Bulk Email/Newsletter IPB

[KiloKilo]

We use IPB 2.1.7.

I was making the newsletter for our forum and had it all nicely set up.
But when testing the newsletter I noticed that all not of the styles (NOT ALL) were not taken care off. For a moment I was puzzled why the IPB Post Office would only allow certain styles and not others. After sending the newsletter again but without HTML support, I saw that IPB altered the document so that all the styles beginning with a point did not work. I tried putting double points with those styles and it worked. IPB only deletes the first point.

So short for me a simple adjustment of the styles did the trick;

From;

<style type="text/css">
body {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	color:#03182d;
	}
p {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	color:#03182d;
	}
.meer{
	float:right;
	}
.H1 {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:14px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#03182d;
	background-color:#5da1d7;
	}
.H2 {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:14px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#5da1d7;
	background-color:#03182d;
	text-align:center;
	}
</stles>

To;

<style type="text/css">
body {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	color:#03182d;
	}
p {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	color:#03182d;
	}
..meer{
	float:right;
	}
..H1 {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:14px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#03182d;
	background-color:#5da1d7;
	}
..H2 {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:14px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#5da1d7;
	background-color:#03182d;
	text-align:center;
	}
</styles>

Altough it worked in the end I have the feeling this is small but regretful mistake of the IPB script somewhere.
Until the time it is changed I know the double-dot will do the trick.

[Si.]

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[KiloKilo]

No help needed, just trying to report a semi-bug and a semi-solution. Just posted in the wrong section I guess. Feel free to move the thread.

[Justin]

Did you post it to the correct place?

[KiloKilo]

... Just posted in the wrong section I guess. Feel free to move the thread.

To MOD: please move

[N0valyfe]

Caution

(Windows only) When PHP is talking to a SMTP server directly, if a full stop is found on the start of a line, it is removed. To counter-act this, replace these occurrences with a double dot.

<?php

$text = str_replace("\n.", "\n..", $text);

?>

Quoted from php.net http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php, so it isnt an ipb bug