Title: Problems with :start and :end
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problems with :start and :end

 *  Resolved [allandoane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allandoane/)
 * (@allandoane)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-start-and-end/)
 * I have recently been seeing my start and end tags included in my posts.
    I think
   they are appearing in the posts because they have been modified to “: start” 
   and “: end”.
 * I put the tags on myself, and I am certain I do it right.
 * The emails are sourced from gmail, if that’s any help.
    Thanks, Allan
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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-start-and-end/#post-3687601)
 * Can you send a sample email to [postie-test@devzing.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-start-and-end/postie-test@devzing.com?output_format=md)
   and I’ll take a look.
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-start-and-end/#post-3687848)
 * Thanks for the sample.
 * What is happening is that the colon (:) is getting formatted differently than
   the “start” or “end” resulting in an email that looks like:
 *     ```
       <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">:<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">start</div>
       ```
   
 * Even in the text version of the email the colon and start are on separate lines.
 *     ```
       :
       start
   
       Dear
       ```
   
 * You need to ensure that there aren’t any formatting changes in the :start and:
   end lines.

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 * Last reply from: [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-start-and-end/#post-3687848)
 * Status: resolved