[SOLVED] Mail Problem

link data in signature, no search made, only security mods made and removal of <br> tags

I believe this requires html, but thats not entirely expected here. Mabe it should add its own html like submitting news or submitting a story would. I noticed submitting news also kills those line breaks too, but I don't mind that. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not overall. So, I confirmed this with a test mail to myself:

hello

hello

hello

became: hello  hello hello

I ran into this problem before. it got fixed. The old file or code might have sneaked into the update by accident... or it could be something else.

What version of eFiction are you using? Do you have the latest patches? Did you mod it in any way.

Were you able to send e-mails/messages with line breaks before?

We'll need a link to your site as well. And I think this belongs in the bugs forum.

Um... I don't think it's been modded although I did have someone make a skin for it but by someone who ran an efiction site too and had the skin on their efiction site but if my memory serves correct it didn't work before that either.  I plan on dumping the skin as I've found a couple other's in the skin forems I like better.  I am currently using 2.0 but have downloaded and plan to update it to 3.2 just haven't updated it yet but I am running 3.1 on a testing site and that even mails stuff wrong.

Link to site: http://www.perfectfanfiction.com/

Sorry I didn't know this was a bug problem!  I thought it was just me and maybe someone knew what I did wrong.

In the list of allowed tags, are <p>, <br> and <br /> listed?

With 3.1 it should work.

Try submiting it once, checking to see that it's missing the breaks, and then editing and submitting again without changing anything. I know that some html, like links <a href=""">" don't show up the first time and you have to submit two times for it to change properly.

In my 2.0 these are the listed tags: <strong><em><br></br><blockquote><strike><font><b><i><u><center><img><a><hr><p><ul><li><ol><strong><p>

In my 3.1 the box for these tags was empty so twice I entered them and twice it said action successful yet when I opened the box it was empty and everything still mails out: testingtestingtesting

You can use phpMyAdmin to edit your settings to put those tags in there, but if you're editing your settings and it's not saving I'd say you've got other problems.

I have been continuously brousing the forums hoping that maybe someone else had this same problem and found someone that had a tinyMCE problem and had it always disappear which mine did also.  Reading it further found this code:

tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: "advanced", language: "en", browsers: "msie, gecko, opera", plugins: "advhr, advimage, advlink, contextmenu, preview, searchreplace, paste, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, separator, sub, sup, charmap, separator, center, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, styleselect, formatselect, separator, bullist, numlist", theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut, copy, paste, pastetext, pasteword, separator, undo, redo, separator, link, unlink, advimage, advhr, cleanup, help, preview, code, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons3: "", extended_valid_elements: "a[name|href|target|title|onclick]", theme_advanced_status_location: "bottom", theme_advanced_resizing: "true", theme_advanced_path: "false" }); 

Which once entered seemed to fix my mail problem as I've tried it three time and it worked perfectly. 😀

Thank you to everyone who helped and this can be logged away as solved!

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