Re: plaintext email invoices, link to URL

[peter g. <pc...@ai...>]

* Dieter Simader <dsi...@sq...> [010924 10:57]:
> You can save the invoice from your browser.

Hrm, I was hoping for something a little more automatic. Like just
automatically saving the HTML version to the fs from e_mail_invoice() (in
SL::Form::parse_template()?). Or adding another button that does the email
and web page (so as not to pollute e_mail_invoice() with stuff that isn't
strictly email). Or to build a wrapper function send_invoice() that checks a
configuration variable in sql-ledger.conf and determines what exactly should
happen.

Thoughts on any of those?

> To use plain text invoices copy the invoice.html to invoice.txt and edit
> the file. Then edit email_invoice.html and <%include invoice.txt%>
> instead.

Fair enough. To get the link in the text email, though, I would need to base
it on the variables already available to me (in the hashref $form). In
addition, some of the variables in $form (e.g., address, signature) have
``<BR>'' in them after e_mail_invoice() transforms them, so I would need to
introduce add'l variables that really have ``\n''.

Are people really sending HTML-only email invoices? Is the assumption that
the percentage of people that use text-only email is insignificant enough
not to worry about?

Just FYI, my *real* intent was to send the email as multipart/alternative
with both the text and HTML versions. However, Microsoft, in all of its
brilliance, equipped Exchange with the ``feature'' of overwriting the text
part of a multipart/alternative email with a (POORLY!) rendered version of
the HTML. Forget what the *user* wants to see (text v. html), Bill Knows
What's Best. >:-(

Anyway, thanks for the help!

/pg
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