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Farewell

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I announce that I cease all development and activity in the programming universe indefinitely. My career has reached the turning point I was not expecting for at least another year, leaving me highly off guard and without laid-out plans for this hobby's continuity. I have begun a 5-year residency program in Neurosurgery which is clearly not compatible, time-wise, with programming.

I gave in all my passion for developing, and you gave me back your loyalty and trust, even when I did not deserve that much. Now it is the time for payback. I release all my present and past work as Open Source software, in the hope some talented developer will continue maintaining and expanding my vision of a modern, sleek forum software. The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.

I hereby thank Euan, kawaii, andrewjs18, Ben, Matt, Omar G., effone, Eric J., Devilshakerz, Wildcard, JordanMussi and all the other team members I have had the opportunity to work with when I was a MyBB team member. I thank Tomm M, my mentor, who inspired me to pick up coding with his piece-of-art plugins. And finally, I thank all of you MyBBoost subscribers who have helped me getting through my toughest university years economically.

Yours sincerely, Filippo

HTML mail over plain text

9 Sep 2017
#1
Hello,

I am struggling with this issue for quit a while now ...
I would like to get rid of the boring plain text automated mailing which is included into mybb.

I attended the question on the mybb community forums, but nobody seemed to get an answer to it ... In this stage I can only change the mail templates but not the way how it looks like because CSS and HTML markup is excluded in plain text mail headers.

kind regards
zyra 11 Sep 2017
#11
I will share it with you m8 ;)
let's figure out how that PM system works :p
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Eldenroot 11 Sep 2017
#12
I sent you a PM with my email... thank you very much!
Eldenroot 12 Sep 2017
#13
@zyra - do you use html templates for all notification emails (PM, buddy request, etc)?

P.S. thank you for your email!
zyra 16 Sep 2017
#14
Until now I am only using it for notifications of new posts in subscribed topics... I could extend it to all kinds of mails and I am also intended to do so ... but need to find the time first.
Eldenroot 17 Sep 2017 Edited
#15
I applied core changes (thx @Shade) and add my CSS and html into lang file. Unfortunately the css part is missing in sent emails :( Any clue? I use MyBB Patches plugin mentioned above :/

EDIT: Here is my code:
https://jsfiddle.net/Eldenroot/11tuuaq7/37/
Shade 17 Sep 2017
#16
Watch out for changes applied by Patches, you need to wrap each line into quotes and add the dot (".") operator to join them.
Eldenroot 17 Sep 2017
#17
@Shade - hmm, thank you for your reply. Anyway I tried again without "Patches" - applied changes manually into functions.php file. Same result :( not working css. Can you please check briefly the code provided above if it is fine? I am lost :( Thank you!
Shade 17 Sep 2017
#18
Should be fine. However, consider that email providers differ in their CSS syntax support. Check this page and play around with it.
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Eldenroot 24 Sep 2017
#19
I tried everything, css part is not added into email. I use SMTP over Gmail, maybe is that the issue?
Eldenroot 7 Oct 2017
#20
@Shade - please, can you write me how to wrap each line and join them together? Maybe there is an issue (I must doing something wrong). Thank you very much!