For Newsletter Made Simple it would be very useful to have the ability to attach a file or files. Also to be able to send a message as both HTML and as Plain Text. The Plain Text option would have to be another textarea for inputting. Of course this would be even better for at some stage to include
a. being able to import a CSV file which also includes a users preference for either HTML or Plain text the default being HTML
b. Being able to set up users preferences or when they subscribe to ask for it
c. recognizing existing user preferences for content type and then email the appropriate format
Newsletter Made Simple Ability to Attach A File Or Files + HTML & Plain Text
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Re: Newsletter Made Simple Ability to Attach A File Or Files + HTML & Plain Text
these options are on the feature request list. Unfortunately, I'm busy trying to line up, and working on paid projects. Maybe you, or your client could sponsor some enhancements?
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Re: Newsletter Made Simple Ability to Attach A File Or Files + HTML & Plain Text
Hi calguy1000
Re sponsoring then maybe depends on how much but remember I am a one man band!!! I could write this myself but it would be in Perl not PHP!
I would have thought adding the Plain text facility so there are 2 textarea inputs shouldn't be that big a deal (not the user preferences part) so that the recipient gets sent a Content-Type: multipart/alternative message and what shows up in their email client is however they have it configured. Same goes for attaching a file. (Not sure about this but I seem to remember that for multipart messages including file attachments the Content-Transfer-Encoding has to be set to 7bit not 8bit but it is a while since I did this.)
Also I noticed in the testing I have just been doing that if you are using TinyMCE editor and insert an image it does not put in the absolute path and therefore when it is sent the user of course cannot see it whereas the FCK editor does. Of course one could just use a base href tag in the HTML template but it would avoid possible confusion if it worked as FCK. Or you could of course add to the sending script to check for any href tag of href="uploads" and then add the full URL before uploads but not the best solution.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Re sponsoring then maybe depends on how much but remember I am a one man band!!! I could write this myself but it would be in Perl not PHP!
I would have thought adding the Plain text facility so there are 2 textarea inputs shouldn't be that big a deal (not the user preferences part) so that the recipient gets sent a Content-Type: multipart/alternative message and what shows up in their email client is however they have it configured. Same goes for attaching a file. (Not sure about this but I seem to remember that for multipart messages including file attachments the Content-Transfer-Encoding has to be set to 7bit not 8bit but it is a while since I did this.)
Also I noticed in the testing I have just been doing that if you are using TinyMCE editor and insert an image it does not put in the absolute path and therefore when it is sent the user of course cannot see it whereas the FCK editor does. Of course one could just use a base href tag in the HTML template but it would avoid possible confusion if it worked as FCK. Or you could of course add to the sending script to check for any href tag of href="uploads" and then add the full URL before uploads but not the best solution.
I look forward to hearing from you.
