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Email Integration (New threads/replies by email)
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This mod is based off of the Mail Reply modification by Colin F to which I have obtained permission to rewrite and release. This modification allows you to mimic email lists such as yahoo groups through your forums! After installing this modification you will have new settings in your forum manager where for each forum you can enable this modification and setup a separate email address to use for each forum that you have this enabled for. Just like how there is a separate email address for each yahoo group. After doing so, members can subscribe to each forum that this mod is enabled for to receive notifications for new threads and replies. Any posts in that forum, will be sent to them via email. (Example email attached below). The users can then reply to that email (which will then be processed and posted to the forums through the cron job that runs every 10 minutes), or they can send a new email to the email address and a brand new thread will be created! Essentially mimicing an email list! Suddenly those users that hate forums, can still be dragged into the conversations and help keep the forum's activity level up! BUGS! These are the known bugs to date:
These are the items that are not currently supported:
(See the file in the zip for a complete history!)
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Huge thanks also goes to the many individuals that have helped test various incarnations of this mod. MAD PROPS TO: cgmckeever for a great quoting regex for the old format, and all the mods at www.4winmobile.com for helping test version 2.4 prior to release!! You guys rock! Please feel free to donate to my continued work on this modification!! It let's me spend more time on it! ![]() Make a Donation! Version 2.6 will work with both 3.6.8 and 3.7! The #.X versions are the solid tested versions. The #.X.X versions are the beta versions. New features and bug fixes will be worked in there and then when I have a solid version it'll be released as the next #.X ![]() Thank you!! ~ Cyricx Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Supporters / CoAuthors Screenshots Show Your Support
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Major Additions Email Integration (New Threads/Replies by and through email!) | Cyricx | vBulletin 3.7 Add-ons | 357 | 24 Jun 2014 20:05 |
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Cyricx has been good about incorporating all the bug fixes reported in this thread into his next releases. I don't have a clue when he might make another release of this mod, though his last post said that he was going to replace the mimedecode.php message parsing with something more robust; i.e., a major change. I'm relying on this mod on my board and have so far not had any problems. I'd definitely like to help make this mod as solid and stable as possible. A major failure of this mod would be devastating to my board. It would be useful to put together a list of open bugs unrelated to the mimedecode attachment parsing for Cyricx to fix in his next release. I'll start it here. Please post any issues you're having with this mod so that they can be addressed. Note that "fixed" below only means that a workaround is known that seems to resolve the problem. There may be a better fix to the problem but this workaround is sufficient for now.
2.6.1beta issue #1: Email notification for a new thread contains a blank name for the poster status: fixed see post #760 in this thread from Ron Wilhelm 2.6.1beta issue #2: Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in [forumdir]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 1093 status: unknown When this error occurs, incoming email posts are emailed out multiple times and are not deleted from the mailbox. May be caused by certain incoming email messages containing text or headers that are not handled properly. 2.6.1beta issue #3: Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '[forumdir]/includes/functions_threadprefix.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in [forumdir]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 41 status: unknown May be caused by an incorrect configuration or installation of the EI mod. 2.6.1beta issue #4: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function set_parsing_language() on a non-object in [forumdir]/includes/cron/emailintegration.php on line 1615 status: fixed see post #809 in this thread from toivo 2.6.1beta issue #5: Dismiss attachments mode doesn't work properly status: fixed see post #839 in this thread from capsize No members have liked this post.
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can we also start a thread for requested changes?
For example: if you really want this to work like an email list, you need to have the ability to either the "list" or just the person that sent the last post. It's like having "reply" vs "reply all". That's a huge piece of the puzzle missing for me and I sadly I can't use it until that's addressed. Shouldn't be too hard - make the "reply all" go back to the forum like usual, but the "reply" be directed as a PM to that one user. No members have liked this post.
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I have a tentative fix for issue #2. I believe this fix also resolves another aspect of issue #4. If you have experienced either issue #2 or #4, can you please try making the following changes plus toivo's change for #4 and report back as to whether the issues are fixed?
