; perhaps someone who knows a thing or two about it could beat me to the punch?
True, this way this project is dead, and my (and other's) money lost.

I should start a website where you can search for coders who dont do their job after paying. I have plenty. All of them found here at vb.org. Weird huh?

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

I thought you packaged it? (it was not you?). I am using it in a 12000 members forum. I could try to package my install, but I am in no way in the mood to start answering questions from newbies, like how to import an XML etc.... I think that there is a minimum of php/templates/database knowledge involved.

I did throw together a quick XML file to take care of the DB changes.

No one has really packaged together a .zip with the xml, php files with all the fixes, etc.

Right now the "install" consists of combing through this thread to find all the "change this" and "change that" posts to make changes...

[Discussions]

Could we at least have all the required fixes updated in the main post? That would make easier to get this updated and a new version sent out.

[Parker Clack]

I agree. It would be nice to have all the corrections that have written put together along with the original files so we could use it. I know it has been worked on for 3.6 but I would like to see something done for 3.5.4 1st.

Thanks,
Parker

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

I agree. It would be nice to have all the corrections that have written put together along with the original files so we could use it. I know it has been worked on for 3.6 but I would like to see something done for 3.5.4 1st.

Thanks,
Parker

To be honest I don't really see much of a reason to develop something for an out of date version of vb... YMMV.

[wrmoss]

To be honest I don't really see much of a reason to develop something for an out of date version of vb... YMMV.

Yea I'd think it would be easier to upgrade vbulletin rather than find/fix/install depricated plug-ins. plus version 3.6 is hot :D

[Eric]

I agree. It would be nice to have all the corrections that have written put together along with the original files so we could use it. I know it has been worked on for 3.6 but I would like to see something done for 3.5.4 1st.

Thanks,
Parker

I've been working on cleaning up the code, as well as incorporating fixes posted here. I'm doing this in my spare time (the very little I have); so don't expect it soon soon (and it will be for 3.6)

~SecondV

[filburt1]

I thought you packaged it? (it was not you?). I am using it in a 12000 members forum. I could try to package my install, but I am in no way in the mood to start answering questions from newbies, like how to import an XML etc.... I think that there is a minimum of php/templates/database knowledge involved.
Don't worry about that at all; you wouldn't be responsible for it. As with many (not all) open-source projects, the entire team overall is responsible to an extent, not merely individuals within it.

Anybody who wants can feel free to post their compiled version should do so. If others say it works for them, then the AUTHOR OF THE MODIFICATION ONLY, NOBODY ELSE should send me a private message and I'll add it to the first post.

Or another moderator can do it as well if they feel it's appropriate.

[Phrost]

Jeez, this is like herding cats. For all the "hey, works for me/etc" posts on here we could have had a working modification available to the general public a long time ago.

Will someone just step up and be a vBulletin hero here?

[Rickeo]

I have a problem when I click the link to install I get this error message:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT phrasetypeid, title, product
FROM phrasetype
WHERE phrasetypeid IN (500);

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasetypeid' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Saturday, February 3rd 2007 @ 06:07:21 PM
Script : http://www.adviceforall.org/forum/admincp/vbms_install.php
Referrer :
IP Address : 195.93.21.101
Username : Rick
Classname : vB_Database

Can someone tell me how to resolve this

Thanks

~Rick~

[Phrost]

So no progress on this?

I've got a shiny new $20 bill (via PayPal) for a working, packaged version of this...

[Killsparer]

I've been working on cleaning up the code, as well as incorporating fixes posted here. I'm doing this in my spare time (the very little I have); so don't expect it soon soon (and it will be for 3.6)

I'm already working on it, but only in my spare time so don't expect anything soon. I've just about fixed the installer.

Well I will look at the code next month see if we can improve it otherwise I would just rewrite the entire code with allot more features such as calendar, task and make it more like a mail program itself similar to Horde Webmail but with vB Intergrations.

