Comments on: Using Drupal's mailhandler module

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:27:40 +0000

Hi, Klaus.

Are you sending HTML or rich text formatted email? If so, you want to be sure to include a format directive in your message. The mailhandler doco says that Full HTML is best:

http://drupal.org/node/39172

Of course, you’re saying that filtered HTML looks better. That makes me wonder what other formatting is built into your message. What email client are you sending from? Have you tried making sure that the message is going as plain-text?

On the Taxonomy side, the forum should be:

the “term” in the “forums” vocabulary that was automatically created when a forum named “My Forum” was created (see Admin->Categories).

http://drupal.org/node/38943

This worked in my install.

By: klaus

klaus — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:24:01 +0000

Hi,
I’m using Mailhandler only for submissions. However I couldn’t adjust the Drupal filters to display emails in an acceptable way. So the site only works in a fashion. Aplying a filter that does no filtering at all displays all emails quite nice, but then the drupal theme gets kind of broken, colours are changing and colums distorted. Filtered HTML works best but many nodes still look bad. Also the default commands
taxonomy: [Forum]
do not take the nodes into the forum sections. This may be due to my poor understanding of Taxonomy.

Well, don’t want to waste your time, if you can give me some hints, I’ll be happy to work myself though this stuff…..

regards

Klaus

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:30:17 +0000

Hi, JK. I hear what you’re saying. Unfortunately, mailhandler won’t make it that simple. I did find this in the documentation though:

Also, in the headers of the email, if you put

In-Reply-To: nid=5

then the email becomes the new version of node 5. I’m told that there’s a way to take it down to the level of comments, presumably by using In-Reply-To and the comment id#, but I haven’t checked that.

My recommendation would be to use the comment_notify module. That would send an email when there are new comments with a link for replies.

By: JK_Drupal

JK_Drupal — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:04:37 +0000

Hi!

I would like to ask if I were to reply via email (comment) to a node, how will mailhandler know that my e-mail is meant as a comment for that node?

Apart from writing commands, is there any other way? Because it is unlikely my members will want to write commands just to reply via email (comment) on a node.

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:12:07 +0000

Glad it helped, Doug! And thanks for posting the note about taxonomy.

Perhaps the drupal gods will fix this in rev 6 (just installed it locally but haven’t played with it too much yet).

By: doug

doug — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:40:14 +0000

Thanks! This post saved me lots of time getting mailhandler up and running. One thing to add: I found that the “taxonomy:” command can only put things into existing categories. At the moment, it seems that you can’t use mailhandler to create new terms, even if you’re using free-tagging.

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:54:16 +0000

Link to an Indonesian Drupal article appears above (not comment spam).

Makasih, bro!

By: Ha–Dhiku–suma Wahab

Ha–Dhiku–suma Wahab — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:05:00 +0000

[...] Salah satu fitur adalah setiap user yang terdaftar dalam web ini harus mendapatkan notifikasi imel jika terdapat content terbaru. Dan juga sebaliknya, user harus bisa melakukan posting melalui email untuk masuk sebagai content di web. Hal ini penting jika server down atau malah user lebih suka interaksi melalui email. Hal ini bisa dilakukan dengan module workflow dan actions. Atau video tutorialnya yang detail bisa dilihat disini. Untuk bisa mengirim imel module smtp harus diaktifkan terlebih dahulu. Dan untuk menerima posting dari email bisa menggunakan module mailhandler. Tutorial mailhandler bisa dilihat disini. [...]