I believe the cause of #2 and #4 is that a variable is redefined and then unset within a block inside a loop. This causes the remaining code in the loop to now reference the unset variable. The workaround is to use a different name for the variable in the block so that it doesn't conflict with the other usage. The name collision appears to be a case where code was copied and pasted carelessly. I have made the changes to my installation and have seen no problems with this fix so far. Here's the fix to 2.6.1beta:
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#844
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Okay change now in place on my site, we'll see how it goes!
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I have the beta installed. Did a test by running it in task manager. Seems okay, yet nobody is getting emails (that I know of).
in hostname, is localhost ok, or should it be 'localhost' it seems that all users are set by default to receive emails from all forums. I have a junior member acct (who i have as an allowed usergroup), and am not receiving any emails other than the admin ones. i set each forum up with different addresses. still have the admin one. that is the one i'm still getting standard email notifications of. also, how or where can i check to see if those emails are going through? thanks. No members have liked this post.
Last edited by goldendox; 01 Jun 2008 at 21:49. |
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I'm still bouncing around, but have zero time to look into all the posts yet..
Wife lost her job, so having to take on alot of extra freelance work to keep the bills paid. No eta on when I'll be able to bust some more arse on this. There are a few new email parsers out I want to try. Just wanted to give ya all a headsup so you didn't think I was dead LOL. Just paying bills ![]()
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Hiya Cyricx, long time no chat, thanks for your help with getting this guy installed on my small forum.
I only have one sub-forum set up for important announcements, that's the one that has email integration turned on. My question is, is it possible to set it so that only one usergroup can post to particular forum, but that those posts are emailed to everyone on the forum (assuming everyone is subscribed?) If so, would I just set this up in that forum's usergroup permissions?
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I believe right now, those two permissions are tied together in the "Please enter the usergroup IDs that can use this feature." setting in the Forum Manager. That controls who can choose to receive the emails as well as who is enabled to receive them.
I'll add this to my list to separate those permissions though.
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I have just re-installed the EI mod to a test forum with the suggested modifications. Messages are read and posted all right to the forum, and they magically started arriving by email, too.
Regards, toivo No members have liked this post.
Last edited by toivo; 03 Jun 2008 at 03:24. |
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Originally Posted by Cyricx
Ah, okay, I was thinking I could set this up with the standard forum permissions (ie: restricting postability via the standard admin tools.)![]()
I anxiously await any future updates. This mod makes vBulletin so much better for our needs and I really appreciate your work on it. Thank you!
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I'm having a problem similar to a previous poster. Scheduled Task Manager error message reads:
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Thanks. Sorry to hear about your wife losing her job. Hang in there. I've disabled this beta till able to get support regarding why it's not working. Thanks.
{QUOTE=Cyricx;1538174]I'm still bouncing around, but have zero time to look into all the posts yet.. Wife lost her job, so having to take on alot of extra freelance work to keep the bills paid. No eta on when I'll be able to bust some more arse on this. There are a few new email parsers out I want to try. Just wanted to give ya all a headsup so you didn't think I was dead LOL. Just paying bills ![]() No members have liked this post.
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With some help from my host, I moved beyond the mail connection problem above and onto a new problem.
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Originally Posted by goldendox
If the email messages you send to the mailbox are read all right by EI mod, then obviously the hostname of your SMTP server is correct. If the mailbox is on a mail server running in the same box as your vBulletin, the hostname should be just localhost, without quotes.
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Originally Posted by rcwild
The script /includes/class_dm.php is not part of the EI mod but obviously its methods are being used when posting the email messages. ![]()
The 30 second restriction comes from the flood check setting in AdminCP - vBulletin Options - Email Options: "This is the number of seconds that must elapse between emails that a user can send to other members. This is primarily to prevent a user from easily spamming members. Set it to 0 to disable this option." It would be useful to see what actual error causes the $errors array to have a message. Have you tried to change the 30 second limit to 0? No members have liked this post.
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