Hi,

Firstly - this is a great module - it has allowed me to essentially use my site to manage a group of students taking two papers - but I have a small question. I am using the development snapshot 6.x-1.x-dev and it all seems to work fine. Im using an embedded FCKeditor on the form and then simply sending mail (in html format) to the group. This all goes well and the mail is sent - apparently in html format, and is displayed in that most unforgiving of clients - Outlook. What I have noticed however is that whatever my formatting attempts the mail appears to be formatted to a fixed width. I may be wrong, but I thought that html mail removed this restriction and allowed the mail to flow in a re-sizeable client window?

Im sure this has something to do with how Drupal is post processing / filtering the submission but I dont know enough about Drupal to know if this is the case, or know how to fix it! Any guideance would be gratefully received. On another matter - is your module designed to use an embedded WYSIWYG editor - or would it be better to create the hlml external to the browser and paste it into a regular text box? If this is the case do you have any recommendations about the best ecternal editor to use? - I was thinking of simply trying to use a highly standards compliant client like Thunderbird - what do you think?

Thanks for your help,

Kind Regards

Geoff Tothill.

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skydoc’s picture

skydoc commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

I have been playing with Input filters this evening and now have beautifully formatted HTML mail sent to users. What is interesting though is now the node that is generated does not seem to be properly formatted. It simply appears in plain text - if I edit the node that is produced - and open FCKeditor I see plain text. Simply pasting the original message into the rich text editor box and saving the node results in a properly formatted node.

Is this by design? Should the node that is generated have html formatting or is this stripped out prior to node generation?
Thanks for any guidance.

oadaeh’s picture

oadaeh commented

I have made some significant changes to the way the 5.x branch processes HTML e-mail and handles filters. I plan on moving those changes into the 6.x branch, but I'm out of time this week and won't be able to get back to it until Monday or Tuesday. If you can wait until later next week, I would recommend doing so, as it will be totally different then.

skydoc’s picture

skydoc commented

No problem - I can certainly wait and have it working of a fashon. Have a good weekend - Ill look to see how things are going mid next week. Thanks for your reply!

mrtoner’s picture

mrtoner commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

Still trying to clean up the issue queue -- I suppose this has been resolved in the last 20 months.