Offer escape characters to include mail-client URL tokens, etc. [#1293824]

This issue came up when I tried to include a "forward to friend" link in a Vertical Response email.
The code from VR is like

<a href="{VR_F2AF_LINK}">forward to a friend</a>

so, when the href attribute gets emogrified and absolutified, the VR token gets totally busted, and we end up with

<a href="http://example.com/{VR_F2AF_LINK}">forward to a friend</a>

which doesn't work at all.

Enews should offer an escape sequence, and since VR uses curly braces (which are invalid URL characters), these are the obvious choice.
Patch forthcoming.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#1	enews-mailer-tokens-1293824.patch	807 bytes	aaronbauman

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aaronbauman

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commented 28 September 2011 at 17:47

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new	enews-mailer-tokens-1293824.patch	807 bytes

OK, so these don't actually work like "tokens": if a curly-braced token is found in place of a URL (ie. as a href, src, etc. attribute) the token will just be ignored.
In other words, the curly braces will remain intact -- which are necessary to send to the mass mailer (VR) -- but the base url won't get pre-pended.