gbForumMail is a freeware application which provides offline viewing of your personal, vBulletin-based forum mail. You can view any or all of your forum mail folders, as well as search through your mail for a search string.

Download (v1.03, 90K)

gbForumMail uses a single main screen, with just a few controls (ListView control, which displays the email header information, and Viewer control, which displays the body of the selected email). There is no menu and no toolbar. There is a context menu for the ListView and Viewer controls).

Key Features

• Simple Interface
• Uses vBulletin mail text files without change
• Automatically detects downloaded folders
• Colors code/quote content to separate it from the rest of the message
• Sort mail by folder, from, to, date, and subjects
• Splitter bar to size mail list and mail content areas
• Alternating line colors in mail list (aids visual scanning of list)
• Optional viewing of headers with content
• Saves settings between sessions
• Find search string in mail content (search up/down and match case options)
• Automatically continue search in next/previous mail
• Find option spans mails
• Maintains last 20 search terms
• Auto-detect and open URLs found within mail content

Using gbForumMail

1. From your vBulletin forum, download your mail as a text file(s). Place the file(s) in the "messages" subfolder, found within the folder where you installed gbForumMail.
2. Run gbForumMail to view your forum mail!

That's it. When gbForumMail is opened, it automatically reads the files in the "messages" subfolder, determining which forum mail folders are present. If the folder does not exist, gbForumMail will create it.

Once the mail files are loaded, you may view mail from any folder, or view a composite listing of all mail.

You can also search to find mail containing any search string. See the section below for more information on the gbForumMail Find features.

Find Features

You can also simply press "Enter" within the search term edit box to initiate a search. When you press Enter from the search term edit box, the content of the edit box is highlighted and focus remains with the edit box - allowing you to change the search term without moving your hands off the keyboard.

Pressing the F3 button, or using the Ctrl-F key combination, will move focus to the search string edit box and highlight the current search string.

The "Search All" option will direct gbForumMail to move to the next/previous mail when no additional matches are found in the currently displayed mail.

Context Menu - ListView

• Show Email Summary - provide a count of all emails in all folders
• Alternating Line Colors - displays every 3 lines with a different background color

Context Menu - Content Viewer

• Show Email Summary - provide a count of all emails in all folders
• Alternating Line Colors - displays every 3 lines with a different background color

vBulletin Text Files

PowerBASIC Peer Support Forums;http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums
Private Message Dump for User Gary Beene; Nov 28th, 2010 05:49 PM -->

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Folder :	Inbox
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From :	Walt Decker
To :	Gary Beene
Date :	2010-05-27 14:21
Title :	opengl
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Gary:

Do you have the opengl includes from Jose's forum.  I've tried to download
his winapi which includes them, but I'm on dial-up and I only get about 
1/3 of the way through when the download fails.

Walt Decker

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Other Comments

Sessions
When gbForumMail starts, it opens restores the view from the last session. The gbForumMail window size and position are also restored.

INI File
gbForumMail application settings are saved in an INI file, kept in the same folder as the gbForumMail application.

Comments and suggestions are welcome!