I would say
1. Your email client is really old and doesn’t support what you’re trying to do or
2. Your email is missing the header “Content-Type: multipart/mixed;” .. hard to say without actually seeing the headers.
Jason, thank you for your input.
The mail client is the latest version of Windows Live Mail, and for other emails it does render HTML.
I do see the form at gmail so I suppose it could be the darn client.
I will try Thunderbird as the client next.
The full message source is as follows,
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Subject: A comment from Richard Tomkins
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:00:17 +0000
From: "richard.t.tomkins@gmail.com" <richard.t.tomkins@gmail.com>
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AHA!
Windows Live Mail does not show the HTML cforms formatted form.
GMAIL in a browser shows the HTML cforms formatted form.
Thunderbird shows the HTML cforms formatted form.
Reminiscent of the way Internet Explorer 5 rendered web pages years ago.. you could either code your page correctly and not have it display in IE, or code it badly and break everywhere else. <sigh> Microsoft
I’m having the exact same problem. I’m not quite sure if this issue was caused by the new plugin or if it was already an issue of the original one. Can anyone confirm this? I did a quick comparison of their lib_email.php files and see some differences.
Original one was fine. Seems to be this one.
shansta,
Would you kindly elaborate on what you are talking about.
Your statement does not provide any insight into the current problem.
I think it has something to do with how the headers are being generated. I’ve been trying to fix this for the past couple of hours now with no luck. The headers are being generated from the mail_header() function of lib_email.php. By the way the original plugin used the mail() function and this one uses wp_mail() which accepts the header parameter as an array.
So another problem with Windows Live is that attached files won’t display. The first issue was somewhat okay since you can just unchecked “Enable HTML” and use plain text, but not being able to see attachments was a major problem for me.
I finally gave up on fixing it for now and decided to use the old lib_email.php file from the original plugin and renamed the class to “cforms2_mail”. Surprisingly it worked and fixed the issues I mentioned.
I’m not quite sure about the ramifications of doing this so I won’t recommend it for now as other parts of the plugin might break. I hope the author can give input regarding this. I’ll do further testing tomorrow.
jomsky
If I follow you, you have replaced a library in the current cforms II plugin with a library from the former and now discontinued cforms plugin and the transmission of multipart/alternative now results in the cform being properly displayed visually in Windows Live Mail as a form?
My response was to jomsky who stated “I’m having the exact same problem. I’m not quite sure if this issue was caused by the new plugin or if it was already an issue of the original one. Can anyone confirm this?”
Up until last week the old cforms showed correct html format in Windows Live Mail. Updating the plugin doesn’t display the html format correctly in WLM.
I have been using the old cforms for fours year, until I realised someone has been injecting code to the header, and I assumed via the old cforms ajax. And this has happened on two sites that are both using the old cforms plugin.
I’m rebuilding a website that used the old cforms.
The site owner did not maintain their security. By the time I got all the code, every single PHP file on the site was infected with a giant chunk of obscure viral code, rendering everything useless for the move.
I loaded the SQL into a database and I am extracting posts, pages and more from the SQL to rebuild.
To the current maintainer of cforms II, I will gladly make a donation to the cause if you would kindly fix this problem with multipart/alternative failure in Windows Live Mail.
Will you be fixing/repairing this problem?
I will fix it as soon as I have the time.
