Plain text emails printing HTML characters

[Anonymous]

In Settings -> Mail -> Contact person pending email format
I have:
+ Send HTML mails -> NO
+ Contact person pending email format begins:
Name: #_RESPNAME <#_RESPEMAIL>

This has worked fine until I updated 1.7.7 -> 1.7.9. Now when the email is sent it contains HTML characters for the < and >, i.e.
Name: Joe Bloggs <joe.bloggs@whatever.com>

I have diff’d the versions and cannot find a change that might have caused this. I have updated a few other plugins but I guess they cannot influence this.

[Anonymous]

My report did not appear correctly because the forum allows HTML. When the email is sent, it is a text email that appears like:
Name: Joe Bloggs &_l_t_;joe.bloggs@whatever.com@_g_t_;

without the underscores _

[Franky]

Well, currently I can’t explain it either (the code seems correct), I’ll test this evening

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if this function helps:
htmlspecialchars_decode(string,flags)

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_htmlspecialchars_decode.asp

[Franky]

Found the problem: I activated the html-editor in the options, so that causes it to be saved with html-converted chars.
I’ve split out the mail templates in a separate section, so we can easily take the option to send html mails into account and disable the html editor if not needed. This version of the eme_options file should fix it (and check your mail templates in the new section afterwards):
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-made-easy/trunk/eme_options.php?rev=1553969&format=txt

[Anonymous]

The fix worked for me. Thanks.

I did have to check the templates, as you suggested, because the plain text contained HTML codes that I needed to replace, e.g. &_l_t_; with <

Thanks again.

[Author]

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