PopFetcher Woes

[Guest]

First, this whole project is splendid!

My big need is posting by e-mail as I will be posting from a sailboat 1000 miles offshore.

I have installed the 4/2004 popfetcher plugin, and it works fine, except (a) it leaves vast tracts of white space at the end of a message and
(b) if it encounters HTML + same message in plaintext, it displays both, which it should not do.

As a java-head, I'm reluctant to get into php reprogramming, but I'd appreciate any suggestions!

[Cayenne]

That was me up above. You can see the site at www.actinav.com/cblog

Now that I have looked a little closer at the issue, I am wondering whether this is, in fact, a failure of the the main program to parse the HTML properly rather than a fault of the Popfetcher.

I guess the initial question is, which application is responsible for proper formatting?

[garvinhicking]

You should really send your mails in plaintext format only, not in HTML mode. HTML-multipart mails are really not that cool

Regards,
Garvin

[Cayenne]

Thanks garvin! I am beginning to learn that.

Now that I think of it. the system I'll be using to mail from the boat will only handle plain text.

Nonetheless, even with plain text, I seem to get a bunch of extra lines.


In any case, it's a darned cool thing you have done

[garvinhicking]

The reason for your extra lines may be because of your mail client using \r\n newlines. Try to tell it to send unix-style \n linefeeds only.

The only other method I'd know of is to disable the nl2br Serendipity Markup plugin - or check if you accidentally installed it twice?

Regards,
Garvin

[Cayenne]

Golly, I am starting to lose faith in Microsoft Outlook!

Could it be possible that Bill Gates is not an all-seeing and all-knowing benevolent developer? Could it be that there are alternatives?

I must ponder these things.