Port from City Tech OpenLab: Changes to email notifications

[bree-z]

Hi Boone,

Can we port the changes we're making to email notifications to CBOX OpenLab?

• Don't strip embedded media from outgoing email: http://redmine.citytech.cuny.edu/issues/3028
• Email Notifications > Links removed: http://redmine.citytech.cuny.edu/issues/3025

Thanks!

[boonebgorges]

We're still some way from deciding what will happen on the OpenLab for 3028. We'll need to build it there before we can decide whether it's easy and/or wise to include in CBOX.

For 3025, the OpenLab-specific fix is not very good, and not appropriate for CBOX. Ideally we'd fix the problem in BPGES boonebgorges/buddypress-group-email-subscription#220, and our ability to do so will depend on summer funding. Let's hold off for a few weeks while this shakes out.

[boonebgorges]

Item 2 should be addressed by boonebgorges/buddypress-group-email-subscription#220. I've patched openlabdev.commonsinabox.org with this fix for the purposes of testing.

[boonebgorges]

For item 1, I've added openlab-email-embedded-media as a required plugin for the OpenLab package.

I've set this up to test on openlabdev.commonsinabox.org. However, I can't get any emails to be sent by that site at the moment. @bree-z When you start testing, perhaps you could see if this is a problem specific to my account. If outgoing email is busted, I may instead need to switch to an SMTP sender for that site so that we can test features like this.

[bree-z]

I'm getting email notifications on openlabdev.commonsinabox.org, but I don't see any media embeds or links in those notifications.

When I check in https://openlabdev.commonsinabox.org/wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=cbox-plugins I see that 'Email Embedded Media' is active.

See screenshots below of the email notifications for these two posts:

https://openlabdev.commonsinabox.org/omnia-peccata-paria-dicitis/2023/07/12/testing-media/
https://openlabdev.commonsinabox.org/omnia-peccata-paria-dicitis/2023/07/12/links/

[boonebgorges]

There were some additional changes that had happened on the OpenLab since the CBOX-OL fork that needed to be applied here - namely, the OL uses the full text of the blog post when generating a BPGES email, but CBOX-OL never did that. As a result, the BPGES notification was being generated from the BP activity stream item, which is stripped of all HTML tags. This problem should now be fixed.

[bree-z]

Thanks Boone! This looks good.