0013662: Provide option to edit textmessage after automatic generation from html

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0013662

phplist

HTML Email Support

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11-03-08 12:49

11-03-08 12:53

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bas

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normal

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feature

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random

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new

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open

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2.11.X

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Summary

0013662: Provide option to edit textmessage after automatic generation from html

Description

There are and will always be various issues with the automatic generation of the text version of the email.

A solution would be to offer a separate editor for this version.

Additional Information

Michiel Dethmers wrote:
> Well,
>
> phplist has the "manual text part" function, and also, the test email is
> sent twice, so considering the amount of other "wouldn't it be nice
> if..." things, I'd put this low on the list, albeit, put it in mantis
> under "phplist" and we might get to it once/when we have an army of coders.
>
> Michiel
>
> Ben Holliday wrote:
>
>> Hi Michiel,
>>
>> We discussed the problems with plain text versions autogenerated by
>> phplist a while back (there's a client issue open about this somewhere
>> on Mantis - I couldn't find it tho)...
>>
>> Saw this today which is interesting...
>> http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2008/02/new_feature_automatically_gene_1.html [^]
>>
>>
>> This is probably what we ought to consider doing as well. It auto
>> creates the text only version but then lets you edit before you send..
>> this solves problems with content being in the wrong order or
>> presentational markup/elements slipping through the filter.
>>
>> Ben

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related to	0005476	new		USE_MANUAL_TEXT_PART and content from [URL:<url>]
related to	0004057	resolved	michiel	Text version of HTML email problems: Space before paragraph; > appended
related to	0009046	closed		conversion of HTML to text URLs doesn't function if the url contains the character ~ (tilde)
related to	0007867	closed		stripHTML function sometimes does not parse all href tags
related to	0003559	closed		auto parsed text version of RSS messages doesn't have the URL of an item

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