Richer Postmark emails plugin 📧 [Update of 16 march 2021]

[LA81638]

Hi @vini_brito, my users are getting this error, please can anyone help me understand the issue.

I’m getting it everytime an email is sent with an attachment

TIA

[vini_brito]

I have never seen this error before, but probably is a Bubble issue since other server side plugin actions from other plugins are showing the same problem.
Report that to Bubble, please, and insist it is not a plugin-specific problem when they try to redirect you to “the plugin author”.

[asked111]

I am getting this too! All my emails have stopped working since a few hours ago. But its ALSO AFFECTING AMAZON SES emails! So it’s not plugin specific! Must be a bubble problem!

No transactional emails are being sent. Really annoying. grrr. Have written to bubble support.

Wonder what’s happened.

[LA81638]

Ok thanks for reply. I’ve messaged Bubble support

[redvivi]

I have reached out to Bubble engineering and got an answer - they are working on a fix.

[vini_brito]

That’s great everyone! I’m sure they will get this sorted out pretty soon.

[ahmed.khodeir.87]

Hi @vini_brito ,

will our emails be impacted in any way when we are using this plugin after the changes to be done by Postmark ( Static IP Deprecation: Postmark will no longer support IP allow-listing for our API ) ?

Link to the update:

Static IP Deprecation: Postmark will no longer support IP allow-listing for...

[johnny]

@ahmed.khodeir.87, no it shouldn’t

[ahmed.khodeir.87]

Thanks @johnny !

[code-escapee]

I’m trying to understand the utility of this app over simply sending a post via the API Connector? doing so would also allow for different variable names (easier to then format in Postmark) and tags, etc. What am I missing?

[tylerboodman]

@jacob10 It’s just a quick drop-in replacement for the default Send email action. Nothing too advanced just works.

Also has some logic like when you don’t give any “Cc” recipients it won’t send a null value like

“Cc”:"", in the POST body (yes this can be done with the API Connector too)

[LA81638]

Hi all, I’ve added BBCode to HTML to add formatting to the emails sent via the app.

I’d like the emails sent from scheduled API workflows to also send formatted emails. How do I do this please?

[maw]

I have what appears to be a unique situation and hoping there is a good solution. I have an approval process where the next approver gets an email with a button in the email that they can click and when clicked, it will open up a web browser to my application that will trigger various events based on various requirements. The user doesn’t need to do anything beyond just clicking the Approved Button.

This was working great until one customer implemented email security features where a robot will open every single email and on top of that will automatically test click links that are in the email.

So I am looking for a way to still have a button in the email that the user can click to approve in their email, but my application needs to know when it was the robot and NOT approve or do anything, but when it is the human, then approve and do all the required steps.

We can obviously force the user to actually do an action in the browser, but the goal here is to make the approval process as simple/easy as possible and not force the user to take additional steps after clicking the one button.

@vini_brito

[vini_brito]

That’s a nice challenge! Hmm, I would start by profiling the browser, checking USER AGENT and things like that, lots of plugins offers you that info and many more.
See if you can differentiate the robot from real users.
Also, there is one variable that legit robots set to “yes” to signal they are bots, it is called “web driver”, probably that bot will have that on, seek ways to check it.
@maw

[LA81638]

@vini_brito I was wondering if there was a solution to this please? Thanks in advance

[tylerboodman]

@lisaalger Are you saying it’s behaving differently when it’s run directly vs schedule workflow? Cause that doesn’t make any sense since it’s the same action

[LA81638]

Hi ya @tylerboodman, as I have the BBCode > HTML element on a page when I send the email then it formats the text in the email. As I can’t add that element to the backend workflow my emails aren’t formatted correctly when sent through a backend workflow…hope that makes sense, just having my first coffee

[tylerboodman]

Well when you are scheduling the API workflow, you can include the BBCode there by passing it through as a parameter (add a new parameter to the API workflow (text))

Maybe that’s what you want?

[LA81638]

Ah can I, I didn’t realise that Will do that now, thanks so much

[LA81638]

The body of the email looks like this…how would I add the BBCode to HTML element to this please? TIA