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Several possible bugs in CiviMail
July 02, 2008, 11:04:07 am
I'm setting up and testing a new CiviMail install (2.0.4) and have run into a few things. I want to confirm if others have experienced any of these issues:

  • I had an issue with one email getting cut off in the middle of the body text. Turns out it was because there was an apostrophe in the text, which apparently was not escaped, and thus broke the text chunk. Once removed, the full copy was sent.
  • There are issues trying to have a hyperlinked email within the body of the email. The link builder automatically adds and http:// prefix, which breaks the mailto: link. It doesn't appear to be possible to add the html directly within the wysiwig body area.
  • If you advance to the test page (4) in the wizard, and then return to the previous page, the email content is gone. Sort of defeats the purpose of having a "previous" button, and makes the concept of a test page less useful.

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Re: Several possible bugs in CiviMail
July 03, 2008, 01:29:41 am
Brian,

I had an issue with step 4 where the mail contents were not being saved to the db. After a lot of experimentation, db renormalisation, reinstallation and general hair pulling I resolved by upgrading my CMS from J! 1.0.15 to 1.5.3. Details are here http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,3473.0.html

So.. the point here is that I understood that the message contents are stored to the db when moving from step 3 > 4. Moving back from 4 > 3 the page should look at the db and retrieve the stored value. Have a look in PMA and see what is happening...

Hope this helps a little

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Re: Several possible bugs in CiviMail
July 03, 2008, 06:49:01 am
Henry,

Interesting. I'll try porting back the changes referenced in that other email. The system does save content to template, so my workaround has been to simply save every email as a template. I can go back, reload, tweak, and update template when advancing to the test screen.

I mostly work with J1.5.x now. Ironically, this is the only installation of CiviCRM that I have running on J1.0.x.

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Re: Several possible bugs in CiviMail
July 04, 2008, 03:13:41 am
Brian,

I tested your three points.
  • Couldn't replicate the apostrophe issue
  • Link issue, this was a related to dojo editor. Now in 2.1 we moved on to smoother editors like FCK editor and TinyMCE.
  • I've created an issue for missing email content http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-3278

Thanks
Pankaj
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