CUNY Academic Commons

I've pretty much completed all the points I listed above.

Making modifications to BP Group Email Subscription (GES) to support BP 2.5's email system. (I recently did something similar for the Genchem platform, so I'm a little familiar with this.). Should we also use BP's email system for GES digests?

GES now supports BP 2.5 single activity sendouts.

I haven't worked on digests yet though.

Making modifications to Reply By Email to support BP 2.5's email system.

RBE is pretty stable now with BP 2.5.

I fixed a bug that I ran into with BP 2.5 and PHPMailer. If the mailbox portion of the RBE email address is longer than 64 characters, then PHPMailer wouldn't use our RBE email address. This is now fixed. If you're interested in the details, you can read the commit message.

Ensuring that HTML content in emails shows up (blockquotes, bold, italics, links, etc). I'm mostly only concerned with group forum emails here. If time permits, I'll also work on activity updates and private messages (these will require BP core changes).

Ensuring that HTML content in plain-text emails degrades well for accessibility reasons (converting over links, text emphasis, etc.)

Forum post emails now render all HTML elements that bbPress supports. I've attached a screenshot showcasing this:
https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/attachments/download/2932/2016-05-06_172447.png

Plain-text content should degrade well as the content is converted over from HTML to a Markdown-like syntax.

Ensuring that the HTML email option under a user's "Settings > Email" page is respected. (This is a feature of the WP Better Emails for BuddyPress plugin.)

Spawned from our WP Better Emails for BuddyPress plugin, I created a new plugin for BP 2.5 so users can select whether they want to receive HTML or plain-text.

Investigate what needs to be done with our custom "WP Better Emails for BP Groupblog" plugin (#3219).

I've removed this custom plugin from our codebase.

I did run into issues with groupblog and BP 2.5. The issue is if you attempt to send a BP email from any site but the main Commons site, the BP email would not send. The problem is due to BP not registering its email taxonomy network-wide.

I've added a workaround for now and I have also opened a ticket on BP Trac with some more details.

Make a decision as to whether we should use BP's default email template or use the same template we use with WP Better Emails. If we use the default BP template, we should remove the "unsubscribe" link located in the email footer.

I've opted to use the new BP 2.5 email template, but made some mods so our CAC logo is displayed and adjusted the color scheme to match our older template. I've made a note about this in our ACTION_REQUIRED list.

I think we're ready to get others to test on cdev now!

I'm going to close this one as new email issues are being reported as separate tickets now.