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

benbruce · 2007-09-04 19:38:27

kevinmcdougall, we must have been writing at the same time this morning. Glad you got that worked out, and unless I hear (or discover) differently, I’ll take your advice about removing those “\r\n“s. Honestly I don’t remember why those were in there.

Ben

kevinmcdougall · 2007-09-05 08:56:22

ben, Postmaster is fantastic don’t get me wrong, though I understood from reading the docs that it allowed customisation of the mail sent to new subscribers, however, it doesn’t seem able to do that. Am I wrong, have I missed something here?

This must surely be a feature which many users would welcome. If I can figure out how to do it, I’ll post it here, and if yourself or anyone else has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

benbruce · 2007-09-05 16:47:42

kevinmcdougall,

That email is sent by ZCR. I think I misunderstood the ZCR plugin — I don’t think anyone has had any success with that yet. I know there is a new release of ZCR plugin that might have that capability added, or if you knew your way around (which it seems like you do) you could mess with the ZCR plugin to make it do what you want.

Ben

PS. and definitely do post your fixes if you find them.

Last edited by benbruce (2007-09-05 16:48:05)

facho · 2007-09-06 01:09:31

I am sure this has been answered a billion times already (please point me to thread if so), but i cannot seem to find it. I am new to all of this CMS stuff, so please be kind in your response to my retarded questions. I think I have this plug-in working for the most part….but I am having trouble getting HTML sent. I am using a form (I basically copied by landing page code for testing purposes). However, when i get the mail in outlook, it shows the raw code instead of it being formatted.

How do i specify HTML instead of plain text?

Signed,
Captain retard.

benbruce · 2007-09-06 05:17:19

facho,

Have you read the tutorial? If so, have you seen these examples?

Ben

facho · 2007-09-06 05:59:15

Yes, i did read through the tutorial and even looked at the examples. However, neither really seems to talk about how to style/format a newsletter in such a manner as to include XHTML etc. Perhaps I am either missing something (very possible), or my expectations are not consistent with what the plug in can actually do.

What I am attempting to accomplish is a scaled down (but not that much) version of the site landing page (www.healthnutnation.com/textpattern/textpattern). I basically have created the XHTML and TXP tags within that to generate a newsletter that is formatted the way I would like. However, when i take that code and drop it into a newsletter form, it sends me a raw dump of that code. Are my expectations too high or am i just missing how to accomplish the task?

your response is greatly appreciated my friend.

andreas · 2007-09-06 06:17:22

I haven’t used HTML mails myself, so here’s just another pointer:

perhaps the mime-related tag does something you want
maybe this article contains useful info
the extensive tag (and especially attribute) descriptions might be useful

Dandruff · 2007-09-07 13:54:47

first of all, thanks for this wonderful plugin.

I changed the header bit in the Postmaster source, but the emails are still marked as spam in Gmail. Am I missing something else?

thanks

benbruce · 2007-09-07 19:01:30

Dandruff,

There are any number of reasons your emails are being marked as spam. There are a few pages in the Postmanual that might help, though:

Text vs. HTML emails (this is probably not helpful. Kind of annoying advice)
HTML email resources (you’ll notice there aren’t many listed, though a quick search would bring up millions)

If you find your answer, please post it here or in the postmanual.

facho,

You’re confusion is not unique — this is a hurdle with this plugin, and I hope to make things more simple as time goes on. In any case, andreas pointed you to the correct pages for help. As for needing more:

Here’s the example email form:

Here is a text warning.

<txp:bab_pm_mime type="text" />

Here is the text version.

<txp:bab_pm_mime type="html" />

Here is the HTML version.

<txp:bab_pm_mime type="end" />

So, you are going to want to replace Here is the text version with the text version, and Here is the HTML version with the HTML version. How do you do that?

You’ll use the <txp:bab_pm_data /> tag to pull the different versions into your newsletter form. Something like this:

Here is a text warning.

<txp:bab_pm_mime type="text" />

<txp:bab_pm_data display="excerpt" />

<txp:bab_pm_mime type="html" />

<txp:bab_pm_data display="body" />

<txp:bab_pm_mime type="end" />

Where “body” and “excerpt” — fields on your write page — will hold your HTML code and text version respectively

Does that make any more sense? If this is helpful, I will flesh out that article in the Postmanual. Edits are welcome,

Ben

Last edited by benbruce (2007-09-07 19:08:00)

benbruce · 2007-09-07 23:27:35

andreas,

I noticed that PM has “default” set to mail every subscriber (I’m updating the code for the next version) and wondered if this might have had something to do with your issue of mailing to every subscriber (if somehow the name you had entered for a list was being confused with “default”). Just a thought.

Ben

benbruce · 2007-09-07 23:29:23

producemedia,

Did you get your issue resolved? That’s the default form that you’re receiving, so I suspect you didn’t enter a custom form name in the Edit List page (if that makes any sense).

Ben

sthmtc · 2007-09-11 14:26:46

I’m offering multiple lists and would like to let the user check or uncheck checkboxes for the lists he wants to subscribe to, how would I do this? I’ve tried a few things with zem_contact_checkbox but without success…

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