OK - here are the things I've done:

On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Peter Velan wrote: >

am 02 11 2009 00:11 schrieb Justin J:

a) An eror still comes up:

"Wide character in print at /data/cgi-bin/ddm4/mail cgi line 1554 "

OK, this is an error that's only in the error log?

yes

OK - this has to do with writing UTF-8 encoded things to something
that doesn't support UTF-8 I don't know what that would be, still
yet We're going to get a lot of these in Dada Mail

If you can provide a simple message that causes this error, I'll look
at it closer, but I don't know if I can completely fix it

Could a linked stylesheet be included in the email itself like images (after setting the option appropriately)? I don't like to load additional parts from outside to the newsletter

In fact, it can! On the, "Send a Webpage" screen, if you select the
option,

Images in this Webpage Should:
    [x] be embedded in the message itself

The stylesheet will go along for the ride, as well There's no way to
say, "embed the stylesheet, not the images", I don't think

I'll make a note to change the automatic plain text creation to just simply use only what's in the body tag of the HTML message That'll save a lot of grief

Nice plan

I've now done this - the HTML to PlainText conversion now just looks
between the body tags and converts that

b2) Any german umlaut (in the webpage these kind of characters are coded as HTML entities is lost in the text version

Very strange, but I can recreate the problems here, as well I'll
look into this too

Thanks for looking after this

I found out what was happening here:

The built in HTML to PlainText converter basically just strips away
anything that's not an ascii character Brilliant I'm not going to
change this behavior - I do say that the converter is pretty bad, so
it's at least advertised to be dumb, but! I've given Dada Mail support
for something called, "HTML::FormatText::WithLinks", which, if
available, can be used instead to do the conversion and it works a
whole lot better than whatever is I made one day

All that needs to be done to enable it is to install the CPAN perl
module:

HTML::FormatText::WithLinks

If you already know how to do that, you are in good shape! :)

I've posted the changes I've made since my last email to the git repo:

http://github
com/justingit/dada-mail/commit/aabe397a8010d1711533acd687aadf557c6f820f

These changes add support for HTML::FormatText::WithLinks and also
fixes some of the problems with the built-in converter, basically with
parsing the, "head" of a HTML message

You may just want to grab from the latest commit, though