[TYPO3-english] Direct Mail – sending html newsletters

[Stig Kjeldsen]

Hi Lorenz

"The missing flag" is a classic one :-)


if using tt_address, this configuration will automatically set the flag:
In Page TSconfig:
TCAdefaults.tt_address.module_sys_dmail_html = 1

/ Stig Kjeldsen


Den 16-03-2011 22:44, Lorenz Ulrich skrev:
> Hi Sara
>
> For your information: I just tested sending a HTML mail to a static list
> of FE users. It works fine.
>
> I think you have a misconfiguration. Is it possible that your users
> don't have the flag "Send direct mail as HTML" set? If so, no mail will
> be sent (if type of mail is HTML only) even if you have recipients in
> your list.
>
> You might change all of them at once with a MySQL query
>
> ALTER TABLE fe_users SET module_sys_dmail_html = 1;
>
> To have it enabled by default, you could use a hidden field in the
> sr_feuser_register template (name=module_sys_dmail_html, value=1) or
> maybe (not tested) use
>
> TCAdefaults.fe_users.module_sys_dmail_html = 33
>
> FYI, I normally work with "From pages" lists, and I'm sure know that the
> tree types "From pages", "Static list" and "Plain list" can send HTML
> mails.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Lorenz
>
>
>
> Am 16.03.2011 19:32, schrieb Sara Weale:
>> This was reported:
>>
>> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=17724
>>
>> The newsletters are only sent out as plain texts and not html when using
>> a static list.
>>
>> This seems to be the only alternative to 'plain list' (which obviously
>> we do not want to use as we require html emails) when importing a
>> website usergroup into a recipient list.
>>
>> I hope this is clearer.
>>
>> Sara
>>
>> On 16/03/2011 17:12, Lorenz Ulrich wrote:
>>> Hi Sara
>>>
>>> Please be a little more exact about what doesn't work. What Forge
>>> issue are you reffering to?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Lorenz
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 16.03.2011 17:58, schrieb Sara Weale:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> We cannot send html formatted emails out using the ‘static list’ (this
>>>> has been reported as a bug but there is no solution as yet). We are
>>>> using sr_feuser_register to register users and have setup Direct
>>>> Mail to
>>>> import the relevant usergroups into a static list.
>>>>
>>>> As we are now extremely frustrated that we cannot send out information
>>>> to our registered users, before I give up completely and go outside of
>>>> Typo3 for this service, can anyone suggest an alternative way of
>>>> importing the frontend usergroups into a suitable Direct Mail list
>>>> so we
>>>> can send out both text and html newsletters?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>> Sara
>>>>
>>>
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