[ZendTo] HTML Email

Wed Mar 8 18:58:32 GMT 2017

Karl,

Me likes!

That's simpler than what I originally had in mind, as you specifically 
are not embedding the image files. It does however mean that recipients 
who aren't displaying remote images have to click the "fetch the images" 
button in their mail client, which isn't *quite* as nice.

But if people are happy to live with that as a compromise, I should be 
able to work this in very easily.

BTW If you haven't spotted it yet, there's a bug in the way the "you 
haven't picked up your drop-off and it's about to expire" reminders are 
generated. Currently that means the URL to reach the download page is 
missing the "https://your-zendto.company.com/" off the front of it. So 
the links in the reminders don't work. The original messages sent out 
when the drop-off is created are fine, it's just the reminders when no 
one has picked up that drop-off at all, and it's about to expire.

You can work around that by just hard-coding the start of the URL in 
dropoff_email.tpl.
You need to replace "{$zendToURL}" with something like 
"https://zendto.your-company.com/" or whatever is appropriate for you.

I'm thinking about a solution to this...

Cheers,
Jules.

On 08/03/2017 18:43, Karl Bundy wrote:
>
> Jules,
>
> All I did was create the new email template, added a new function to 
> the NSSDropbox.php file (see below) based on the existing deliverEmail 
> function, then changed the NSSDropoff.php file to use the new function 
> and new template.  I did not embed/attach the image files, just set 
> the URL in the HTML template.  There are more sophisticated ways to 
> send HTML email, but the Mail function has the basics to get the job 
> done.
>
> //*!/
> / @function deliverEmailHTML/
>
> / Send the $content of in an HTML formatted email message to (one or 
> more) address(es) in $toAddr./
> /*//
> /public function deliverEmailHTML(/
> / $toAddr,/
> / $fromAddr,/
> / $subject,/
> / $content,/
> / $headers = ""/
> /)/
> /{/
> /// If it contains any characters outside 0x00-0x7f, then encode it/
> /if (preg_match('/[^\x00-\x7f]/', $subject)) {/
> / $subject = 
> "=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode(html_entity_decode($subject))."?=";/
> /}/
> /if (preg_match('/[^\x00-\x7f]/', $fromAddr)) {/
> / $fromAddr = 
> "=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode(html_entity_decode($fromAddr))."?=";/
> /}/
> /if (preg_match('/[^\x00-\x7f]/', $this->_emailSenderAddr)) {/
> / $sender = 
> "=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode(html_entity_decode($this->_emailSenderAddr))."?=";/
> /} else {/
> / $sender = $this->_emailSenderAddr;/
> /}/
>
> /// Add the From: and Reply-To: headers if they have been supplied./
> /if ($fromAddr!="") {/
> / $headers = sprintf("From: %s", $sender) . PHP_EOL ./
> /    sprintf("Reply-to: %s", $fromAddr) . PHP_EOL ./
> /    $headers;/
> /}/
>
> /// Add the MIME headers for 8-bit UTF-8 encoding/
> /$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".PHP_EOL;/
> /$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".PHP_EOL;/
> /$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".PHP_EOL;/
>
> /return mail(/
> / $toAddr,/
> / $subject,/
> / $content,/
> / $headers // JKF Commented out for now due to security concerns ,/
> / // JKF Commented out for now due to security concerns/
> /  // '-f "'.$fromAddr.'"'/
> /  );/
> /}/
>
> --- Karl
>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] *On 
> Behalf Of *Jules
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 08, 2017 11:19 AM
> *To:* ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to>
> *Subject:* Re: [ZendTo] Use different AD attribute
>
> Karl,
>
> Yes, I agree this would be nice. I basically haven't had time to sort 
> it all out. As I need to make the message a multipart MIME structure, 
> the email templates get a *lot* more complicated.
>
> What did you have to change except for any templates/*.tpl files?
> Any changes you make to the *.tpl files will *not* be overwritten when 
> you upgrade later.
>
> So any hints you've got as to what I need to change in order to 
> support the massively more complex MIME messages, please do let me know.
>
> Thanks!
> Jules.
>
> On 22/02/2017 16:58, Karl Bundy wrote:
>
>     Jules,
>
>     Thanks for all of your ongoing work on ZendTo, it has been a huge
>     benefit for our team, and to the whole user community!
>
>     A feature request that I would love to see is the option for HTML
>     formatted email notices.  They give a bit of polish to the system
>     and oddly enough seem to give our users a bit more confidence in
>     the system.  I have hacked our instance to send HTML formatted
>     emails (see screenshot below) and I while what I have works fine,
>     it would be great if this type of functionality was built-in to
>     the system so that I don’t have to add back this functionality
>     anytime we do upgrades.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Karl
>
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