Your simplenews issue: read this first

First of all, good luck for your PhD thesis. Thank you for letting us all know of your whereabouts. :)

Thank you for this nice module which is already very useable.

You certainly noticed, I created many feature requests myself, last month. I was helping Marnia from http://www.reuniting.info/newsletter to move from her previous newsletter service (my newsletter builder .com) to simplenews. As we went along, she commented and asked questions, about things she was missing from her previous service (but she's happy to use simplenews as it is, for now). I wanted to give you feedback by letting you know how a normal admin would feel about some features (most of which will not break your road map you've recently outlined). Unfortunately, I really cannot commit myself to provide some patches, at least not now, because I have other commitments, too. But there's no hurry.

Basically, I'm just replying to say thank you. Finish your studies first: we'll still be here when you come back!

:)

How is your thesis going?

Do you expect to be back soon?

thanks.

If you want a quick hack to use mimemail as mail sender, simply edit simplenews.module.
Delete the function 'sn_mail_send', roughly from line 1030 to 1044, and replace it with this version:

function sn_mail_send($mail) {
  	$mail->to = trim($mail->to);
	$sender=$mail->from_address;
	$recipient=$mail->to;
	$subject=$mail->title;
	$body=$mail->message;
	return mimemail($sender, $recipient, $subject, $body);
}

Make sure you have the module mimemail installed and activated of course, and set its preferences.
The main advantage is that the html newsletters are sent mime-encoded now, meaning that people who have their email client set to 'plain text' see a text version of your HTML newsletter, instead of a jumbled mess.
It does a lot of other cool things, but you can check the readme for that.

If I want to send emails with accents in french language, how can I proceed... I tried using MIME MAIL, but still the email is not well encoded it seems... Also the problem is with the contact form and simplenews as well... any ideas about how to encode the emails properly???

Thanks

As another alternative, I use SMTP to send my e-mails, which requires the following in your includes directory:

phpmailer.inc
/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php
/phpmailer/class.smtp.php

Then you can add the following (plagarised !) code to replace the function sn_mail_send ...

/**
* Mail engine - replaced by Dominic on 17-July-2006 to use SMTP
*				This is a simple modification of the user_mail_wrapper function from phpmailer.inc, which
*				seems to do the trick for me.
*/
function sn_mail_send($mail) {
  if (variable_get('smtp_library', '') && file_exists(variable_get('smtp_library', ''))) {
        include_once './' . variable_get('smtp_library', '');
        $mailer = new PHPMailer();                 // instantiate a new mailer
        $mailer->IsSMTP();                         // send via SMTP
        $mailer->Host     = "your.host.com";     // SMTP server
        $mailer->SMTPAuth = FALSE;                 // turn off SMTP authentication - or ON, depending on what you want !
        $mailer->Username = 'x';		     // SMTP username
        $mailer->Password = 'x';                    // SMTP password
        $mailer->AddAddress(trim($mail->to));                // can only send to one recipient 
        $mailer->From     = $mail->from_address; // from address (default root@localhost)
        $mailer->FromName = $mail->from_name;    // from name (default 'root user')
        $mailer->Subject  = $mail->title;
        $mailer->Body     = str_replace("\n", "\r\n", $mail->message); // Body of message
        if(!$mailer->Send()){
                watchdog('error', 'mail send error: ' . $mailer->ErrorInfo);
                return false;
        }
        return true;
  } else {
        watchdog('error', 'mail send error: no smtp_library specified');
        return false;
  }
}

comments from #3 onwards are not related at all to this issue.
Can you open separate issues to carry on your discusion?

Meanwhile, I still hope DriesK's thesis is going along well :).
Good luck with it.