I’ve installed a fresh copy of EE Personal 1.6.1 on two different sites and was hoping to be able to send out some HTML emails but I’ve encountered some bugs (on both installs), both of which seem to be fixed very simply.

First, when I go to add email addresses to a list, I get a MySQL error about the ip_address field not existing in the exp_mailing_list table.  It’s easy enough to fix though, I just added a varchar(50) field called ip_address to that table, but it seems like something that should have already been done.

Secondly, on a site I set up yesterday I was messing with the email preferences and changed it to send out HTML formatted emails.  I go to send an email it it gives me an “Unable to send email at this time.” error.  I check it today, and it works fine.  Plain text emails work immediately. but it seems for some reason it takes several hours or a day for the HTML email setting to work properly.

ejectmedia,

The missing column in the DB was a bug affecting new installs that has been fixed in the next build.  You are right it should have been already done.

In the second case I’m wondering if you are sending out email through SMTP or through PHP’s sendmail implementation (another setting). 

Settings take affect immediately and something like switching email encoding type isn’t going to be something that will take hold over time.  I think its much more likely that the server was having an intermittent issue with either it’s SMTP server or sendmail.

In the case of SMTP some SMTP servers refuse to send mail unless it has been checked by the same account recently.  Is it possible something like that was involved?  We may move this out of Bug Reports if that is the case as I think it might be something you need to troubleshoot with your host.

Jamie

That may in fact be the case, with my web host.  Regardless the problem fixed itself.  Since the other problem is already known about and resolved, feel free to move this out of the bug report section.

Glad to know it has worked itself out.  Further evidence its probably not a bug.

Jamie

Actually, that bug regarding the missing column was fixed with the build immediately following the release of 1.6.1 back at the beginning of December.

I could have sworn I just fixed it in the install script last week…

Jamie

Hm, I was thinking of the update bug having to do with MySQL giving us an unexpected result.  This bug, I see, after looking at the Subversion logs, occurred because a change Jones made overwrote my local copy so I never committed my own change to the install file.  How irritating.

So, I guess this bug will be fixed when the next build is released.

ejectmedia - can you let me know if the recent builds have covered your issues, please?

Thanks!