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TRon:
Hi,
The following is something that has been bothering me since the existence of this forum and since nobody seem to have mentioned it before I am starting to doubt my sanity.
Whenever I'm editing a PM and preview the message, the recipient (or recipients) that I carefully selected are wiped clean from the message editor.
It is annoying as f*ck because there seem to be no cure. Even after manually adding the recipient(s) again (no matter how many times) they are wiped out again on the next press on the preview link.
Thank you for the attention.
MarkMLl:
I thought you were about to "do a Joanna" and say that you couldn't see some peoples' postings (or vice versa :-)
What I see is that the To: field is blank, but the recipient is underneath with a checkbox allowing his removal. Same applies to Bcc:. So basically, they're editable controls which allow users to be added one at a time, as distinct from many email etc. clients which allow you to (or insist that you) fabricate a comma-separated list with arbitrary quoting rules.
I agree that it's odd, and it has certainly confused me in the past, but it works (for almost everybody, the exception demanding that people use IRC instead).
MarkMLl
TRon:
No-no, not a "do a Joanna" :)
I am perfectly OK with accepting that some people do not wish to accept any of my ramblings (I get tired of my own as well at times :) )
Now, for this issue to reproduce create a PM and place some code tags with some content. Then press preview. It is either that or pressing preview twice in a row.
Edit: It seems to be due to the code-tags.
MarkMLl:
--- Quote from: TRon on February 22, 2025, 09:46:42 pm ---No-no, not a "do a Joanna" :)
--- End quote ---
I have to say that I've got absolutely nothing against Joanna: I'm old enough that the concept of a little old lady with silver hair tied into a bun isn't totally alien.
--- Quote ---Edit: It seems to be due to the code-tags.
--- End quote ---
Ah, that's interesting: I tend not to use BBC- or MD-style tags except when I /really/ need to make myself clear due to many (, many) years of experience with Usenet-style conventions (i.e. Usenet, plaintext email, CIX etc.).
When I tried the preview button it had no apparent effect, so it would appear that (a) preview does nothing unless there is BBC markup and (b) when preview does something it screws the recipient.
Moral: be careful to whom you send markup :-)
Not sure to whom this should be reported...
MarkMLl
dsiders:
--- Quote from: MarkMLl on February 22, 2025, 10:24:57 pm ---Not sure to whom this should be reported...
--- End quote ---
My guess would be https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF. I doubt it's been customized for use here.
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