socialmedian: Comment Reply via Email Improvements

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May 15, 2009

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Since opening up the comment reply via email feature to everyone last month we’ve been continuing to improve it. Here are some of changes that have gone in during the last few weeks:

Better detection of email auto responders / vacation messages

Added a reminder to the bottom of comment notification emails about the reply via email feature

Vastly improved support for non-English character sets

Fixed a problem that some iPhone users were seeing

Improved email address parsing for Blackberry users

Fixed cases where signature blocks weren’t being properly removed

Better paragraph formatting when parsing comments

And many little tweaks to deal with the oddities of various email clients. You’d be amazed how many email clients have their own little quirky ways of doing things.

For users who don’t include quoted reply text in your emails I do want to point out that you’ll need to end your email comment reply with !END on a line by itself. We’ll detect this in place of quoted reply text and use everything above the !END line as the new comment. This is mentioned on

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