Newsletter won't send in HTML

[Chuckl]

DrByte,
I'll give it a try shortly and report back.
I have been intentionally calling it a hack, because it's just that - brute force code to handle a special case, and I'd much rather the default code catered for and removed the special case. Not that too many people have first or last names of 'ADMIN', but you never know...

Chuck

[DrByte]

Valid points.

My proposed change doesn't rely on the word "admin" in the email address. Instead, it depends on the specified email address *not* being tied to any existing customer records.
Note when sending out newsletter emails, you have the option to send to the email address of the currently-logged-in administrator. As long as this email address isn't already tied to a customer in the store, this approach will allow HTML messages to be sent by default when testing sending the newsletter to the admin.

Of course, if there *is* a customer record with the same email address as the administrator, all you need to do is edit that customer's preference for email format, and you're also all set.

[Chuckl]

DrByte,
Yes, that seems to work fine. I'd purposely avoided any reference/use of ADMIN_EXTRA_EMAIL etc as it was referenced only in the context of the admin copy emails, and I felt any change in that was best left to the developers.
Thanks,

Chuck

[DrByte]

Great. This alteration will find its way into a future release ...

[Chuckl]

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

[paul3648]

Chuck and Dr. Byte,

I've just applied the latest patch file and run a test again on my Yahoo account and received the HTML newsletter correctly, so all seems to be fixed.

Thanks!

[Chuckl]

Thats great to hear! Thanks for the feedback

Chuck

[austy25]

Thank you very much it works great :)

[hollygds]

Thanks everyone for assisting with this! The fix works for me as well!

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[tbrides]

hi,
Dont know if anybody is following this thread still :)

i applied the fix. but it didnt seem to work for me.
i have the mod for newsletter only subscribers installed , so the problem may lie there.
is anybody willing to look at the file for me if I PM them?

thanks,
Tom