Topic: Html Emails
i need a mod in wch can send html emails to all our members
thns
Re: Html Emails
I'm not sure whether the Broadcast Email plugin (it's on the download page) support HTML e-mail. If it doesn't, adding support shouldn't be difficult.
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Re: Html Emails
it doesnt i think but can some 1 do it
Re: Html Emails
If you're using your own local SMTP server (you are if you haven't entered an external SMTP server in admin/options), it should be easy.
Open up AP_Broadcast_Email.php and look for:
pun_mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_message);
Replace it with:
mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_message, 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n".'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');
That should do it. I haven't tested it, but give it a go.
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Re: Html Emails
no when we type any html code in the box and when we preview the email all html codes are shown not the html email
what to do now ?
Re: Html Emails
has any1 tried this and sent an html email to thier members and did it work
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I've made such addition to my forum. And I have to say - it required alot of changes (particularly in parser.php).
IMHO Rickard, you should support html subscription format natively, because it's really relevant feature.
Re: Html Emails
hey why dont u share it with us dexus
Re: Html Emails
Dexus wrote:
IMHO Rickard, you should support html subscription format natively, because it's really relevant feature.
Like most people who don't want to read hundreds of huge mails about penis enlargements and get molested by viruses I totally block html mails. The stupid tags just get stripped.
I have never ever seen a real use for them.
If I have something to say that requires layout and/or images I send a link to a web page.
So if you want to be sure your mails do not look crappy you shouldn't rely on html in emails. And if you have to send the html as an attachment so people can choose which one to view.
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Re: Html Emails
ok i wanna atleast add images to an email what to do for that
Re: Html Emails
Dexus wrote:
I've made such addition to my forum. And I have to say - it required alot of changes (particularly in parser.php).
I fail to see how parser.php is involved in sending HTML e-mails?
Dexus wrote:
IMHO Rickard, you should support html subscription format natively, because it's really relevant feature.
In my opinion, HTML e-mail is pure evil, so don't expect that anytime soon.
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Re: Html Emails
hey rickard the changes u told to make has some problem aftr u do that it sends email with server address not our address
Re: Html Emails
Rickard wrote:
HTML e-mail is pure evil
So I spent hours thinking how to say it in a polite manner - just to read this. 
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Re: Html Emails
Maybe Rickard thinks HTML email is evil, but I think it's great. 
To be able to add clickable links is nice... and the current version abuses my quotes. It puts... & q u o t ; ...instead of a quote.
mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_message, 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n".'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');This didn't work? Why not? What makes HTML mail HTML mail?!
Soooo... I did some reading. I found this article...
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/htmlemail.html
What is this... Content-type: Multipart/alternative ...part?! Would that be a better content-type to use... or are you supposed to use both?
Did anyone else test the new line that Rickard posted? Also, what is this part in the line... ."\r\n". ...what is that supposed to do?
I should be sending out a mass mailing later today, as the Sorrow's Furnace expansion for Guild Wars should launch soon. Maybe I can do some testing... although confidence is low that I'll solve this problem. HA HA
Michael Garofalo
Webmaster - Photics.com
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Re: Html Emails
Tobi wrote:
Rickard wrote:HTML e-mail is pure evil
So I spent hours thinking how to say it in a polite manner - just to read this.
Agreed, HTML mails are products of some very evil forces. As already mentioned, if the content of a mail requires HTML, it would be much better to just send out a link... HTML in mails == Potential security problems, and also, much cussing from 56k users 
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Re: Html Emails
clickable links are nice, but <a href="dodgysite.com">Your bank.com</a> != nice 
17 2005-09-07 14:59 (edited by Photics 2005-09-07 15:00)
Re: Html Emails
Connorhd wrote:
clickable links are nice, but <a href="dodgysite.com">Your bank.com</a> != nice
It's not like I'm going to do that to my users
If I do...
In a mass mailing, Mike wrote:
New Lost In Ascalon Cartoon...
http://photics.com/articles.php?articleId=65
They're more likely to read the article if it is clickable... and nicely formatted... with bold headline. If I just put the link there, they are less likely to cut n' paste it into a browser.
Michael Garofalo
Webmaster - Photics.com
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Photics wrote:
They're more likely to read the article if it is clickable...
If someone sends me an e-mail in plain text format, and writes "http://www.anysite.com" - that becomes clickable in my mail-client... so it's really mail-client issue... no?
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Re: Html Emails
Plain mail cannot be right to left, so all email come from my forum are left to right, but not it is nessary to html mails becuase PunBB not mail engine.
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