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truncated HTML email from communicate module

August 10, 2007 12:44pm

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  • #1 / Aug 10, 2007 12:44pm

    stephlivsey

    16 posts

    Not sure if anyone else has had this problem or if anyone knows what’s going on…but, I sent a HTML email from the communicate module to two different email addresses.  When I viewed the email from my mac email account, everything looked just the way it was supposed to.  However, when I viewed the exact same message in my Yahoo! email account, more than half of the message was truncated…any ideas???

  • #2 / Aug 10, 2007 12:51pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    Moved you to the tech support forum, stephlivsey, as the Modules forums are for third party issues and development.

    1) What version and build are you running?
    2) Are you using Yahoo original or Yahoo beta email?

  • #3 / Aug 10, 2007 12:52pm

    Lisa Wess

    20502 posts

    If I had to guess, and I do since I don’t use Yahoo mail =) I’d guess that it didn’t like the code.  Can you view the source of the mail and see where it truncated? That would be a good starting point.  Also, how long was the email, including code? Perhaps Yahoo has some sort of limit.

  • #4 / Aug 10, 2007 1:01pm

    stephlivsey

    16 posts

    Thank you both for the fast responses; the current build is 1.6.0, build 20070627.
    I am using Yahoo original.

    The truncating is happening at about line 53 of 156 lines of code; nothing unusual there, just a paragraph break.
    Thanks.

  • #5 / Aug 10, 2007 1:02pm

    Lisa Wess

    20502 posts

    Can you try updating to the latest build before we proceed, and see if that helps?

  • #6 / Aug 10, 2007 1:04pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    I would recommend updating to the latest build; yours is about a month behind, and while this particular issue will not be impacted, there are a number of significant bug fixes and improvements.

    Have you tried the email in Yahoo Beta?  When testing EE’s email handling with various mail agents, we have to test against what is current, and the development direction that third parties are moving.  Yahoo’s Beta email parsing is dramatically different in what it allows and expects to see in HTML emails, and as they are not continuing development on the original, it is the one we have to target to try to support.

    As a followup, are you supplying alternate plain text content?  I believe that may have better success with the older mail client.

  • #7 / Aug 10, 2007 1:26pm

    stephlivsey

    16 posts

    Hmmm, very interesting…I just checked the message in Yahoo Beta, and it looks just fine; just the way it should.
    I’ll go ahead and update to the latest version/build.

    Thanks!

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