I recently revamped a client site and, since then, his newsletter has a thick black border around the whole thing. There's nothing in the ST settings setting it to black. I also went into phptemplate_simplenews_newsletter() and put in a dsm($node) right before it returns it and there's nothing in there setting a border / background to black, either.

I'm really at a loss as to where to look from here. The site theme changed and now has black sidebars. Could that somehow be leaking through into the newsletter? I don't see how the CSS of a site could possibly affect the emails it sends out but I'm grasping at straws.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Michelle

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Z2222 commented

If you check the HTML source of the message do you see two opening <body> tags? I'm seeing that in my emails.

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michelle
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If I view the source, it's all encoded so I have no idea. At the point where I added the dsm, it looked fine.

Michelle

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Z2222 commented

Are you on Linux? If you copy the encoded text into a text file and then run this command on it, it will decode it:

$ base64 -d your-encoded-text.txt

There' also an online decoder here:
http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Decode/

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Whoah... Got some interesting results from that. Most of the HTML looks fine, once I ran it through Tidy. But up at the top is a section an HTML comment that starts with "Plain HTML Version" which looks like it contains the CSS from the theme. I don't know anything about how emails interpret HTML but it seems to be using that somehow. Do you have any idea how that got in there and how I can get it out? The emails should not have any CSS from the site in them. They are just plain white other than colored links, which I specified in the template's style section.

Thanks,

Michelle

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Z2222 commented

If you don't run it through tidy does it look ok? I'm wondering because I see an HTML document embedded in an HTML document in my emails and I'm wondering if Tidy is stripping that out.

See also:
http://drupal.org/node/321871

I tried this quick solution, but it centered everything and I haven't figured out how to un-center it yet:
http://drupal.org/node/121849#comment-915852

(not able to decode the email yet)

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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

It's there from the start. Tidy isn't putting it in. I'm saying the HTML after that looks just fine.

Looking at #321871: MimeMail adds the CSS of the theme that's used while editing the node and that's likely it. Marking this one as a duplicate and I'll follow up there, thanks. I searched in the Simplenews Template queue but didn't realize it was a Mime Mail problem.

Thanks for the pointer,

Michelle

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@guitarmiami - Thanks a ton! Shredding that mime mail theme function did the trick. I never would have thought to look there if it wasn't for you. I had no idea mime mail did anything except encode it as HTML. Doh!

Michelle