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

colak · 2007-11-09 16:00:17

Hi Ben

Your links helped tremendously. Thanks! FF and Safari do keep refreshing but on testing it with Opera all worked as expected.

The main question before I go live with this is what kind of load can this cause on the server (textdrive) and the database (neme.org)?
The reason of wanting to set up this newsletter is because we have a list of about 600 emails of people who wrote to us through our contact form requesting that we ‘subscribe them. Currently we are doing it via our apple mail app but I think that postmaster would be a better alternative as our address book is currently filled with names we don’t know making the autofill of the recipient’s email slightly tedious.
The last thing I would wish is to receive emails with complaints from my host.
thanks again for the pointers.

colak · 2007-11-09 16:58:41

One last thing…
In the body of the email I also get the following:

Reply-To: mymail@domain.tld

X-Mailer: PHP/5.1.4

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“UTF-8”

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20071109165111.C25EABD82G@burnaby.textdrive.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:51:11 +0000 (GMT)

then the email is here

Is there a way to not have that information visible within the message?

This is what I currently have in the form

Dear <txp:bab_pm_data display="name" />,
<txp:bab_pm_data display="body" />

facho · 2007-11-11 21:23:41

I have recently installed the plug-in, but cannot seem to get images added to emails. I am using html as the mail format and that seems to b working because the links contained with my articles are hyperlinking in the mail as I expect. It’s just that darn image thingy I cannot figure out. Here is my form:

<txp:bab_pm_mime type=“html” />

Dear <txp:bab_pm_data display=“name” />,

The following Health Nut Nation article has been published at Health Nut Nation.
<p></p>
<br />

What am I missing? If it matters at all, I am using the Bas image plug-in to associate pictures to my articles.

Any help is appreciated. I’ve search this forum/plug-in instructions page for the answer (which I am sure is here), but to no avail.

THANKS EVERYONE FOR ANY HELP YOU PROVIDE!

ferenczi · 2007-11-13 05:42:45

facho, the first thing that came to mind when I read your question was that the path to the article image would need to be absolute. But I just tried it, and it doesn’t work for me, either. If your image will remain constant (if it’s a logo, say), you might just put

<img src="http://your site.com/images/1.gif" alt="" />

in your form. By the way, facho, a while back you asked a question that didn’t really receive a full response, namely: how to apply styles to html emails using postmaster. This has stymied me as well. Did you ever figure that out? I would at least like to be able to specify a font family, font size, and font color, and style my links differently.

Any help would be appreciated!

Last edited by ferenczi (2007-11-13 05:44:28)

facho · 2007-11-13 07:46:39

Yeah, unfortunately the images are not static. They are the article’s image and each one has its own. To your second question, the answer is no too. I never got a good answer so I have settled with just trying to figure out how to get the one article image added. I am hoping someone who knows this plug-in insde and out will chime in soon.

As far as styling, i have not had too much trouble there. Well, I should say that if I style anything in the article (via Textile) then it seems to output correctly in the newsletter.

Wish i could be more help. If I ever figure this out i will certainly share.

ferenczi · 2007-11-13 07:53:20

I guess that, despite the usability arguments against HTML email which in principle I agree with, I’m wanting this to produce something very much like complex HTML email, because some people do like that. Also, if a plain text option is available for clients who don’t accept HTML email, I see no harm in trying to create something branded (styled). Right now I have a very bare-bones HTML email. It’s okay, but how much better it would be if I could figure out a way to make it follow the styles I’ve developed for the site in question.

benbruce · 2007-11-13 15:27:04

ferenczi & facho,

You should be able to embed images. I believe the “article_image” tag only outputs the ID that you entered, I’m not positive. But you could try to build the image url like “http://www.site.com/images/<txp:bab_data display=‘article_image’ />”.

Have you tried adding a <style></style> set at the top of your HTML email?

Colak,

You’re still getting header info in your emails. Weird. I’m not sure how to fix that except to keep fiddling with different setups.

Ben

mrdale · 2007-11-13 16:37:44

Ben >

I think Colak and I are having the same problem. We’re both at textdrive and I recently transitioned my sites to the new openSolaris servers. Igner and I have been racking our brains trying to hack the plugin to work.

Runninig on Solaris
mysql/php v5.x
It looks like somewhere that I can’t identify line spacing get’s added to header lines and screws stuff up
we’ve tried the hack to remove “\r“s
could it be in the code that parses the body?

Anyway, I’d be happy to give you access to an install if you’re interested in trying to resolve the issue. perhaps colak and I can pony up to make it a little worth your while.

-Dale

Thanks again…

colak · 2007-11-13 19:42:03

mrdale wrote

perhaps colak and I can pony up to make it a little worth your while.

yep

benbruce · 2007-11-14 00:33:04

mrdale,

you can send me the login info (to my email) but i can’t promise when i’ll get in there and poke around.

please don’t you and colak pony up :).

Ben

gemal · 2007-11-14 22:06:24

I’m getting the same error

colak wrote:

One last thing…
In the body of the email I also get the following:

Reply-To: mymail@domain.tld

X-Mailer: PHP/5.1.4

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“UTF-8”

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20071109165111.C25EABD82G@burnaby.textdrive.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:51:11 +0000 (GMT)

then the email is here

Is there a way to not have that information visible within the message?

This is what I currently have in the form

Dear <txp:bab_pm_data display=“name” />,
<txp:bab_pm_data display=“body” />

gemal · 2007-11-15 11:10:26

The known problem with:
<txp:bab_pm_unsubscribeLink />
producing non working links, will that be fixed in a soon-to-be-released version?

I’m talking about the fix shown here:
http://www.benbruce.com/postmaster/allownonmessy

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