Bulk Invite Message Garbled

tisawyer · January 14, 2020, 11:00pm

The bulk invite message is not displaying well in users email clients. Notice the strange breaks and missing text.

Here the Invite Message I point invited users to. I’m putting 5 in the third csv column.

https://community.allstarlink.org/t/community-faq/5

Here’s a screen capture of what invited users see in their email.

**And this is the Raw display of above **

Original-recipient: rfc822;tisawyer@me.com
Received-SPF: pass (magent1172.usmsc04.pie.apple.com: domain of
 0100016fa5e60b09-9c372431-102b-48bc-91a8-7c32a527f3b8-000000@amazonses.com
 designates 54.240.48.95 as permitted sender)
 receiver=magent1172.usmsc04.pie.apple.com; client-ip=54.240.48.95;
 helo=a48-95.smtp-out.amazonses.com;
 envelope-from=0100016fa5e60b09-9c372431-102b-48bc-91a8-7c32a527f3b8-000000@amazonses.com
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:11:54 +0000
From: AllStarLink Discussion Groups <noreply@community.allstarlink.org>
Reply-to: AllStarLink Discussion Groups <noreply@community.allstarlink.org>
To: tisawyer@me.com
Message-id:
 <0100016fa5e60b09-9c372431-102b-48bc-91a8-7c32a527f3b8-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Subject: Tim Sawyer (wd6awp) invited you to 'Community FAQ' on
 community.allstarlink.org
MIME-version: 1.0
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Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
Auto-submitted: auto-generated
Feedback-ID: 1.us-east-1.ROKMZOczrVo/BLxlQOEjYMkzfyD3RNkv01TjPZL4+jg=:AmazonSES


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Tim Sawyer (wd6awp) invited you to a discussion

> **Community FAQ**
>
> Welcome to the AllStar Forum and Email Server AllStarLink Community is the new app_rpt-users email list and forum. Community is both an email server and forum software. You can use it in either or both modes.  If you p&hellip;

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> AllStarLink Discussion Groups -- Discussion for all matters related to AllStar

If you're interested, click the link below:

https://community.allstarlink.org/invites/f49e8789bffdb86181fe4ff011876632

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Chaboi_3000 · January 14, 2020, 11:25pm

This is a ux topic, not a bug.

simon · January 15, 2020, 12:36am

I think the issue is that there are two block quotes in the User Invited to Topic. You can see the template that’s used if you go to your Admin / Customize / Email page and search for “Invite Mailer.”

Possibly the default display of this email should be improved. You can also try customizing the template so that it displays the way you want it to. To remove the block quotes, you would edit the template to remove the > characters from the markdown. To remove the excerpt, edit the template to remove the
%{topic_excerpt} tag.

The email template’s preview window gives you a good idea of what the sent email will look like, but it’s also a good idea to test any changes you make with a throw-away email address.

tisawyer · January 15, 2020, 5:28am

That’s very helpful. Thank you!

codinghorror · January 15, 2020, 11:47pm

This is displaying correctly as designed.

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