Well, gentlemen, any news? :p

[dodgeboard.com]

I had mine working in 3.6.3 (I thought) for quite awhile with some flakiness from time to time. Recently, my host, hostgator pulled the plug on my domains. Found out when I called them that the vbms scripts had gotten stuck in a loop and were saturating the server. I finally ended up pulling the plug on this software- not worth the headaches it was causing and wasn't worht the site going down again.

[Krofh]

I know a few other people have said they're working on it, but since it doesn't seem to be moving, I'm taking some serious time to get this fixed, both for my site and others. Will update y'all once it's done.

Edit, dec 28th: I think I've got it mostly working again, except for receiving attachments. Hoping to be done by the end of the weekend.

[PoetJA-1975]

I know a few other people have said they're working on it, but since it doesn't seem to be moving, I'm taking some serious time to get this fixed, both for my site and others. Will update y'all once it's done.

Sounds promising! Thanx & I'm sure a lot will be in anticipation!

Jacquii.

[GoHa]

Sounds promising! Thanx & I'm sure a lot will be in anticipation!

Jacquii.+1!
Waiting for someone, who will come and make this job.

lazy me =)

[blueuniverse]

3.6 Fixed Version up here - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1193477

[dukemarex]

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT phrasetypeid, title, product
FROM vb3_phrasetype
WHERE phrasetypeid IN (500);

MySQL-Fehler : Unbekanntes Tabellenfeld 'phrasetypeid' in field list
Fehler-Nr. : 1054
Datum : Thursday, March 15th 2007 @ 12:34:50 PM
Skript :xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwwa/admincp/vbms_install.php
Referrer : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxwwa/admincp/vbms_install.php
IP-Adresse : xxxxxxxx
Benutzername : dukemarex
Klassenname : vb_database
:confused:

[Eagle Creek]

Are there decent screenshots? The ones on the site are too small.

[87accordlxi]

got the filters and the options to work.

i did the same thing with the options by adding a hidden input in the templates and doing a


else if ($_REQUEST['do']=='addoptions')

This does not seem too complicated to fix.




Lionel, can you explain in greater depth how to fix the issue with the options page? My options page isn't saving any selections either.

[Lionel]

Lionel, can you explain in greater depth how to fix the issue with the options page? My options page isn't saving any selections either.

here you go

[87accordlxi]

Thanks!


Is there a way for admins to delete accounts from the email system?

[sv1cec]

IS there any place one can download the last working version of this program for vBulletin 3.0.xx?

I would like to try it out, even if it is buggy but I can't find it. If anyone has it, I would appreciate it very much.

[carmichael1973]

Yet another dead thread! Too bad nice addon!

[Nutz]

Yea, shame to see this die :(

Thanks,
Mat.

[basketmen]

hi filburt1, i have to ask this to the author


in Sent message page we can't see To: who the email had send






code for sender From: is $message[receivename]


what is code for To: ???


i had try this code but not working
$message[receivename]
$message[toname]
$to





i will add that code below From: table in READ template

[basketmen]

hi filburt1, i have to ask this to the author


in Sent message page we can't see To: who the email had send






code for sender From: is $message[receivename]


what is code for To: ???


i had try this code but not working
$message[receivename]
$message[toname]
$to





i will add that code below From: table in READ template
up ahh

[SwollenCranium]

Since my original thread was RUDELY locked I have to ask here ...

Yes, I read this thread and understand it.

However, I ask mainly because of the following statement in the thread:


Originally Posted by filbirt1

I want vBMS to be available for all current versions of vBulletin so those who paid good money do not feel cheated.

I'd like to see a version of VBMS available and integrated in the purchased product. My "unlimited mail " server is going unused.

What is a reasonable alternative to this product ?

[John3971]

i would love to have this modification or a similar one to vb 3.7

[snunhuck]

Anyone tried this on 3.7?

[silly rabbit]

Anyone tried this on 3.7?
Yes, my copy is working on Version 3.7.2 with minor issues lke poor HTML conversion to BBCode with HTML not displayed properly even if set. An "iframe" is mentioned but I do not see it. Also, stock user "options" were not saving but there is a post/attachment here that fixes it

With all mail forwarded to one spot "Notification" I use it every day, see thread HERE (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=140828)

Rabbit

[d0zer]

thanks