mem_postmaster - Postmaster Revamp

Bloke · 2020-12-22 20:22:51

I’ve taken a stab at modernising mem_postmaster in my official unofficial fork. Things this is NOT:

A brand new thing. It is just some band-aid to get it working on newer (Txp 4.7+) installations.
Long-term supported. I’ll get it to a point where it works and patch a few bugs here and there but I’m not intending to grow features. For that, its completely new spin-off smd_newsletter will take over.

But things this IS:

More robust – fewer runtime errors/warnings. Fewer (hopefully no) installation errors. Although PHP 8 might throw a curveball here.
Able to send HTML email, although currently I misinterpreted how it worked and introduced a different way of working via parallel forms. I need to back-fill this with <txp:bab_pm_mime> after Yiannis kindly showed me how it was supposed to be used (thank you).
Able to send mail via PHPMailer if you add it to your /textpattern/vendors directory. It’ll automatically pick it up and use it to send mail internally via mail(). In a few commits’ time it’ll be able to also route mail via a third party SMTP server if you define a few hidden prefs containing the credentials. More info will be forthcoming on that.
Able to integrate with other plugins/modules to offer additional functionality, such as different encoding/filtering of prepared content prior to mailing out. There’s a callback (name not finalised yet) that enables this facility.

No compiled plugin is available yet but the code is freely available on GitHub and can be copied and pasted over your existing mem_postmaster, providing your plugin is of type 5. Change it in phpMyAdmin if necessary. And backup first!

colak · 2020-12-23 04:59:55

Hi Stef, Thanks so much for adopting this plugin. I’ll. be testing it and report back on this thread.

colak · 2020-12-26 09:18:50

Hi Stef
I was testing your latest postmaster official unofficial fork from github. I just copied/pasted it in my existing plugin which is type 5. After saving I visited the Articles tab which returned the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<', expecting end of file in /path/to/neme.org/textpattern/plugins/mem_postmaster/mem_postmaster.php on line 2

Bloke · 2020-12-26 10:04:46

Did you copy/paste the entire.php file in? If copying it, only grab the chunk between BEGIN and END PLUGIN CODE markers.

colak · 2020-12-26 10:58:50

Bloke wrote #327865:

Did you copy/paste the entire.php file in? If copying it, only grab the chunk between BEGIN and END PLUGIN CODE markers.

That stops the particular error but the emails sent have big issues

They are totally unformatted; textile, txp, and html tags are not parsed
they are ignoring the from email field set by postmaster.
images are not embedded
there is a problem with non Latin characters. Here is a snippet of what I received in my test mail.

Την Παρασκευή 6 Νοεμβρίου, στι&sigmaf; 7:30 μ.μ., to NeMe έχει τη μεγάλη χαρά να σα&sigmaf;

I can forward you one to see what they look like and another one to see how it should have looked.

colak · 2022-10-17 04:04:49

As we are steadily approaching 3000 subscribers, more of our emails end up in the spam folders of on line email providers, especially gmail. As such I reached out to them on Twitter, and they promptly directed me to support.google.com/a/answer/81126. I checked with our host, and they do support DMARC, SPF, and DKIM.

Could this plugin support these protocols?

Bloke · 2022-10-17 08:25:13

SPF and DMARC should be able to be configured independently of the plugin. All you’re doing is adding headers to your email addresses saying you trust yourself, and what to do in the event that a message fails delivery.

DKIM is a little more involved as it requires the public key to be added to all messages. So the plugin would need modifying to read that from some pref.

Alternatively, if you’re happy to copy some of the dev code to your site, SMTP email protocol support in dev lets you specify your DKIM key in config.php, which is then passed on. I can advise what you need to do, but it’s fairly involved.

colak · 2022-10-17 17:01:16

Bloke wrote #333973:

Alternatively, if you’re happy to copy some of the dev code to your site, SMTP email protocol support in dev lets you specify your DKIM key in config.php, which is then passed on. I can advise what you need to do, but it’s fairly involved.

Hi Stef
hanks so much for your response. The problem here may be with our host’s limits for SMTP email. I’ll have to investigate it.

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Re: mem_postmaster - Postmaster Revamp

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Re: mem_postmaster - Postmaster Revamp

Bloke wrote #327865:

#330 2022-10-17 04:04:49

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Re: mem_postmaster - Postmaster Revamp

Bloke wrote #333973:

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