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Andy Kurth commented on VCL-1041:
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I like this idea but changed the "fixes" tag to VCL 2.5.1. Trying to
incorporate it into 2.5 will delay the release since it's 99% done.
For the backend, we can't universally set *'Content-type' => 'text/html'*
without updating all existing messages stored in the database to html because
it will munge the line breaks of non-HTML messages from the user's perspective.
It would be simple to add a check to automatically determine if the body
contains any HTML tags.
For the frontend, there are always concerns about being able to inject
malicious things into free-form text fields. I'm guessing it is stripping
anything that looks like a tag because of this. Personally, I don't think this
is much of a concern for this feature since the configuration should only be
limited to top-level VCL admins.
There are some other considerations. Some users don't like HTML email. We
could add a user preference option.
(_PS: It would be really nice if we could add a WYSIWYG editor that has text
and HTML modes._)
> Customer facing email notifications are ugly
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>
> Key: VCL-1041
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-1041
> Project: VCL
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: vcld (backend), web gui (frontend)
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Joseph Fischetti
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: easyfix
> Fix For: 2.5.1
>
> Attachments: front-end.diff, utilspm-changes.diff
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> By default, emails sent from the management node don't have any special
> formatting. To an end-user, they look more like an unrefined system message
> than official communication.
> edit -> fixed typo.
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