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Here's the source of the validation email sent out by the Email Validation plug-in:

(I've bolded the problem)

The exclamation point is not in the source as defined in the Email Validation plug-in. The exclamation point seems to move around depending on the length of the email text.

As you can see, the img link is trashed, so the footer image doesn't display.

<html><body><p><img src="http://www.charles4constable.com/ESW/Images/updatenewsletterheader.gif" border="0" alt="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Logo" title="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Logo" /></p><p>Geoff,</p><p>To confirm your endorsement of Charles Woertendyke for Constable, please click this link:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://charles4constable.com/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=endorsements&task=beforeshow&uid=INGJiZjBhMzBlZWY5">http://charles4constable.com/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=endorsements&task=beforeshow&uid=INGJiZjBhMzBlZWY5</a></p><p>Your endorsement will not be published until you have clicked the link. We require this to prevent spammer abuse. </p><p>Thank you for endorsing me to be elected Dallas County Constable in Precinct 4, and for your support.</p><p>Charles W.</p><p>Candidate for Dallas County Constable, Pct. 4</p><p><img src="http://www.charles4constable.com/ESW/Images/updatenewsletterp!
aidbyfooter.gif" border="0" alt="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Footer" title="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Footer" /></p>

Here's the actual html in the Email Message area of Email Settings tab in the Email Validation plug-in:

<p><img src="http://www.charles4constable.com/ESW/Images/updatenewsletterheader.gif" border="0" alt="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Logo" title="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Logo" /></p><p>{first_name},</p><p>To confirm your endorsement of Charles Woertendyke for Constable, please click this link:</p><p>{vlink}</p><p>Your endorsement will not be published until you have clicked the link. We require this to prevent spammer abuse. </p><p>Thank you for endorsing me to be elected Dallas County Constable in Precinct 4, and for your support.</p><p>Charles W.</p><p>Candidate for Dallas County Constable, Pct. 4</p><p><img src="http://www.charles4constable.com/ESW/Images/updatenewsletterpaidbyfooter.gif" border="0" alt="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Footer" title="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Footer" /></p>

Further Information:

I shortened the HTML and now the footer image works because the magically appearing exclamation point is in an "alt" field where it doesn't break the link. THE ONLY THING I CHANGED was to reduce the amount of text in the body of the email!

<html><body><p><img src="http://www.charles4constable.com/ESW/Images/updatenewsletterheader.gif" border="0" alt="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Logo" title="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Logo" /></p><p>Geoff,</p><p>To confirm your endorsement, please click this link:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://charles4constable.com/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=endorsements&task=beforeshow&uid=IZGEyMzU5N2JlZWU1">http://charles4constable.com/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=endorsements&task=beforeshow&uid=IZGEyMzU5N2JlZWU1</a></p><p>Your endorsement will not be published until you have clicked the link. We require this to prevent spammer abuse. </p><p>Thank you for endorsing me to be elected Dallas County Constable in Precinct 4.</p><p>Charles W.</p><p>Candidate for Dallas County Constable, Pct. 4</p><p><img src="http://www.charles4constable.com/ESW/Images/updatenewsletterpaidbyfooter.gif" border="0" alt="Charles 4 Constable Newsle!
tter Footer" title="Charles 4 Constable Newsletter Footer" /></p>

Hi hostricity,

I've no idea why this happens but the ! is at the same place in both strings - after 1002 characters. And the character appears to be some kind of a line break.

The only instruction after the link is inserted is JUtility::sendMail and that seems capable of handling longer emails without any problem.

Is it possible something is happening on your mail server?

Bob

It seemed to me that it was a fixed number of characters (or bytes) into the message, but I was too lazy to count the number!

I tried registering from various email clients and didn't get the error.

When I use the contact form - which is also ChronoEngine, but without the Email Validation plug-in, I don't have this problem.

But, both of the forms using the Email Validation plug-in have this problem.

I tried a much longer email body and the exclamation point now appears in the middle of the email body.

I'd be curious to know if others using the plug-in are having this problem. Please note that I would not have noticed this if it weren't for the fact that it broke the img tag.

Geoff