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I’m having an issue when using this plugin to post to the Moblog module when the post includes an email address. I’m also cross-posting this to the EE forum, because I’m not entirely sure that it is an issue with the plugin.

Essentially, the way the site works is the user fills out a safecracker form to create an entry in Channel A, and that form redirects to confirmation page that uses the Email fro Template plugin to send a moblog email that cross-posts some of the data from the entry to an Channel B.

Here is my moblog template:

Here is my email template (that runs through the Email from Template plugin—the {f1-...} fields are all EE custom text fields.):

And this is what a typical email sent to the moblog address looks like:

The problem occurs when the last field contains an email address. If the field is blank, everything works fine, and the moblog post works as intended. When the field contains an email address, the entire last line from the email gets posted at the end of every other field. If I view the moblog channel entry in the control panel, the entry fields all contain the correct info from the email followed by “<field:firm-email format=“none”>name@example.com</field:firm-email>”.

This error only happens with emails sent using the Email from Template plugin, but when I view the actual emails, they are formatted properly, and everything looks fine. If I copy and paste the content in to a new email and send it to the moblog module manually, it works fine. I’m not sure if if makes a difference, but I’m using gmail for the moblog email address.

Any help troubleshooting this would be greatly appreciated.

Sure, I’ll be happy to help!

First, check to make sure the “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” preference is turned off for that channel:

http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/cp/admin/channels/channel_edit_preferences.html#automatically-turn-urls-and-email-addresses-into-links

(The moblog process might be choking on the extra anchor tag…)

Thanks, Michael.

“Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” is off in both channels.

Hmmm… okay, then. Would you feel comfortable creating some credentials for me to log into your site to check it out?

Sure. Is there a way to pm or email you the info?

Ah yes, sorry—michael (at) michaelrog (dot) com

Thanks. Just sent you an email.

I was wrong about the problem only happening when using the plugin. I sent a test from gmail and it caused the same problem, but then a test sent from Mac Mail worked fine. I posted the raw source of the messages on my EE support forums thread.

Whitespace seems to be a culprit here—Not sure why that is; Email-from-Template shouldn’t converting whitespace, nor should the template parser… I’m still stumped.

I’ll try to find a fix, and if I can make a change to the plug-in to error-proof it, I’ll push that out in the next update. Meanwhile, take out superfluous whitespace (spaces and indents) in the template/email and you’ll be good.