[development] HTML emails

Wed Jul 16 09:46:37 UTC 2008

There's a patch here that's not had much attention for over a year but would
provide better support in core: http://drupal.org/node/28604

You should also look at http://drupal.org/project/mimemail

Nat

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Omar Abdel-Wahab  wrote:

> +1
>
> I strongly would love to have D7 send HTML e-mails.
>
> At least 20 modules will benefit from this step.
>
> Omar
>
>
> Matt Connolly wrote:
>
>> I haven't looked at drupal 7 yet, so I'm throwing this out there for
>> discussion.
>>
>> The D6 mail api seems like it's pretty much designed for plain text
>> emails, however, a module's implementation of hook_mail can clearly set the
>> headers of the mail to "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" and send
>> rich text.
>>
>> For example, I'm looking at using "forward" module for the "email this
>> page" link on a node, and the "simplenews" module, which uses "mimemail" to
>> send rich emails, including attachments. Both "forward" and "mimemail"
>> modules create a html header.
>>
>> The problem occurs when a module implements "drupal_mail_wrapper()" to
>> build a html header when hook_mail has already done that - you can easily
>> end up with bodies like:
>>
>> <!doctype... <-- from drupal_mail_wrapper()
>> <html>
>> <head>...</head>
>> <body><div....
>> <!doctype. <-- from hook_mail()
>> <html>
>> <head> ... etc.
>>
>>
>> Because there are two opportunities to create the html "head" for the
>> message: in hook_mail and drupal_mail_wrapper.
>>
>> I'm throwing this out there for discussion, I think that the hook_mail
>> should construct the message in a similar fashion to the Form API,
>> specifying a theme for rendering the body part of the message (ie what goes
>> in the <body> tag) and anything special that needs to go in the head as
>> attributes.
>>
>> That way the message can be constructed only once.
>>
>> Besides, email clients have been HTML friendly for a *long* time, so I
>> don't see why Drupal shouldn't have an interface that understands rich email
>> messages.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
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