When sending HTML emails, Simplenews generates a plain text alternative. This works based on a display mode "Email: HTML text alternative" which means that the admin has to configure correct display settings for this mode on every content type - and remember to keep it up to date if fields are added.

Mail transports such as swiftmailer also can generate a plain text alternative. Swiftmailer does it very well without any extra work for the admin. However swiftmailer won't generate the plain text alternative alternative if it is already present.

Simplenews should have an option on admin/config/services/simplenews/settings/newsletter to disable generation of plain text alternative.

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#12 simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-12.patch7.09 KBadamps
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AdamPS created an issue. See original summary.

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Title: UI option to disable generate of plain text alternative » UI option to disable generation of plain text alternative
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Version: 8.x-1.x-dev » 8.x-2.x-dev

In fact the email_textalt view mode is never used. The plain text alternative is generated using email_plain. That makes sense really - it would be a lot of extra work to define view mode settings separately for plain mails and mail text alternatives.

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Status: Active » Needs review
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new simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-4.patch3.88 KB
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Issue tags: +Plan to commit
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Issue summary: View changes

I raised #3151779: Remove unused display mode email_textalt for the unused view mode.

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Version: 8.x-2.x-dev » 3.x-dev
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Issue summary: View changes
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new simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-8.patch4.93 KB
new simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-interdiff-4-8.txt2.5 KB

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 8: simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-8.patch, failed testing. View results
- codesniffer_fixes.patch Interdiff of automated coding standards fixes only.

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Status: Needs work » Needs review
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new simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-10.patch5.61 KB
new simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-interdiff-8-10.txt591 bytes

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 10: simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-10.patch, failed testing. View results
- codesniffer_fixes.patch Interdiff of automated coding standards fixes only.

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Status: Needs work » Needs review
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new simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-12.patch7.09 KB
new simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-12.patch7.09 KB

The last submitted patch, 12: simplenews.plain-text-alt.3037128-12.patch, failed testing. View results

  • AdamPS committed eec186c on 3.x 
    Issue #3037128 by AdamPS: UI option to disable generation of plain text...
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Status: Needs review » Fixed
Issue tags: -Plan to commit

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.