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

andreas · 2007-07-31 07:57:23

Does anything on this page help at all?

Halleluja! It did. It was the problem with gbp_permanent_links. Installing v0.11.617 solved it.

Thanks very much for your help, Ben!

andreas · 2007-07-31 13:09:14

Hi there – me again :-(

By now, the subscription mechanism works fine, I’ve got my two lists set up and have added a test subscriber to each one.

I had a strange problem when I ran test mailings for each list.

The first list (which is selected by default) sends out mailings to all subscribers, no matter which list they are subscribed to. It also ignores my mailing form and uses some kind of default form instead which looks like this:

 Kal has posted a new article at http://www[...]
Read article at: http://www.[...]/index.php?id=62
Unsubscribe:

The strange thing is that when I email the same article to the other list, everything works fine.

I have checked the details of each list’s entry and couldn’t find any difference between them except the subject line and the name of the form to use.

Ben, any ideas?

Last edited by andreas (2007-07-31 13:10:06)

benbruce · 2007-08-01 20:51:19

andreas,

Quick question: Have you associated your form with your list (in the EXTENSIONS > POSTMASTER > LISTS > EDIT screen)? The form that it’s using is the default form, which should only appear if you don’t specify an alternative.

Ben

andreas · 2007-08-01 21:13:07

I have (and double-ckecked). The other thing is, that it sends the emails to every subscriber in the DB table – so there must be another problem.

benbruce · 2007-08-02 05:41:50

andreas,

What are the names of your lists?

Ben

andreas · 2007-08-02 05:56:57

What are the names of your lists?

“Alle Neuigkeiten” and “Nur Schulrundbrief”

benbruce · 2007-08-02 06:05:24

Sorry, red herring. I thought maybe I had a thought.

Ben

NeilA · 2007-08-04 05:39:51

Hey Ben,

This is such an excellent plugin – thanks again for all your time and effort…

One quick question: I’m sending out plain text emails using the <txp:bab_pm_data display=“body_html” strip_html=“yes” /> code.
It’s working fine, except that the plain text version in the email is putting a tab space at the start of every paragraph.
This is looking a bit strange in some articles, so is there a way to kill those inserted tabs?

Thanks!

NeilA · 2007-08-04 23:26:41

While I’m at it Ben… ;-)

I’m also getting the:
Notice: error_article_context in /home/.akasha/swac/fnc.swac.org.au/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php on line 1887
error on some articles. It’s printed twice in a couple of cases.

The emails appear to go out OK, so I’m not all that worried.
The form used to display articles does use a ‘more…’ link if they have an excerpt, so it might well be the same thing reported earlier, but I’m not sure then why I get the error printed to screen twice…

Any thoughts?

Cheers

benbruce · 2007-08-06 23:56:10

NeilA,

Both of those issues are annoyingly unresolved. I think the “inserted tabs” is just sleuthing — finding where in the code that is being done, and reversing it in the “strip_html” part of PM code. The “article_context” issue is probably the same. I think I could make that go away if I had time to dig into TXP and figure out how to define article_context. But I never do seem to have the time. I’ve been trying some experiments with the inserted tabs to no avail, but I’ll let you know if I find anything.

– Ben

NeilA · 2007-08-07 00:48:26

Thanks Ben – I understand the problem of debugging these small problems…

Anyone else out there more experienced than me with PHP want to help track down the ‘inserted tab’ problem?

Cheers

facho · 2007-08-13 22:55:58

Anyone know how to edit the formatting of this great plug-in? I’m trying to roll out a very simple implementation of the plug-in so that I can collect email addresses for monthly newsletter mailings. What I have not been able to figure out is how to change the “Contact” text that shows up and that ovalish frame. You can see how I have it implemented here Example

I’m a total newbie so any help is appreciated.

benbruce · 2007-08-13 23:25:30

facho,

The subscription form is actually created using zem_contact_reborn, so that’s a better place to go for styling. Check the zem_contact_reborn Help file first (do you know how to find the help files? Go to Admin > Plugins and then click the “View” link next to zem_contact_reborn), and if that doesn’t get you what you need you can ask for help here (the support thread for zem_contact_reborn).

Ben

facho · 2007-08-13 23:27:44

thanks, I’ll take a look and see what i can figure out. Muchos gracias.

andreas · 2007-08-14 06:31:58

facho, the “Contact” text is set by the label attribute in the <txp:zem_contact> tag.

<txp:zem_contact to="your@email.com" label="Subscribe">

Your complete form could look like this:

<txp:zem_contact to="your@email.com" label="Subscribe">
<txp:zem_contact_email name="zemSubscriberEmail" label="Submit your email" break="br" />
<txp:zem_contact_submit /> 
<input type="hidden" name="zemSubscriberLists" value="your-list-name" >
</txp:zem_contact>

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