Template overrides "From Email" and "Reply To" headers about wordpress-sparkpost HOT 15 CLOSED

You can use {{subject}} and substitution when creating Template in the SparkPost UI. In the subject field, set {{subject}} which will be replaced with actual subject when sending from WordPress. Same for From Name.

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A few notes that may help

• You'll have to specify the template id in the plugin's settings page
• Use the Test email feature in the plugin page. If problem persists, post the debug information here.

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The template works without the substitution tags of {{subject}} and
{{from_email}} on the template UI.

How can I send you debug info?

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A few notes that may help

• You'll have to specify the template id in the plugin's settings page
• Use the Test email feature in the plugin page. If problem persists,
  post the debug information here.

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When you use test email in plugins settings page, you'll see a checkbox 'Show debug messages'. Check that on and it'll show some debug messages at top of settings page.

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Hi rajumsys,

I have made a test - and the subject works with the {{subject}} tag in the
Template UI, I also added {{from_email}} tag in the UI, however when doing
the test from sparkpost wp, i received an email with the format
{{from_email}}@xyz.com , which means that the from is not being
substituted... I think your plugin has issues substituting the headers
data, as I have seen quite some problems that people are having with
gravityforms, and with contact form 7.

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When you use test email in plugins settings page, you'll see a checkbox
'Show debug messages'. Check that on and it'll show some debug messages at
top of settings page.

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I can confirm that {{from_email}} DOES NOT WORK, it doesn't get replaced as it should.

MANY wordpress plugins (including the extra popular gravityforms and contact form7) replace values from email headers depending on the actions; for instance, my sites can send email depending on the subject or actions, for example:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

I am not sure if it's a sparkpost or the wordpress plugin issue, but it "forces" the from name, which is quite useless - it should have the flexibility to allow for other plugins to replace this data accordingly, not all emails coming from one site will be from the same "from email" name.

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It also has another critical issue when using templates:

This plugin also overrides any "reply-to", for instance with wpmandrill any email sent from gravityforms, which indicated a reply-to address, was properly sent with those headers.

This plugin forces the reply to be sent to the "from email", which is also quite useless, there are many emails in many organisations that are not actual inboxes, nor forwarders, so a reply-to is crucial.

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I can confirm that {{from_email}} DOES NOT WORK, it doesn't get replaced as it should.

AFAIK, you can't substitute from email.

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So how can we have dynamically generated notifications like mandrill or
mailgun do?

I need my sites to fire up different from different addresses like
[email protected], [email protected], etc.

Its a very basic functionality of transactional emailing....

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, 00:20 thehungrycoder [email protected] wrote:

I can confirm that {{from_email}} DOES NOT WORK, it doesn't get replaced
as it should.

AFAIK, you can't substitute from email.

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@xfechx Technically, you should be able to substitute local part of the From Email. Like {{from_email}}@domain.com (make sure there is no space in substitution tag). However, we haven't test it yet with wordpress plugin.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vmktj5u3y6gi83/Screenshot%202016-04-19%2010.37.59.png?dl=0

As of now, you can't substitute domain name.

I'm not totally sure, how from email substitution will work in wordpress. another alternative is

• adding a filter for template selection (i mean currently you enter the template name in settings page; but if we add a filter, you can programmatically change what value we're passing to api)
• you create separate templates for different types of mails, and change the template name using the filter.

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I am getting this error:

Preparing request data
Request headers: Array( [User-Agent] => wordpress-sparkpost [Content-Type]
=> application/json [Authorization] =>
fd2e************************************)
Request body: {"recipients":[{"address":{"email":"[email protected]
","name":""}}],"content":{"from":{"email":"[email protected]","name":"WordPress"},"subject":"SparkPost
email test","headers":{"Date":"Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:24:48
+0000","Message-ID":"[email protected]","X-Mailer":"PHPMailer
5.2.14 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)"},"template_id":"website-template"},"options":{"open_tracking":true,"click_tracking":true},"substitution_data":{"content":"

Hurray!!</h3>

You've
got mail! <br/>
Regards,<br/><a
href="https://www.sparkpost.com">SparkPost</a>
WordPress plugin</p>","subject":"SparkPost email
test","from_name":"WordPress"}}
Making HTTP POST request to https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1/transmissions
Response received
Response headers: Array( [cache-control] => no-cache, no-store
[content-type] => application/json [date] => Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:24:49 GMT
[server] => msys-http [vary] => Accept [content-length] => 241 [connection]
=> Close)
Response body: { "errors": [ { "message": "Message generation rejected",
"description": "No Sending Domain found in From header", "code": "1902" }
], "results": { "total_rejected_recipients": 0,
"total_accepted_recipients": 1, "id": "30270959232090468" } }

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@xfechx https://github.com/xfechx Technically, you should be able to
substitute local part of the From Email. Like {{from_email}}@domain.com
(make sure there is space in substitution tag). However, we haven't test it
yet with wordpress plugin.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vmktj5u3y6gi83/Screenshot%202016-04-19%2010.37.59.png?dl=0

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Did some digging here - a couple of notes:

You can indeed use a variable for from when creating a template, you just need to create the template via API - our UI doesn't support a sub data for the entire from field it only supports using substitution for the localpart.

Reply to is also able to be a variable, but again our UI does not support it.

Here's an example payload with html, from, subject, and reply_to set to variables.

{
  "id" : "wordpress-testing",
  "name" : "wp-sparkpost testing",
  "published" : true,
  "options": {
    "open_tracking" : true,
    "click_tracking" : true
  },
  "content": {
    "html": " {{{content}}}",
    "subject": "{{subject}}",
    "from": "{{from}}",
    "reply_to": "{{reply_to}}"
  }
}

I'm going to go ahead and make some tweaks to make all this work if the template is created via API. We'll also need a support article we can link to from the WordPress settings UI.

I was able to modify the code as well to make all of the above work. I'll be submitting as a PR once I clean the code up a little bit.

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This update has been published with 2.3.0 - make sure to read through https://support.sparkpost.com/customer/portal/articles/2409547-using-templates-with-the-sparkpost-wordpress-plugin for implementation details.

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Greetings,

Has this feature for adding all specific email headers available through the web UI, rather than only the API?

A lot of users that have come through mandrill are using the template UI for importing their mandrill themes, and I assume a lot of people do not want to mess up with the API directly.

Kind regards,

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