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Several times recently I have received messages from users – presumably as a result of them clicking on

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– which contain the message twice i.e. the full text of the message repeated. I assumed finger-trouble for the first one but having now received four different messages from different people, all of which show the same duplication, I suspect that the duplicate may have been generated by the system somehow and not the user!
Between the ‘original’ text, which starts:

The following message has been sent to your Davies Family Trees user account from xxxxxx xxxxxxx
Subject: xxxxx xxxxx

… and the ‘duplicate’ there are two lines showing the name and e-mail address of th sender::

Your Name: xxxxx xxxxxx
Email Address: [email protected]

Clearly it’s not a major concern but is it a bug?

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I have also experienced this from a number of separate users exactly as you say.

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clandav wrote:

Clearly it’s not a major concern but is it a bug?

That depends on your definition of a “bug”. The current design of messages is pretty much unchanged since PGV days. I can’t confirm, but believe this “odd” duplication has always been there. So by my definition it is “designed” rather than a bug.

But that doesn’t make it right of course, and I agree with your question.

Messaging overall is something I am working on for (hopefully) the next release. So the duplication will disappear as part of that process.

For information there are a few issues behind the messaging sub-system re-write:

• The current “php_mail” library has issues with latest PHP versions, so needs to be replaced.
• The code for messaging is extremely convoluted so needs to be simplified.
• Part of simplification will be to remove the internal storage of messages (sorry Ron, but the response to this subject a few months ago showed you are the only kiwitrees site actively using it 🙁 ) Existing stored messages will not however be deleted. Up to you what you do with them.
• I anticipate removing ALL the messaging type options and just defaulting to “kiwitrees sends messages without storage”.
• There will be a clear option for each user to opt out of receiving emails (except system generated ones like new passwords etc). (i.e. the current “Preferred contact method” = “none” setting
• The currently broken html mail option will be fixed by changing the library used. (https://kiwitrees.net/forums/topic/sending-mail-using-html/)

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info