Investigate html formatting features

I've just removed the call to drupal_html_to_text() for now. -> Updated to next dev snapshot and try again.

fago, is the removal of drupal_html_to_text() likely to be permanent?

cindyr #1
Try mimemail module using action: Execute custom PHP code. Tested this with good results.

mimemail(
  'info@example.com', 
  'you@example.com', 
  'Title: '. $node->title,
  node_view($node), 
  $plaintext = NULL, 
  $headers = array(), 
  $text = NULL, 
  $attachments = array(),
  $mailkey = ''
);

My tests were on 6.x with the latest dev snapshots of Mimemail (Sep-21) and Rules (Oct-3) -- also installed were the ususal, cck, views, etc. as there were reports of misbehavior but I had no such problem. I am now using this combo on a production site. Eeechhh!

HTML in e-mail imho is probably a better solution for emailing cck / node content second to the pure text option but it's broken :(

Maybe Rules needs to have it's own mail preparation function/s.

hm, or mimemail could provide an appropriate action for rules

That would be nice, don't know about the chances of that happening real soon.
Do you have any objections to a "Send in HTML" option (admin or action?) w/ a hook_mail_alter() for htmlizing?

no, as long as the code is simple and so easy to maintain.. :)
If it's not, I prefer to have this only in a separate module.

@Rules developers: Would you like to integrate Mime Mail for the email action?

Do you have any objections to a "Send in HTML" option (admin or action?) w/ a hook_mail_alter() for htmlizing?

@Chris Herberte: If you already have this figured out, this would make for a good documentation page. Since the handbook is broken, I would suggest using this issue to start with.

I'm a bit confused. Does this mean that we *can't* use any HTML formatting features as-is at the moment?

II'm using PHP code to develop an e-mail, but I can't seem to create any line breaks. This includes using drupal_html_to_text("<br />"); to try and do so.

subscribing... mostly...

not sure if this is same topic of of any use.. but i use "send tokenized email" and it doesnt add LF's.. don't get me wrong.. i LOVE Drupal.. :).. it paid for my shiny new sports car.. and is paying for my house.. but boy.. it sure sucks at email!!

in the past i have always had to add phpmailer to get smpt auth so i could go through my isp's mail server for my devel setup, i would then hack phpmailer to and add this:

  //clean up our email a bit by filtering for CR and URLs
  $mailer->Body = _filter_autop(_filter_url($mailer->Body,0));

to use drupal's build in url/CR filters to do the right thing for emails.. not sure if that helps here, maybe just adding mimemail does the trick (although last i checked it didnt play nice with smtp auth)

yea, from initial post here:

It also lists at the end of the node:
[1] url of node
[2] url to user/author

what the hell's that?? lol.. been trying to sort out where that is coming from; thought it was some odd thing my isp mail server was doing. actions didn't use to do that so didn't think it was from rules module.

why can't i add url's in my email; even plain text emails can handle that.

i just added htmlemail module and it lokos like things are a bit better; some CR's likely could get it to work but still need to stop the silly url pulling thing and tacking at end of email.. that makes this pretty much useless as it is.

yay.. fixed...

perhaps what's being discussed above, but took less to time to find and hack than to post here.. i am not one to prefer hacking a module; but not sure of any other way to fix this, anyway, i guess not rules that was doing this but token.module

i made this mod in token_actions.module at line 139:

//$params['body'] = drupal_html_to_text(token_replace_multiple($context['message'], $context));
$params['body'] = token_replace_multiple($context['message'], $context);

and i now have perfect email.. finally.. :)

@liquidcms: This is a fix for token_actions? I ask because the rules documentation advises not to enable token_actions.

I think token_actions out of place at the moment and it's worth reconsidering whether it should be a part of token module, a separate module, or exist in rule's module integration. I'm not sure how I want to proceed with that, but this issue would probably help in figuring that out.

Support for token_actions actions has been dropped - there are better equivalent actions shipping with rules, so rules hides the others now.

@mime-mail:
Support for mime-mails makes definitely sense. If easy enough, we could just add an option to the send mail action. If the code becomes more complex, I'd prefer an extra action, ideally shipping with the mime-mail module.

@HTML:
We could also add an option, that says "treat text as HTML" or so, which means it uses the function again and converts the html to text.

Marked #195584: HTML formatting in message? as a duplicate of this issue.

patch adding mime-mail actions in #501722: HTML mail actions for Rules

Resolving this issue and #114699: Diff module should support Token may satisfy #655296: Allow access to revision deltas.

Marking as duplicate of #501722: HTML mail actions for Rules.

As a bonus, that issue is marked as 'needs review' :)

Updated component.