After some "idle" time I have been trying to accomplish a reply by email while seeing ONLY the written reply text on the start of the notification email that also contains the sender's text (after "
The text of the reply is shown below:".
after some puzzling (first of all: I didn't know what exactly was meant with delimiters in filters as well as in parsers configuration. A little internet search showed up with e.g. https://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.delimiters.php. Hence - PHP delimiters).
Finally I specified the following with parsers:
(shown without delimiters)
This works perfectly well and includes the typical date/recipient text "
At <date/time> <name> <email> wrote:" of email clients when reply is initiated.
The regexp triggers on either full name as specified in
Site Name to use for the email or the email-address as specified in
Reply-To and From email address. Because it removes not only this sentence from line start, but all of the reply till its end, including quote text, I don't need taking care about the difference of plain text quoting or html-mail quoting
(of course, things are more difficult if I'd intend to let the plain quoted text pass the filter - for the case that anyone wants to cite one or two sentences).
BTW: the same regexp string does not work correctly when specified in the
filters section. Then only the date/recipient text is removed, despite the
.* quantifier at its end.
The folllowing I regard as a bit of a problem:
- notification is of course necessary when reply by email is used by individual forum users. However, my experience is: notification is switched of automatically when a send a new posting in any thread. Or also when new posts have arrived (but this seems not deterministic). I don't know how to arrange that notifications only change state by manual operation
- In notification mails with posting text, the posting content is not visible at first glance. I'd wish to have a line of "====================" after "The text of the reply is shown below:", or at least an empty line in between.
- Writing a reply by email requires BBcode formatting syntax knowledge. That's a serious disadvantage, since BBcode is getting outdated. I'd suggest that simple wiki style formatting be added to Elkarte, e.g. some Markdown styles or Dokuwiki (**bold**, //italic//, underline styles (hmm, I see that underlines produces bold in Elkarte...). Nevertheless, one Markdown formatting style (">" for quoting) is already implemented. :grin:
I believe there is some misunderstanding. The option to include message body sending is set to on.
What I get is:
Regarding
md-support in v2.0 (and already in 1.x from mail: cool.
What I wish is the body just below the op of the message. It seems that v2.0 does exactly that.