using commas in the body of the SMTPSendMail command

howl · Post by **howl** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:54 pm

I'm using a variable for the body in the SMTPSendMail command. There are commas in the string and everything after the first comma gets cut off. How can I keep the commas? Example:

Let>bigbody=Please send me $1,500,000 in cash
SMTPSendMail>To,Server,FromAddress,FromName,Subject,bigbody

The body of the email ends up like this:

Please send me $1

Thanks in advance for your help.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:03 pm

You've missed off the last parameter - attachments. You need a final comma (followed by nothing as you have no attachments):

Let>bigbody=Please send me $1,500,000 in cash
SMTPSendMail>To,Server,FromAddress,FromName,Subject,bigbody,

That works.

mightycpa · Post by **mightycpa** » Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:48 pm

I'm trying to send some email, and I'm getting thwarted by commas in the body too. I'm able to get the example in the answer above to work, but when it gets more complicated than that, it doesn't work.

This is mission-critical. How do I fix it?

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//MessageModal>This macro demonstrates how to send Email & Files using the SMTPSendMail command.
Let>SENDMAIL_STATUS=1
Let>SMTP_HTMLBODY=1

Let>SMTP_SSL=1
Let>SMTP_AUTH=1
Let>SMTP_USERID=**************
Let>SMTP_PASSWORD=********

LabelToVar>Welcome0,msg0

/*
Welcome0:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {background-color: powderblue;}
h1   {color: blue;}
p    {color: red;}

a.button2{
 display:inline-block;
 padding:0.5em 3em;
 border:0.16em solid #FFFFFF;
 margin:0 0.3em 0.3em 0;
 box-sizing: border-box;
 text-decoration:none;
 text-transform:uppercase;
 font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;   /* <------ this comma right here is what cuts off the message  */
 font-weight:400;
 color:#FFFFFF;
 text-align:center;
 transition: all 0.15s;
}
a.button2:hover{
 color:#DDDDDD;
 border-color:#DDDDDD;
}
a.button2:active{
 color:#BBBBBB;
 border-color:#BBBBBB;
}
@media all and (max-width:30em){
 a.button2{
  display:block;
  margin:0.4em auto;
 }
} 

</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<a href="something" class="button2">Button</a>
<a href="something" class="button2">Very pretentious long button</a>	

Oh, and a comma will fail down here too.

</body></html>


*/

//MessageModal>msg
//GoTo>end
 
Let>smtp=smtp.gmail.com
Let>fromname=********
Let>fromemail=**********
Let>toemail=************
Let>subject=Comma Trouble!

SMTPSendMail>toemail,smtp,fromemail,fromname,subject,%msg0%,
//MessageModal>SMTP_RESULT
MidStr>SMTP_RESULT,1,3,ErrCode
If>%ErrCode%=250
  //Do Nothing
Endif

Label>end

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:32 pm

Remove the % signs from msg0. You're not embedding anything there. The variable should be on it's own:

SMTPSendMail>toemail,smtp,fromemail,fromname,subject,msg0,

mightycpa · Post by **mightycpa** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:37 am

Yes, that seems to have worked, thank you. I'm not sure I understand why this is necessary.

This line is from your example code:

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SMTPSendMail>toemail,smtp,fromemail,fromemail,subject,%msg%,attach

Is this variable embedded? I don't quite understand the difference.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:42 am

You're right, it shouldn't make a difference and I'm looking into that now. However, when referencing a variable on its own my rule of thumb is not to use % symbols. I only use them if I want to reference the variable within another string.

using commas in the body of the SMTPSendMail command

using commas in the body of the SMTPSendMail command

While the example given works, it is not a complete solution

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