Infrastructure

The patch should be included in the pull request.

Hi,

Thank you very much ! Now I can select a text field as subject of the mail, so the main issue is solved. :-)
However I still have 2 problems:
1/ In the preceding version of Silverstripe, it was possible to use the email provided by the user as "Send email from". In the new version it is not possible.
As a consequence, I need to use a fictive email (for example "demande_aide_fr@libreoffice.org") to avoid the cryptic email from the server.
The second and more annoying consequence is that it is not possible anymore to answer to the user even if the reply_to: field is filed. Indeed, while it works if the mail is sent to a personal email like mine, it does not work if the mail is sent to our users mailing-list because the LibreOffice mailing-lists ignore the reply to: field. So it could be better if it was possible to choose the sender email as we can choose the reply_to: email

2/ mail formatting: because our mailing-lists do no accept html, I need to send the mail in simple text. The resulting mail looks like that:
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Email: - jbf.faure@sud-ouest.org
Sujet: - Sixième test du nouveau formulaire de demande d'aide
Question: - Bonjour

Un de plus et ce n'est sans doute pas fini

JBF
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"Email:", "Sujet:" and "Question:" are the names of the form fields. There is 2 issues in the mail:
a) there is a blank character in front of Email: but not in front of the others field names;
b) there is a - after each field name and the field contents start just after; the resulting mail would look better if the field contents was written on the next line as it is done when the mail is sent in html.

My form is here: http://fr.libreoffice.org/get-help/poser-une-question

Best regards. JBF

regarding 1)

if the mailing list ignroes reply-to, then I'd consider it a bug in your mail-client - reply to all should respect those headers
Claiming to be someone else is tricky business, so better to avoid that (sending mail with from specified by the user - it is a mail that originates from our servers and we don't want paypal-scams sent via our servers for example...

regarding 2)

did you try already what happens when you let the mailinglist do the html-stripping?

It seems that Thunderbird is more smart than me: in fact it does not ignore the reply-to fields if the email in the reply-to is not the one who is answering. I copied the mails I have sent to our users ML (http://go.mail-archive.com/syuGRWByjjB6-VwCIm6222vsCdE=) in another mailbox where my personal and LibreOffice emails are unknown and when I choose reply to all, both the users FR ML and my email are copied in the To: field of the answer. So it works as expected.

Concerning the email formatting, my first try was to let the mailinglist do the html-stripping and that gives the result in the above mail where all paragraphs are joined.

Best regards. JBF

Jean-Baptiste Faure, did you try the Send Pain Email checkbox in the Silverstripe form where you set the mailing things (where you set subject, etc.). Also can you screenshot the email after that because I can't really understand the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience and glad the major problem is fixed.

Talked with someone more experienced with Silverstripe and pointed out a possible bug in the code which causes the extra space. I have asked Christian to try to do a simple edit on our servers to check if this is the problem. Hope to have a reply by next week.

OK, the module was patched on our server so the extra space is now removed. If you have any more problem with his, feel free to ask. If not, we can close this issue.