William Santos Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 File Name: Reply PM by Email File Submitter: William Santos File Submitted: 21 Apr 2013 File Category: User and Social Engagement Supported Versions: IP.Board 3.4.x Introduction Reply PM by Email is a IP.Board Modification that allows your users to reply to Personal Conversations (PMs) by replying to the email. You can not start new Personal Conversations by email, you can only reply to existing Personal Conversations. For people who forward emails from one account to another: The reply must be made with the email account of a member who is participating on the conversation, or it will be ignored.Attention !- Your host need to support PIPE Email Redirect (cPanel allows it) - Your new pm/new reply emails' subject will change. Example: 'User has replied to a personal conversation (ID:3084)' and 'User started a new personal conversation with you (ID:3084)'. It will add the (ID:%) on the end, where % is the PM id. here to download this file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ae9803 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Hello, I would like to test this feature, but how? I registered on the site, and I went thru the validation but I cant pm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean West Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Curious about email address used for sending? IPB has for email configuration an incoming and outgoing email address - in the past I used my valid one that goes to an account "support" looking at the instructions I changed it to match "mailings". So now all email that my site sends comes from mailings? What happens if someone replies to that but it wasn't a PM? I don't have a valid mailings mail box? I just confirmed that other system emails that send mail use that setting so even new registrations get the "mailings" - so if someone need to contact me via that i would never see the reply. I had to reset my original account and reset the pipe forward - and also confirm that general mail that to meet the PIPE script requirements pass thru standard email only email that match get redirect to the PM. It would almost be the next logical option to have some way to configure a dedicated email address just for Private Messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean West Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Another suggestion - if the pipe script could also trigger what it needs to turn on the flag indicator? I just tried and the other user didn't have any indication that a reply was sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Santos Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 Hello, I would like to test this feature, but how? I registered on the site, and I went thru the validation but I cant pm? All the accounts need to be activated by email confirmation and by an administrator. All the pending accounts for administrator activation where activated now. Curious about email address used for sending? IPB has for email configuration an incoming and outgoing email address - in the past I used my valid one that goes to an account "support" looking at the instructions I changed it to match "mailings". So now all email that my site sends comes from mailings? What happens if someone replies to that but it wasn't a PM? I don't have a valid mailings mail box? I just confirmed that other system emails that send mail use that setting so even new registrations get the "mailings" - so if someone need to contact me via that i would never see the reply. I had to reset my original account and reset the pipe forward - and also confirm that general mail that to meet the PIPE script requirements pass thru standard email only email that match get redirect to the PM. It would almost be the next logical option to have some way to configure a dedicated email address just for Private Messages. If you have the mailings account created in your webmail server, than you must receive all the emails sent to it, even the replys to PMs. The email redirection only redirects, but you will still receive all the emails in your mail account. You don't need to confirm it. If the email isn't answering to any PM, the pipe.php will ignore it. Another suggestion - if the pipe script could also trigger what it needs to turn on the flag indicator? I just tried and the other user didn't have any indication that a reply was sent. Sorry, I couldn't understand very well what you wrote. Anyway, when you reply to a Personal Conversation, the other users in that Conversation will receive an email saying that you replied to it. This is automatically done by IP.Board when the reply is added to the Conversation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ae9803 Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Its hard to test the feature because you cant pm yourself.... : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean West Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 sure just create a new user with another email in your control. Or have a conversation with one of your staff or admins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Santos Posted April 27, 2013 Author Share Posted April 27, 2013 Its hard to test the feature because you cant pm yourself.... : Hello, You can send me a Private Message here with your name in the my forum and I'll start a new conversation with you. Regards, William Santos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Mc Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 IN my instance - I am hosting my own VPS, and using Google Apps to host my domains email services. I intentionally have not installed any mail services on the VPS to avoid the hassel and hardware strain to maintain only a handful of emails. Do you know of a way I can pipe the e-mail from a google apps email addy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Santos Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 Hello, It can be done with a cron job and a php script checking your Google Mailbox for new emails. This is not supported yet, but I will probably support it in the future. Regards, William Santos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ae9803 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hello William, Does this still work?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Santos Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 Hello William, Does this still work?! Hello, I do not know - I don't have any active board. Ask Ocean West :) http://community.invisionpower.com/user/149125-ocean-west/ Best Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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