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Email notification bug by Choli on 01-14-2004 at 11:39 PM

I've just been sent this email:

quote:
Choli,

---+[Matty]+--- has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed
---+to at the Messenger Plus! Forums. This thread is titled VB code for
---+sumthin.

Here is an excerpt of the message:
etc....
I know that happens also when |rolando| replies. MyBB puts his nick at the begining of the 3 lines.

WDZ should fix this :gfdrin:
RE: Email notification bug by WDZ on 01-15-2004 at 03:12 AM

O_O





...





O_O





OK, that's strange. :p

You sure it's MyBB and not your e-mail reading program?

RE: Email notification bug by CookieRevised on 01-15-2004 at 05:39 AM

this is what I have as a reply:

code:
CookieRevised,

WDZ has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed to at the Messenger Plus! Forums. This thread is titled :wdzspam:.

Here is an excerpt of the message:
--
quote:
Originally posted by Jehuty
What if you weren\'t in there in the first place *cosmic*... (visit the thread to read more)
--
......................................
.......more blah here.......
......................................
It all looks normal to me...
RE: Email notification bug by Choli on 01-15-2004 at 01:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by WDZ
You sure it's MyBB and not your e-mail reading program?
Of course. Maybe you didn't get me. That only happens when ---+[Matty]+--- or |rolando| reply (and maybe other people too). I think that's due to their nicks. They don't begin with a "normal" character (ie. a letter). Just see a normal mail:
quote:
Choli,

WDZ has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed to at the Messenger Plus! Forums. This thread is titled Email notification bug.

Here is an excerpt of the message:
--
O_O

etc...
RE: Email notification bug by WDZ on 01-15-2004 at 09:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Choli
Of course. Maybe you didn't get me. That only happens when ---+[Matty]+--- or |rolando| reply (and maybe other people too). I think that's due to their nicks. They don't begin with a "normal" character (ie. a letter). Just see a normal mail:
I still think it's your mail reader. :refuck:

Or the mailer program on this server... :-/

But definitely not MyBB. :p

My guess is that the mail reader thinks those are quotes.

Example mail message with quotes:

code:
Yes, that is correct.
> OK. So I spam too much?
>> Hey, stop posting so much crap!

Some people might use other characters for the quotes, such as:

code:
User A's reply
| User B's reply
|| User A's original message

See what I'm getting at? :p

The line starting with "|" (or other non-alphanumeric characters) is thought to be a quote. Your mail reader wraps it, then puts what it thinks are the quote markers in front of each line so it's easier to understand.

I'll do some more research on this theory... :dodgy:
RE: Email notification bug by Choli on 01-15-2004 at 10:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by WDZ
See what I'm getting at?
Yep, I get you, but I really think that's not the problem. Because:
[*]The mails are sent as text, not html, and Outlook just displays the text.
[*]When I read the mails at the uni, I use a webmail and (if I can remember well) I have the same problem
[*]The only weird line is the one of the nick, not all the mail (as you said it could be, due to that strange "|" quote
[*]It also happens this ---+[Matty]+---, which nick doesn't start neither with | nor >

And as I think I said, with ---+[Matty]+---, the strange lines begin with ---+, ie: only the first characters at the nick, however, with |rolando| it is something like (just now i haven't any mail with his nick)

|rolando| has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed
|rolando|to at the Messenger Plus! Forums. This thread is titled VB code for
|rolando|sumthin.

Well, you can send me any mail if you want to do any test. And, btw, don't care much more about this. I only receive those mails once each 1000 times :P
RE: Email notification bug by Choli on 01-18-2004 at 11:20 PM

:-/ any news? the problem is still there...

RE: Email notification bug by CookieRevised on 01-19-2004 at 12:46 AM

with Netscape (yeah, shoot me :p) I get this (which is normal):

code:
CookieRevised,

|Rolando| has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed to at the Messenger Plus! Forums. This thread is titled penguin msn update?.

Here is an excerpt of the message:
--
quote:
Originally posted by lizard.boy
its not too hard is it rolando? dont you just copy th... (visit the thread to read more)
--

So it must be your client...
OE uses (like Mozilla) a system which interprets your message for replies, it seems OE doesn't do this very well :/ It doesn't have to be HTML for that. In fact with HTML you won't get this 'bug'. That's because HTML has his own encoding. And I guess this is the cause of this bug. Normaly if a mail hasn't an encoding specified, the default is used. But it seems that OE does something wrong with this and thinks that the emails are "quoted-printable" for some reason. A typical message like that should have this header: Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable. But the mails recieved from the board don't have this header, so... strange...
maybe if this header is added to the mails, it will work: Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit

Blah...well... I'll can't explain it good in english... so...never mind this if it doesn't make sense. But I think it has todo something with this... :D
RE: Email notification bug by Choli on 01-19-2004 at 10:17 AM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
with Netscape (yeah, shoot me ) I get this (which is normal):
[Image: machinegun.gif]
well, then the problem is my :dodgy: Outlook (not express, btw)
RE: Email notification bug by DXtremz on 01-21-2004 at 12:22 AM

* DXtremz has outlook and doesn't get that error ...Outlook 2003 and I had Outlook 2002 before.

RE: Email notification bug by Choli on 01-28-2004 at 12:03 AM

err... sorry for replying in an old thread but i know what was the problem. My stupid outlook, due to an only-microsoft-knows reason, decided to add (or remove) some line breaks, and it displayed a yellow zone just above the "from" field where you can click and see the original message. (you know what i mean, don't you?:P)

anyway, thanks for your replies and i'll look for an option to disable that :dodgy: thing ;)