Mail2News Module

[Rahya]

Damned!

I asked my provider and he tould me, that is it not possible for me to get imap-function

Is there another way to use this fantastic addon? *blink*

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

unfortunately it does not work without imap.

Matthias

[Rahya]

I changed my Provider and get IMAP from my new one. When I create a News-Section and Mail2NewsReader-Section and go to the preferences to fill in the pop3 settings it's working without troubles. Then I open this "News"-Site to catch the emails from the pop3-account from the server. But nothing happens
When I login in the emailaccount, the Emails are still there (unread) - I tried many times, with and without same settings like Emailclient, but here it doesn't work. I've tried also to change the $server-Variable like "notls" - there's also no effect...

I don't get any error-messages, only an empty site...

What can I do to get the "mistake", because to have it run like it should???

Greetings and many thanks for your time *blink*

[Rahya]

Is there no one who can help me?   

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

the mail2news modul only call mails with the defined "subject". For example if you have set the subject in the mail2news reader options to "NEWS-", the script only calls mails with the subject "NEWS-here comes your subject". there are no spacing allowed between the defined subject and your user subject.

Also look at the helpfile wich comes with this modul.

Matthias

[Raven]

Hi,

is there a means to email to news/update offsite without IMAP support? The host on which the WB installation I want to be updated this way resides, refuses to install PHP_IMAP and moving the site is no option currently either.

Greetings

Raven

[Revive]

Hello,
I have installed the module, ensured there is a news section, with a group, and that it is inserted into a section on one of our pages.. The news page is hid from view, but when I open it,.. it doesn't show any emails that have come through.. I have tried with 3 different emailings.. no luck. I get this error every so often when I refresh the page:

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {mail.revivecoffeehouse.com:110/pop3}INBOX in /home/passanie/public_html/revivecoffeehouse/pages/modules/mail2news/mailread.php on line 61

Warning: imap_headers(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in /home/passanie/public_html/revivecoffeehouse/pages/modules/mail2news/mailread.php on line 63

Warning: imap_expunge(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in /home/passanie/public_html/revivecoffeehouse/pages/modules/mail2news/mailread.php on line 169

Warning: imap_close(): supplied argument is not a valid imap resource in /home/passanie/public_html/revivecoffeehouse/pages/modules/mail2news/mailread.php on line 170

IMAP is running on our server...

Any ideas??

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

"notls"

try to change line 51 of mailread.php from:

Code:

$server="{".$post['server'].":110/pop3}INBOX";

to

Code:

$server="{".$post['server'].":110/pop3/notls}INBOX";

Matthias

[Revive]

@Matthias,. you rock!

It works like a charm!

[bigeddude]

Today I tackled getting the Mail2News module working and like Rahya in post #52 I was not getting any messages from the mail server.  By changing line 62

from

Code:

$mbox = imap_open ("$server", "$username", "$password")

to

Code:

$mbox = imap_open ("$server", "$username", "$password") or die("Can't connect: " . imap_last_error());

I found that the error returned was 'Cannot login to this server'.

I changed line 52 in mailread.php

from

Code:

$server="{".$post['server'].":110/pop3}INBOX";

to

Code:

$server ='{'.$post['server'].'/notls/imap4}INBOX';

and all is working well for me now.

I hope this may help someone trying to use this module and getting no joy as was the case with me before making this modification.

[Revive]

Wow, it's been a while since I've been here! Just got an email that this thread was updated.. glad to see progress is being made with the Mail2News function..
I must say, as much as I love WSB and its ease of use.. we no longer use it.. and after a short learning curve, the initial fear of which is what pushed us to seek out WSB in the first place, we have moved all of our sites over to Joomla, and find it to be infinitely more configurable, supported and robust.

We wish the WSB team the best and know there are many people who need this CMS, today and in the future. Thank you for all the support, and such a great product which has help us grow as a company,

Team Revive

[erpe]

Hi

will someone be so kind and post a working version including all modifyings?
There were so many modifyings in this thread.

Thank you.

rgds

erpe

[ruebenwurzel]

@erpe

depending on the server we need the normal modul or the "notls" version. Not shure if it is possible to integrate a server check in the module and then use depending from the result the one or the other version.

Matthias

[erpe]

Maybe it's a good idea to post both so one can try out, what fits ?
But if there is a possibility to do it by server check that would be great.

rgds

erpe

[johnboy]

Hi,

I have installed the module and set up a general News group, added a news section to a page, then added the mail2news section to that.

I can email the designated account all day long with the correct "key" in the subject but it never appears on the page - I am leaving it as non-cron job.

Any ideas about were I should start trying to figure out why it will not work?

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

depending on your server maybe you need the "notls" version.

http://www.websitebaker2.org/forum/index.php/topic,9004.msg53279.html#msg53279

Matthias

[johnboy]

sadly my german is not so good - can anyone paraphrase that issue/solution for me?

[ecology]

hello together!
this tread is a bit old, never mind. i had a lot of problems with this module mail2news and i think people ho like to use this module should get some infos to fix a problem what i had with-it.

a lot of time in this tread was written some code to ad the "notls" to the mailread.php
i did it but nothing happen!
after a lot of searching in the internet i found the following that helped me to run this module correctly.

i use a pop3 connection to my mailaccount and there is NO "Inbox" to connect!
so the code in line 51 should look like this:

Code:

$server="{".$post['server'].":995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}";

you can see,... there is no INBOX after the } definied.

to find out if you can connect to your email i was testing the code by this script in a blank code-page:

Code:

if(imap_open ("{pop3.domain.xx:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}", "your@mail.here", "your_password"))
{
    echo 'Connection success!';
}
else
{
    echo 'Connection failed';
}

i hope that help's other yousing this greate module!

(sorry for my english) 

[xoanon]

Hello everybody
Is there a way to post an email in Greek or non Latin-based alphabet and display the content correctly?
Works great with English...
 Also if the Subject-line contains a mix of characters......... . the email is ignored   eg:  Subject: "NEWSGR: Νεα(News)"


I currently get lots of unrecognisable characters..... OE, OB etc in the actual content...

your help is akindly needed..
regards
tony

[wh]

Hello,
I was very happy with mail2news until today

I did the upgrade to WebsiteBaker 2.81 and mail2news didn´t work correkt since then.

In aother thread I was told that the module doesnt work with the new news format.

Please can anyone make an update for this very fine modul !!

Thanks
Werner