[archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager

andreas · 2007-09-29 07:51:36

One of my subscribers reported that in Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 he gets these lines at the top of every mail:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20070907153510.CDBABD113ED@www.rb06.de>
Date: Fri,  7 Sep 2007 17:35:10 +0200 (CEST)

I sent text mails using this form:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Neuigkeiten vom Kreigymnasium Neuenburg
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Guten Tag <txp:bab_pm_data display="name" />,

auf der KGN Website ist ein neuer Beitrag erschienen, den Sie unten lesen können. Den Originalbeitrag finden Sie hier: 

<txp:bab_pm_data display="link" /> 

[ <txp:site_url /> > <txp:bab_pm_data display="section" /> > <txp:bab_pm_data display="category1" /> ]

Freundliche Grüße, 
Ihr Kreisgymnasium Neuenburg


**********************************************************

<txp:bab_pm_data display="title" />

<txp:bab_pm_data display="body_html" strip_html="yes" />

**********************************************************

Möchten Sie diesen Newsletter künftig nicht mehr erhalten? Klicken Sie den folgenden Link, um ihn abzubestellen: 

<txp:bab_pm_unsubscribeLink type="text" />

The lines mentioned above appear before my first line. I don’t see them in Apple Mail nor in Google Mail.

Any ideas?

Last edited by andreas (2007-09-29 07:52:06)

andreas · 2007-09-29 07:57:04

I have a suggestion about URLs in the Newsletter.

I use clean URLs on my site and create some landing pages with if_category logic etc. Since the Newsletter spells out messy URLs, the articles linked there are not always displayed properly (obviously, if_category etc doesn’t work with an id-based URL).

Would it be possible to offer a “building block URL” set? I was thinking of putting together tags to build my URL “by hand” according to the URL scheme I’m using (I use gpb_permanent_links on the site).

Perhaps an example (in the way it could work):

 <txp:site_url />/<txp:bab_pm_data display="section" />/<txp:bab_pm_data display="category1" />/<txp:bab_pm_data display="url" />

It would be great, if this would render a linked URL based on the tags (with “URL” reading the URL field from the DB, so that custom article URLs would also work.

What do you think?

mrdale · 2007-10-21 15:03:45

Remember to set Firefox’s popup blocker to disabled (not just allow from your site.)

This might have saved me some time if I’d remembered it.

Last edited by mrdale (2007-10-21 17:38:57)

mrdale · 2007-10-21 17:52:24

Ok I have another problem… Thunderbird won’t display the multi-part email properly.

When I view the message, the last few items of the header are each seperated by a blank line. I’m guessing this causes the mail app to view them as not part of the header, but part of the email. I’ve tried the gmail fix to change the “\r\n” to “\n” but to no avail.

Actually, it seems like I can edit the header string, ie

$headers = "From: $listAdminEmail" . "\n" . "Reply-To: $listAdminEmail" . "\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\n" . "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\n" . 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"' . "\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit";

however I like and I still get the same result…

any ideas?

Last edited by mrdale (2007-10-21 18:14:09)

feragnoli · 2007-10-28 22:54:38

is there the possibility to push this plugin and a plugin like mem_self_register towards the same path so that users can register and opt to end on a mailing list in the same moment?

benbruce · 2007-10-30 22:17:40

feragnoli,

Is there anyway to hack it so that both forms use the same submit button? So you’d have:

Form (mem_self_register) <br />
Form (postmaster checkbox) <br />
Submit

Not sure how you would accomplish this, but off the top of my head that seems easiest.

Ben

benbruce · 2007-10-30 22:18:28

mrdale,

have you played around with removing the “end” mime tag (or adding it, if it’s not there)?

Ben

mrdale · 2007-10-31 06:57:36

Actually, I did remove the end tag and it solved one problem. Having moved all my sites to a PHP5 server I did have to set up a dummy site on an old server to get the newsletters to display properly. PHP 5 on solaris, seems to split up the header with blank lines, which breaks in most mail apps.

Any ideas? Oh, and I tried editing the plugin as per earlier instructions….

Locutionist · 2007-11-05 03:47:10

Running into a problem I can’t find in the forums.

I’m trying to test Postmaster and have followed all the instructions to a T — popups off, messy unsubscribe URL., article set up with txp:bab_pm_unsubscribe, etc. — but when I click “save” to send the article, the popup says “BULK EMAIL / Nice try” and nothing gets emailed.

What does this mean, and how do I fix it?

Thanks much.

mrdale · 2007-11-05 15:39:27

Wild guess: Sounds like your host or service provider is blocking the mail function?

Locutionist · 2007-11-05 22:02:20

Ah, I hadn’t thought of that. I’ll check it out, thanks.

benbruce · 2007-11-05 22:11:22

Locutionist,

Try setting your batch to a smaller number — you may be able to get around the blocking issue.

Ben

PS. mrdale, sorry I’m no help.

Last edited by benbruce (2007-11-05 22:12:09)

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