Help! Newsletter drama

GosfordHosting.com · May 8, 2007

Hello all,

I have just finished my first newsletter, looks great in the newsletter preview, in fact looked so good I emailed it out to all my clients.

As I am registered I got my own newsletter, all it is is the html text in a big block, totally unreadable, here it is:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 541px; height: 502px"><tbody><tr valign="top" style="background-image: url('../images/theme/news_underline.jpg')"><td style="width: 1000px; height: 57px"> <img src="../images/theme/bubble_logo5.jpg" border="0" alt=" " width="177" height="59" align="top" /></td></tr><tr><td style="width: 1000px; height: 57px">May 2007 - Dictate Australia - NewsOlympus Release New ModelsOlympus have released a new range of digital voice recorders to replace some of the older models, like the DS-2 and DS-2200. The new models boast a great new look, upgraded stereo microphones and increased memory capacity.The new models are the <a href="../olympus-ds-30-digital-voice-recorder-ds30-p-75.html" target="_blank">DS-30</a>, <a href="../ds40-olympus-ds-40-digital-voice-recorder-p-76.html" target="_blank">DS-40</a> and <a href="../ds50-olympus-ds-50-digital-voice-recorder-p-74.html" target="_blank">DS-50</a> and can be viewed on our site <a href="..//">www.dictate.com.au</a> At present I have basic information on the new models on the website and hope to add more details and specifications in the next few days.Some new lower range models have also been introduced, namely the <a href="../olympus-vn2100pc-digital-voice-recorder-vn-2100-p-77.html" target="_blank">VN-2100PC</a> and <a href="../olympus-vn3100pc-digital-voice-recorder-vn-3100-p-78.html" target="_blank">VN-3100PC</a> both priced under $260 they are aimed at the lower end of the market.Did you know ....We also run an online transcription service. Looking for someone to transcribe your digital audio? Need someone to cover when your typist is away? .. we can help. We have a large team of transcriptionists located all over Australia. For more information on our transcription service email me at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> - Fast, Secure, Accurate & Confidential.</td></tr><tr valign="middle" style="background-image: url('../images/theme/news_overline.jpg'); height: 57px"><td style="width: 1000px; height: 57px">If you do not want to receive occassional emails from us please email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or login to your account and select "Subscribe or unsubscribe from newsletters" under My Account Information.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Instead of looking like the nice newsletter preview :-(

Please, anyone got any ideas why this would happen ? Off now to send the apology emails ...

Thanks

Dave.

GosfordHosting.com · May 8, 2007

OK

I got the HTML working ...

I changed the following in ./admin/includes/modules/newsletters/newsletter.php

From:

$mimemessage->add_text($this->content);

To:

$mimemessage->add_html($this->content);

BUT although that now makes my emails more readable the graphics do not show !!

When I look at the graphic properties in my received email I have relative links for the location of the graphics files, eg:

./images/theme/logo.jpg

When what I really need is:

http://www.mydomain.com/images/theme/logo.jpg

HELP ! again ... :-)

Hello all,

I have just finished my first newsletter, looks great in the newsletter preview, in fact looked so good I emailed it out to all my clients.

As I am registered I got my own newsletter, all it is is the html text in a big block, totally unreadable, here it is:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 541px; height: 502px"><tbody><tr valign="top" style="background-image: url('../images/theme/news_underline.jpg')"><td style="width: 1000px; height: 57px"> <img src="../images/theme/bubble_logo5.jpg" border="0" alt=" " width="177" height="59" align="top" /></td></tr><tr><td style="width: 1000px; height: 57px">May 2007 - Dictate Australia - NewsOlympus Release New ModelsOlympus have released a new range of digital voice recorders to replace some of the older models, like the DS-2 and DS-2200. The new models boast a great new look, upgraded stereo microphones and increased memory capacity.The new models are the <a href="../olympus-ds-30-digital-voice-recorder-ds30-p-75.html" target="_blank">DS-30</a>, <a href="../ds40-olympus-ds-40-digital-voice-recorder-p-76.html" target="_blank">DS-40</a> and <a href="../ds50-olympus-ds-50-digital-voice-recorder-p-74.html" target="_blank">DS-50</a> and can be viewed on our site <a href="..//">www.dictate.com.au</a> At present I have basic information on the new models on the website and hope to add more details and specifications in the next few days.Some new lower range models have also been introduced, namely the <a href="../olympus-vn2100pc-digital-voice-recorder-vn-2100-p-77.html" target="_blank">VN-2100PC</a> and <a href="../olympus-vn3100pc-digital-voice-recorder-vn-3100-p-78.html" target="_blank">VN-3100PC</a> both priced under $260 they are aimed at the lower end of the market.Did you know ....We also run an online transcription service. Looking for someone to transcribe your digital audio? Need someone to cover when your typist is away? .. we can help. We have a large team of transcriptionists located all over Australia. For more information on our transcription service email me at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> - Fast, Secure, Accurate & Confidential.</td></tr><tr valign="middle" style="background-image: url('../images/theme/news_overline.jpg'); height: 57px"><td style="width: 1000px; height: 57px">If you do not want to receive occassional emails from us please email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or login to your account and select "Subscribe or unsubscribe from newsletters" under My Account Information.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Instead of looking like the nice newsletter preview :-(

Please, anyone got any ideas why this would happen ? Off now to send the apology emails ...

Thanks

Dave.

May 8, 2007

You need to use the absolute url for the images e.g: http://www.mydomain.com/images/theme/logo.jpg as opposed to /images/theme/logo.jpg. This tells the recipients email client what directory of what server to look in for the images. In your message the email client knows what directory to look in but not what server.

You should edit your email, change all the urls from relatative to absolute then send yourself a copy before sending it out to your customers.

GosfordHosting.com · May 8, 2007

Hey thanks for that, but unfortunatly it was buried deep in the tinyMCE code. Luckily I found an easy way to force tinyMCE to use absolute instead of relative for newsletters URLS.

in the ./admin/newsletters.php file I added the following into the tinyMCE.init section:

convert_urls : "false"

and that did the trick :-)

You need to use the absolute url for the images e.g: http://www.mydomain.com/images/theme/logo.jpg as opposed to /images/theme/logo.jpg. This tells the recipients email client what directory of what server to look in for the images. In your message the email client knows what directory to look in but not what server.

You should edit your email, change all the urls from relatative to absolute then send yourself a copy before sending it out to your customers.

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