Problems Importing Mail With Post By Email, support questions for Post By Email Pro Options

[iba]

With loaded i mean that , after the mail is send, i can find the attachment in the media/postbyemail folder, but it is not shown in the article. The only thing i see ( beside of the text) is the link to the attachment. Mime settings are ok.
I'll send an email.

thx
iba

What do you mean: "loaded"? Is it uploaded via FTP (wrong approach) or it is attached to the e-mail, then parsed by the PBM and saved in the attachments directory (correct approach)?

Check if the MIME type of the image is listed in the accepted MIME types setting (should be: it accepts GIF, JPG and PNG by default).

If the problem is not solved, send us the same e-mail at test_test[at]3dwebdesign.org (do not forward the previous message, please send us a fresh one). We will dig in to check what is happening...

[Ivan Stamenov]

With loaded i mean that , after the mail is send, i can find the attachment in the media/postbyemail folder, but it is not shown in the article. The only thing i see ( beside of the text) is the link to the attachment. Mime settings are ok.
I'll send an email.

thx
iba

Hi, iba.

There is nothing wrong with the e-mail and the component:

 Screenshot.png ( 225.84K ) Number of downloads: 5


Do you have the HTML container setting set (just below the accepted MIME types)? Should be something like: <img src="%s" title="%s" />?

[iba]

Hi Ivan,

Still the same, no picture. Can I send you login and pw for the backend of the site?

Grtz
Iba

Hi, iba.

There is nothing wrong with the e-mail and the component:

 Screenshot.png ( 225.84K ) Number of downloads: 5


Do you have the HTML container setting set (just below the accepted MIME types)? Should be something like: <img src="%s" title="%s" />?

[Web Design Seo]

Please, send login data from your email (used in order) on mail admin att our site.

[mitirino]

Hi,

I've started playing with your extension but have encountered a few problems. The emails I sent to the specified email account do get read by the extension and it attempts to import them. However after the first one was imported every other attempt to import produces and ERROR about the "same alias name".

The body did not get formated as expected... it appears twice.
The image did get saved in the specified folder. However did not appear in the message. Additionally the image remained with it's original name, which I'm not sure will work if I later send another email with the same image.

Here is how I expected this extension to work. Please let me know if this is possible for you to develop and/or fix:


1. Sending two emails with same Subject, same Text, same image name attachment should result in:
- two articles with the same names but different aliases.
- two images and each article pointing to the correct image (application should automatically rename the image attachment)

2. On error of any kind that results in no article the email should stay on the server

3. There should be an option to assign the (first) image attachment to one of the following:
- intro image
- main article image
- inline


This last image of a manually created article is all I want to be able to do with this extension - title, (unique and automatic alias), content which is plain text, Intro Image (unique and automatic name, and the image comes from the single attachment in the email).

I tried sending two emails to the admin at your site, but may have ended up in the spam.

Thanks

Dimitre

This post has been edited by Web Design Seo: Nov 14 2012, 12:27 PM

[Ivan Stamenov]

Hi, mitirino.

If the e-mail's content gets duplicated, try switching the "Mode" setting to "Default".

The "problem" with the image is explained in the posts, preceding yours: you don't have Attachments HTML Container set in your settings, so the image is inserted as a URL and not as a HTML element - it is clearly visible on your first screenshot.

Are you sure? Have you tested it? 'Cause I wrote the code and I am positive that the new file will receive a unique name.

About the article's aliases: these are calculated based on the e-mail's subject. If you have the same subject, you will end up with the same alias and the error in question. Currently the behaviour you want is not available; no one has asked us to be able to have different articles with the same name in their site...

3. There should be an option to assign the (first) image attachment to one of the following:
- intro image
- main article image
- inline

This is a good idea and it will be available in the next version of the PBM.

[mitirino]

Are you sure? Have you tested it? 'Cause I wrote the code and I am positive that the new file will receive a unique name.

Thanks.

I'll try the HTML Container.

I have not tested extensively as after the first failed attempt with the alias related error it then started producing this error even when the name/subject was different.

So I was basically only able to import one email. However the name of the image didn't change... it stayed exactly the same as the name of the file in the attachment. Which makes me say it is not unique in the sense of not having some artificial unique ID appended at the end of the file name for example.

Also my first attempt (the successful one) was in fact in Default mode... maybe that's why it didn't change the name of the file. But probably it would have changed it in the iPhone mode.

I personally am not planning to use the suggestion in option 1 either so most likely all the emails will have different subjects. But was mentioning it here more from a programming completeness perspective, as what you are doing is relying on the user input for the correct operation of your application... Which is not the right thing regardless of how little probability there is for the same subject. Especially when the end effect is that the email is lost and the article is not there. If there is a more graceful error recovery then maybe it is ok (I guess this ties into #2).

