Email Address Confirm not actually confirming in NMS

[brainpoo]

Some promising finds Alex.

My character set is 'iso-8859-1' is there a different character set I could try?  you sound much more capable than I att his Alex. 

[brainpoo]

Well I did the manual change to it as well, and youa re most indeedily correct,t hat is the problem.

So how do I get NMS to send out the email with the correct URL?

[calguy1000]

I last tested on CMS 0.13, and NMS 1.0-beta3 the same as you.  again, for me, everything worked fine.

calguy1000, can I ask you - what version of NMS are you using?
Im using NMS 1.0beta3 (the files from the other post you made) on a CMSMS 0.13 install with CMSmailer 1.73.9.
Maybe you are using a different version, maybe a csv thing ? Just a thought...

calguy1000 please 

brainpoo --> I know.

Alex

[brainpoo]

Calguy, did you see the what alex discovered about what is causing the problem?  Any idea why that is???

Shawn

[brainpoo]

I'm almost thinking this must have to do with a setting in CMSMailer... because maybe it's cleaning up the stuf to make it HTML complient...

[brainpoo]

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=12846

Just trying to research what exactly is causing this.

Tried it in Firefox and Safari so far and neither work.  Are you by any chance using IE? i will give it a try in IE and see if it works in there...
Does the same thing in IE... so it's either that the browser cannot read the html for the & (&) or that it could and the site can't acept it.  I'm not sure.

Do you get the & in your URLS calguy?  if not, then why are we getting it?  And if you Do get it in your URL's why then, do they not work for us but work fro you?  I'm terribly confused.

[calguy1000]

I'm in Canada, using FF 1.0.8 on Fedora core 4
and  here's what I got in the email:

Hello Robert.
Someone, hopefully you, has subscribed your email address to the following newsletters:
* test1
* test3
If this is correct, please click the following link to confirm your subscription or copy and paste the link into your web browser. Without this confirmation, you will not receive any newsletters. http://svr.techcom.dyndns.org/index.php ... 27&page=27 If you did not sign up for this newsletter you do not need to do anything, simply delete this message. Thank you!

and yes, this link works.....  and I get the second confirmation email too

[lexan]

Hi guys.

Thank you for trying to find the solution to this problem - I've been trying too, and I've found something interesting today.

brainpoo, I think you are partly right about the CMSmailer module. See below.

I was using the smtp mailer method - apparently that is part of the problem so I changed it to the mail method instead - and that made a difference as to the danish letters - the servers must be setup with different languages ?

Back to the smtp mailer method.

* The message is sent in text/plain -  if I change that manually to text/html in class.phpmailer.php settings- the message is formatted as text (!) but the confirmurl is formatted correctly, and is NOT clickable... btw, shouldnt that be the other way around ?

Soooo, I played around a little with the cmsmailer module, but came to the decision that I better not - there are other modules that uses cmsmailer. I could make either the text right or the link right - not both at the same time.

So I tried my english webmail and THERE the message is formatted right (but no danish characters) and the confirmurl is correct too - until I click it !
Then it changes the darn "&" to "&" again !

calguy1000... beeing the one who have made this nice module (no sarkasm here) and cmsmailer too and have used hundreds of hours doing it, can you from what Ive been finding see what is possible wrong?

Obviously its a language thing - the module is otherwise working perfect !

I'd very much like to "donate" some money for your time trying to solve this problem.

Just make a sound 

Regards Alex.

[brainpoo]

So it appears you do not get the &, and we are.

I to am in canada, on Firefox 1.5

There's got to be a simple fix for this that we're just not seeing.

shawn

[kevin360]

I've found the same problem here (the & works and the & doesn't).  What I've found is that it depends upon my e-mail client that I'm using.  If I subscribe my Yahoo account then everything works fine.  If I subscribe to my regular e-mail account (which is on the same machine that is running CMSMS) and pull that e-mail up in my e-mail client (Sylpheed) then it does the & and won't work.  So I don't think it's a matter of the CMSMailer or your smtp mailer, because I've got a situation where the e-mail is going through the same settings in CSMMailer, through the same smtp mail program (Postfix) and whether it works or not depends upon the client that I read the e-mail in.

I think probably the NMS module isn't recognizing & as & and that's causing the problem.

[lexan]

Darn, I just wrote 20 lines of proof for you to see, but made the ()//¤#%¤"# - thing (backspace) before I could save.

BUT the meaning was this.

The old ver 0.75 works like a charm - the new one don't.

I installed cmsms0.75 on a nms0.13 and it works !
I installed the nightly build of cmsms on a 1.0beta5 nms- and it makes the same errors in the URL and the same two fields don't update in the admin (usersettings) (tho there is a bug report on it). And there are a few more bugs.

So it must be the darn new module making those & instead of just &.

calguy1000 look into this, otherwise it will only work for you english guys.

Thanks to brainpoo and calguy1000 for trying to help me on this.

Regards /Alex.

[lemkepf]

The reason for this is .75 was written by me and was basically written to do just one job. Then i slacked off... and calguy picked up the project and basically rewrote it from scratch using new stuff in the core. Hence the major differences in the versions. Just thought i'd let you know...