Notification emails are not parsed properly by Hotmail

wpsharks / comment-mail

A WordPress plugin enabling email subscriptions for comments.

http://comment-mail.com

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Notification emails are not parsed properly by Hotmail #259

Closed raamdev closed 8 years ago

raamdev commented 8 years ago

There are reports of Comment Mail "New reply" notification emails showing up as blank when received by a Hotmail account: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-hotmailcom?replies=2

We need to set up a test Hotmail account and attempt to reproduce this.

raamdev commented 8 years ago

Looks like this might have to do with the DOCTYPE: http://blog.aaronvanderzwan.com/2012/09/sending-emails-hotmail-emails-are-blank-empty/

raamdev commented 8 years ago

We need to update the DOCTYPE in the email templates to fix this issue with Hotmail.

Here's what we currently use (an HTML5 doctype)

<!DOCTYPE html>

Here's what it needs to be changed to so that it works with Hotmail (This is an XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

raamdev commented 8 years ago

Next Release Changelog:

Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where "New reply" notification emails were not being parsed properly by some Hotmail accounts and were showing up as blank. Props @kristineds. See Issue #259.

raamdev commented 8 years ago

Comment Mail v160618 has been released and includes changes from this GitHub Issue. See the v160618 announcement for further details.

This issue will now be locked to further updates. If you have something to add related to this GitHub Issue, please open a new GitHub Issue and reference this one (#259).