Also say you make it so that on error the email stays. But now it already has the same subject so there is really no way for me to change it. If I am the only person sending emails to that account I guess I could resend the email, but if there are many people this becomes a non-option. So that's why I think that there must be some kind of "auto" handling for aliases and appending a unique ID... maybe only if you do get an error, and otherwise just keep going with the one made out of the subject only.

[mitirino]

By the way I got two .zip files

post_by_email_pro_j25_1.6.2 - for Kunena 2.0 and over.zip
post_by_email_pro_j25-j17-j15_1.6.2.zip


The second one produces this when I try to install it:

JInstaller: :Install: Cannot find XML setup file



So I'm using the first one. But please let me know if the second one is in fact the one that I need to use as I don't know what is Kunena at all.

Thanks

This post has been edited by mitirino: Oct 8 2012, 05:36 PM

[Web Design Seo]

The name "post_by_email_pro_j25-j17-j15_1.6.2.zip" say that in this archive are both versions for joomla 1.5 and for joomla 2.5. If using this version for 2.5 you must know that this version is for older versions of kunena only.

[Ivan Stamenov]

Hi, Mitirino.

If you want to re-import the same e-mail, you must first completely erase the previously created article with the relevant alias (delete the article and empty the trash bin).

In the next version there will be two new options:
- Ignore duplicated aliases and compose unique one (the current date/timestamp will be added to the message's subject prior to building the alias)
- On error preserve the relevant message on the server.

The difference between the two modes (iPhone and Default) is, that the first one (iPhone mode) concatenates all the message parts to form the article, and the Defaul mode gets only the last chunk. E.g., if you have a message, containing both a HTML version and a plain text version of the same message, the iPhone mode will result in an article with doubled content (plaint text + HTML), and the Defaul mode will return only the HTML version (as it usually comes last).

The images, attached to an iPhone messages, are usually positioned inline, so using the iPhone parsing mode will preserve the structure of the original message.

[mitirino]

Great, I'll be waiting for the next release. And I'll try the "matrioshki" zip again

[mitirino]

By the way, thanks for the "Empty Trash" tip as I didn't know this is how "deleting" works and already had problems with this aliases.

[Ivan Stamenov]

By the way, thanks for the "Empty Trash" tip as I didn't know this is how "deleting" works and already had problems with this aliases.

No problem ! I believe the next version will be available by the end of the next week...

[DFCDay]

First of all thanks for the component.
But I have the following problem:

I bought the component and also installed. This went without problems. But now when I want to create a new query I get the following error:

CODE

Warning: require_once(C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomein.eu\httpdocs\components\com_kunena\class.kunena.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomein.eu\httpdocs\administrator\components\com_post_by_email\controller.php on line 277

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomein.eu\httpdocs\components\com_kunena\class.kunena.php' (include_path='.;./includes;./pear') in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomein.eu\httpdocs\administrator\components\com_post_by_email\controller.php on line 277

I have installed Joomla 1.5.26 and Kunena 2.0.2.

Can you help me here?

Regrads
DFCDay

[Web Design Seo]

In product description is written:

Only version for Joomla 2.5 support Ignite Gallery and Kunena 2.0 and over! Version for Joomla 1.5 support only Kunena versions before v.2.0.

We don't support joomla 1.5 version from more than one month. Version of post by email for joomla 1.5 will be updated ONLY if we find some bug in this version.

kunena 2.0 is much different than kunena v.1.7.

[DFCDay]

In product description is written:



We don't support joomla 1.5 version from more than one month. Version of post by email for joomla 1.5 will be updated ONLY if we find some bug in this version.

kunena 2.0 is much different than kunena v.1.7.

No problem, it is now. I simply commented out the code and then it goes. We want to post in the forum at the moment nothing.

Another Question:
How do I get it back but that the mail will be picked up automatically. Is this possible using a cron job?

[iba]

Please, send login data from your email (used in order) on mail admin att our site.

Problem is solved but i don't know how i did it. I changed a little bit on the html container and now it works.
The only thing that i still have to figure out is how to set the right date of the message... now it is always set on nov 30 1999.

grt

Iba

[Rossi]

Just installted the 1.7 version on a J2.5 and found that it posts articles with empty alias... only when i activate Use MD5 aliases it works - i would like to have nice aliases though (should be important for seo, or?)
Thanks!

[Web Design Seo]

Post by email create aliases only when Use MD5 aliases is used. If is not used, joomla fill aliases automatically due on your article title. Check your titles and joomla global configuration - there is option to have latin or unicode alias.

[Rossi]

Post by email create aliases only when Use MD5 aliases is used. If is not used, joomla fill aliases automatically due on your article title. Check your titles and joomla global configuration - there is option to have latin or unicode alias.

Then it seems that Joomla does not create an Alias itself - i can post one article through postbyemail - that one has an empty alias and then it tells me that there's an article with that alias existing already...
It doesn't matter if i select unicode or not in global configuration...