Good luck, Loren & thank you for mentioning my vBulletin PM reader in your software.

vBulletin PM Reader

Many online forums use  vBulletin as their forum engine. For each forum user, vBulletin provides a limited inbox for private messages. It also lets users to download their inbox as a single XML file.

vBulletin PM Reader is a free utility for managing your private messages in different vBulletin forums locally. It imports XML files generated by vBulletin, parses all the messages, and stores them in a local database.

I developed vBulletin PM Reader for personal use. I used to receive many private messages from users in some of the forums I was a member, but my Inbox folder could have had only 50 messages. I was looking for a way to keep track of all the messages I receive; therefore, I created vBulletin PM Reader. Later on, I thought there might be other people who have the same problem, so I published vBulletin PM Reader here.

Features:

• vBulletin PM Reader is a Freeware and does NOT install any Ad ware or Spyware.
• BBCodes are supported for formatting text. Supported tags are: [B],[U],[I],[URL],[CODE],[IMG],[RIGHT],[CENTER],[LEFT],[RTL],[COLOR],[SIZE],[QUOTE].
• Smilies are supported in messages. Users can have different smilies set for different forums.
• vBulletin PM Reader can search for any particular message in its database. Search filter could be a combination of folder name, sender or receiver name, date/time, or message subject.
• vBulletin PM Reader lets user to have different database files to store messages from different online forums.
• Messages are stored according to their folder name and they could be sorted by their date, subject, sender or receiver’s name.
• Duplicated messages are recognized automatically and could be reconciled by user.
• Unwanted messages could be deleted from database.
• Each message could be exported to a HTML file.
• Right-to-Left reading is supported in preview pane.

Considerations:

• vBulletin PM Reader needs Microsoft Jet Engine as database provider. MS Jet Engine is installed by MS Windows and MS Office installation packages, but if you are using an old version of Windows (e.g. Win95 or Win98), you should download and install MS Jet Engine from Microsoft website before using this software.
• Formatting text in QUOTE and CODE blocks might be added to the software in later releases.
• Supporting Similes might be added to the software in later releases.
• Two sample XML files will be installed in the installation path.

Versions:

• 1.0.1.41 : (2008/06/05)  (Current Version)

• Fixed bug caused by IE7
• Message navigation buttons are added to toolbar.
• Some minor bugs and memory leaks are fixed.

• 1.0.0.37 : (2007/03/15)

• BBCode Text formatting are supported now.
• Smilies support is added for each data file.
• XML Importer code is optimized.
• Exported files are text-formatted.
• Some minor bugs and memory leaks are fixed.

• 0.9.2.22 : (2006/12/05)

• Toolbars and menu customization is added.

• 0.9.2.21 : (2006/11/25)

• The first released Beta version.

System Requirements:

• Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP.
• 1.30 MB free space on hard disk.
• Memory usages is depended on database size, but the minimum consumption is 12.5 MB.

Download:

Download vBulletin PM Reader