HTML doesn't appear for AOL users

[sam0812]

Hi,

Can you tell me how my AOL subscribers can
view a clickable confirmation link?

I don't think many of them would copy and paste
the link.

Thank you.

[DW]

I believe the latest versions of AOL automatically make links in text messages clickable, so a standard message code of the type "Remove Link" should work fine.

!remove is a code set up in Message Codes > Global Codes by default.

At this time ListMail performs some undocumented operations when sending to AOL.

1. Only the text version of the message will be sent even if HTML is also included.

2. Links will be translated as follows:

http://site.com

becomes

<a href=http://site.com>http://site.com</a>

In the next release I am removing all automatic formatting but may include an option for backwards compatibility and for those who prefer to have their links translated the old(?) way.

Can anyone with an AOL account offer some details about how their messages appear in the current release?

[sam0812]

>Can anyone with an AOL account offer some details about how their messages appear in the current release?

Dean,

When I send HTML messages to my AOL accounts, they don't appear
formatted properly.  I have thousands of AOL subscribers so I really
need to get this working.

I was curious to see how other Autoresponder programs dealt with
sending HTML to AOL so I signed up for a free account at
http://www.marketerschoice.com

If you could take a look at how their Send Mail features are setup,
you might get some ideas to improve ListMail.  They have one box
for the message body and above it are radio buttons where you can
easily choose to send Text, HTML, or MIME and right below is a
Preview button to see exactly how the message will look like.  
I tried out their system to send a HTML message to my AOL account
and it showed up perfectly.

I hope you can improve ListMail to work similar to this.  I'd hate
to spend a montly fee at one of these Autoresponder sites in order
to get this working.

Thank you.

[sam0812]

Dean,

Just an idea...  

if you go to AOL.com you can sign-up for 2 months free service.
 
It might be good for you to see first hand how the HTML emails
on aol look.

[DW]

Due to too many clients reporting bounces from AOL when they include HTML images I have disabled HTML to AOL.

You can enable HTML to AOL by manually modifying the file admin.php

On line 933, change:

   if(strpos($email,'@aol.com')>0 && !$html_to_aol) $aol = 1; else $aol = '';

to:

   // if(strpos($email,'@aol.com')>0 && !$html_to_aol) $aol = 1; else $aol = '';

This will disable ever detecting an AOL address and performing undocumented formatting.

The next update will disable this and likely feature an option to send text-only messages to specified domains.

[sam0812]

I changed line 933 as you suggested, but it's still only
transmitting the text.

Can you please try it out?

[DW]

Try adding this line to config.php:

$html_to_aol = 1;

[sam0812]

Thank you!

That line did the trick.