I tested this whith a virgin install. But anyway I was checking for gdpr compliance, etc and I noticed a issue in the footer. Which seems to be in the language files mailer.php In particular the top 4 keys in the raw zip file:
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$ubbt_lang['EMAIL_HEADER_TEXT'] = "{$config['COMMUNITY_TITLE']}<br>----------------------------------<br>";
$ubbt_lang['EMAIL_HEADER_HTML'] = "{$config['COMMUNITY_TITLE']}";
$ubbt_lang['EMAIL_FOOTER_TEXT'] = "This email was auto-generated. Please do not reply.<br><br>Manage your email preferences:<br>{$config['FULL_URL']}/ubbthreads.php?ubb=editdisplay<br><br>Update your forum profile:<br>{$config['FULL_URL']}/ubbthreads.php?ubb=editbasic<br><br>";
$ubbt_lang['EMAIL_FOOTER_HTML'] = "This email was sent by <a href=\"{$config['HOMEPAGE_URL']}\">{$config['HOMEPAGE_TITLE']}</a>.<br>To control which emails we send you, <a href=\"{$config['FULL_URL']}/ubbthreads.php?ubb=editdisplay\">update your email preferences</a>.";
But after a net new install I get in the language file in the cp: Ca't seem to copy paste the key with the text so will manually enter it
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EMAIL_HEADER_TEXT <br>----------------------------------<br>
EMAIL_HEADER_HTML
EMAIL_FOOTER_TEXT This email was auto-generated. Please do not reply.<br><br>Manage your email preferences:<br>/ubbthreads.php?ubb=editdisplay<br><br>Update your forum profile:<br>/ubbthreads.php?ubb=editbasic<br><br>
EMAIL_FOOTER_HTML This email was sent by <a href=""></a>.<br>To control which emails we send you, <a href="/ubbthreads.php?ubb=editdisplay">update your email preferences</a>.
So what happens when you send a email from the site what is displayed in the footer is first no community title and the link to change your preferences is a relative url which will not redirect the user. Attached two images of the email
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okay what I am trying to say is when a email is sent to a member. The footer is missing the community title. Then the 2nd line in the footer has a url to take the customer to their preferences. The problem is the link only has /ubbthreads.php?ubb=editdisplay Without a ttl.
So you can't in the email click on the link to take you to a site to change you options. I tested it on three 7.7.3 sites as well as a net new install.
The only way to make it work is to edit the language file and add the leading part of the URL
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for the urls, my screenshots show nothing unique from 773 and 774 beyond the fields being rearranged and placed within their relevant pages and grouped accordingly.
For thrills and giggles what does this site have in the language file mailer.php for EMAIL_HEADER_TEXT EMAIL_HEADER_HTML EMAIL_FOOTER_TEXT EMAIL_FOOTER_HTML
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TEXT: is the first half of the email source. this is displayed if the email client is set to TEXT ONLY, or cannot display HTML. this method is not common, but is still provided.
HTML: is the second part of the email source. this is displayed when the email client can display html in emails. this is the modern way if displaying email and is most common.
if you open an email to view its true source (not the web page source), you'll see that there are two versions of the email. first is TEXT, followed by HTML
the email client usually displays the HTML version if it can.
You may remember way back prior to 2005, in early forum software, there would be a user option to manually select "email type: text only. html only." In modern email clients, the client is usually who chooses this.
Furthering the case of using only plain text emails, either the recipient would have turned HTML off for incoming emails, or someone at their company or email host has. There are some companies that have strict no-HTML policies for security and privacy reasons.
Okay back to the language file Mailer.php EMAIL_FOOTER the entry is
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This email was sent by <a href=""></a>.<br>To control which emails we send you, <a href="/ubbthreads.php?ubb=editdisplay">update your email preferences</a>.
How is someone supposed to navigate to a site from a email if that is all it has in the footer. The link in the footer has /ubbthreads.php?ubb=editdisplay Thats it no http and or domain name.
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i guess what your asking for is that the TXT version be displayed without the <br> and instead us /r and /n
as for the <a> in the TXT version, they should not be there because they are HTML and thats not whats being requested.
maybe im missing something thst youre trying to point out, since.i dont have a desktop computer today, and am trying to assist you through a mobile phone 🤔
I think you are on the right track now. How would I test the SMARTY Template Engine
The issue may be that smarty tags are being used within the language files, and processed (or ignored). Where what should be use instead, are %%SUBSTITUTIONS%%.
If this is the case, then its a long standing issue within the language files, and definitely will be fixed on the next ubbt release.
But i'd like to research this first to confirm it. Your documentation above is helpful in doing that.
Great. It seems like it was the placeholder that referenced using the $config values that made it bark. In the language files there were like 8 items as I recall that I found. I fat fingered them in for now.
Thanks again.
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Doing a grep, I came across 34 of them. It took an entire day to rewrite the language string configuration substitutions in to the script files. Apparently, adding {$config[]} strings directly within the language files has been a thing since before I came on board with the coding in 2014. Though, prior to 2010, Ian and Rick really did a good job of keeping those things under control.
I recall over the years that it was hit or miss on them some sites worked some did not and some versions worked and some did not. But I fixated on just the email footer I am happy to see another bug squashed.
Great support.Guy
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