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March 1, 2016 at 6:16 am

Hi there,

Click to edit the Event Admin ‘context‘ and you’ll see something like this – http://take.ms/gfVx1

The ‘To’ field determines if a specific context is active.

So if you add [EVENT_AUTHOR_EMAIL] to that section and save the template you’ll activate the Event Admin context sending to the event authors email.

March 1, 2016 at 7:51 am

Finally, I also have a question about “how to be sure that these email notifications don’t go to junk instead of emailbox?”

The short answer is to us a mail service that does that for you.

The problem with emails is you can be flagged as spam for multiple different reasons, if your using you hosts mail server (which is almost always offered as a convenience not a service) then your sharing that mail server with any number of users. If one of them causes the mail server to be flagged for spam, your email will also be flagged for spam.

Services such as the ones list here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/postmark-app-mandrill-transactional-email-handling-services/

Work to maintain their mail servers and prevent them from being black listed. You need to follow their terms and conditions to use their servers and in turn you can rely more heavily on those servers.

By the way I have another question, linked to this one. When I use some shortcode in my email notification such as [EVENT_LINK], the link is displayed in blue in the email. I would like to change the color because our color to indicate that there is a link is orange and not blue. Do you know how I can change this please?

This will need custom coding, I don’t think you can add in CSS within the message to change this easily but I’ll double check with the developers on this.

March 1, 2016 at 8:37 am

Concerning the link that appears in blue and I want to change to orange, it could be that EE4 has a general setting to fix that, no? We just would like that all text used in EE4 that has a link appears in orange instead of blue.

No there’s no General setting for this.

Are you referring to the front end view or within the messages (or both)?

The front end view (that your visitors see) should be controlled by your theme, the messages will need some custom CSS added to the message, however the HTML/CSS used within the emails is a little different than normal pages (for compatibility) so it may not be possible without creating a full templates for the emails.

March 1, 2016 at 10:51 am

You can swap out [EVENT_LINK] with the following:

<a href="[EVENT_URL]" style="color:orange;">[EVENT_NAME]</a>

March 2, 2016 at 2:41 am

I hadn’t even thought of just using inline styles! I’m glad Josh pointed that out, much easier 🙂

Any further problems just let us know.