[TYPO3] direct mail plain text not working

[dave typo]

I've seen some extensions that allow rendering of plain text to be
compatible with templavoila. For example, rss_tv_text (Text Pages for
TemplaVoila).

however, I have gotten the plain text and regular text to work together. Once.

it seems that the problem is that the newsletter page is sending
before the job begin notice is sent, and the job end notice is sent.

So for an example my recipients get
Newsletter at 9:00 am,     then I get
Job begin 9:01 am
Job end 9:02 am

the one that worked was something like this:

Job begin 9:00 am
Newsletter at 9:01 am
Job end 9:02 am

i think this may be a problem with invoking the mailout.
And I also get an issue with the boundaries. However, when it worked I
did not include the static boundaries in the template configuration.

ALSO, my recipients get this message :


<!-- Cached page generated 02/03 2007 11:40. Expires 03/03 2007 11:40 -->
<!-- Parsetime: 246 ms-->

parsed only as plain text - despite both HTML and plain text options being set.

Any ideas? I have a lot of variables here, but any suggestions to try
out to try and minimize , or isolate a few would be greatly
appreciated.

thanks again,

-dave

On 3/1/07, Thorsten Kahler <thorsten.kahler at dkd.de> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> dave typo wrote on 01.03.2007 10:37:
> > I am using typo3 version 4.0.4 and direct mail 2.2.0.
>
> good to know...
>
> >
> > the frontend newsletter page is html based, how would I display it as
> > plain text? In other words, I have not seen plain text working in the
> > frontend, mainly because I don't know how to view it. It probably
> > doesn't though.
> >
>
> You already found the correct chapter in the documentation but probably it's
> not straight forward enough. Maybe you can express it more precisely?
>
> <cite>
> In order to configure the rendering f your newsletter pages in plain text,
> include static template "Direct Mail Plain Text" on the TS Template
> applicable to the pages. This static template contains a pre-defined
> template for plain text content rendering and makes it accessible as page
> type 99. You may thereafter configure the template to your needs in the
> template.
> </cite> [1]
>
> 1) Install static template "Direct Mail Plain Text"
> 2) Append "&type=99" to the URL to take a look at the plain text version of
> the newsletter page.
>
> >
> > I set my format parsing as &print=1, because I am using templavoila,
> > but when it is &type=99, it doesn't work either.
> >
>
> Some problems using direct mail with templavoila were reported before.
> Search the archives. [2]
>
> Regards
> Thorsten
>
> [1]
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/direct_mail/2.2.0/view/4/5/
> [2] http://lists.netfielders.de
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