Newsletter won't send in HTML

[pixelpadre]

You know...........I have said this in every non zencart tech forum I have been to. There should be an easy link to paypal for each tech support guru such as yourself dr byte. Good answers get a buck. It isnt much but it would add up at the end of the year with all the answers you give out.

[pixelpadre]

Perhaps your signature should contain something like:

If my answer saved you time please send $1.00 to my paypal account.

[DrByte]

You know...........I have said this in every non zencart tech forum I have been to. There should be an easy link to paypal for each tech support guru such as yourself dr byte. Good answers get a buck. It isnt much but it would add up at the end of the year with all the answers you give out.

Well in that case, click here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...es&pages_id=14

Then click on one of the donate buttons that has two or three zeros in it

[pixelpadre]

signature man...signature...and your personal account not a group account. All techs should do it. It would encourage prompt replies and competition for great answers. ............not that they need to be improved.

[DrByte]

signature man...signature...and your personal account not a group account.

Noted. And thanks. Nevertheless my preference is that the donation go to the group account.

Will give some thought to the signature change concept.

[pixelpadre]

Noted. And thanks. Nevertheless my preference is that the donation go to the group account.

Will give some thought to the signature change concept.

Here's a forum that is doing precisely what I would like to see yall doing.

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[cowboyfred]

To sum up, and consolidate everything into 1 post -

To increase the chances of emails sent from admin as HTML actually arriving as HTML, particularly to webmail based email systems such as hotmail, yahoo mail, gmail etc.; and to allow test newsletters sent to the admin email address to arrive as HTML, do the following:

Copy /includes/extra_configures/email_use_8bit.php to /admin/includes/extra_configures, so that both folders have a copy of the file.
Replace /includes/functions/functions_email.php with the attached copy, which incorporates DrBytes' suggested changes.

Chuck

I was having the same issue that my newletters were not sent in html with pics and links. just letting eveyone know that i just installed the above (posted earlier in this thread with the download) and it works!!

[SHK]

Gmail wouldn't display the HTML-portion of my order confirmations.
The supplied functions_email.php took care of it though.

Will this fix be part of the next version of Zen? (post 1.38a)
Just want to know if I need to save the file for future use.

Best regards

[cleverpork]

Chuck,
Instead of the hacks you suggested, does this work correctly?
/includes/functions/functions_email.php
find this code:

      if (ADMIN_EXTRA_EMAIL_FORMAT == 'TEXT' && substr($module,-6)=='_extra') {
        $email_html='';  // just blank out the html portion if admin has selected text-only
      }

add this directly below it:

      // if no customer email record found, and admin email format is set to HTML, and sending newsletter, and admin is logged in, use HTML:
      if ($customers_email_format_read->RecordCount() == 0 && ADMIN_EXTRA_EMAIL_FORMAT == 'HTML' && in_array($module, array('newsletters', 'product_notification')) && isset($_SESSION['admin_id'])) {
        $customers_email_format = 'HTML';
      }

Thanks for this post! Worked exactly as said! This is great!

[Redcinamn]

Hey guys,

I uploaded the zip file fix and (save a copy on server and local) went to the index page of the site after uploading and saw this:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare zen_mail() (previously declared in /home/tyler/public_html/shop/includes/extra_configures/email_use_8bit.php:41) in /home/tyler/public_html/shop/includes/functions/functions_email.php on line 41

any idea what I did wrong? anyone else had this problem?
~Renee