Hi,

today I want to start the day with a small tutorial. A collegue of mine (thank you Andi) has found out, how you can avoid that links that where generated by TYPO3 are broken in emails. A good example is the newsletter registration. If you don't configure the links correctly the user will get a confirmation link like:

www.mypage.de/index.php&
rU=203&fD[_FIELDLIST]=uid&fD[hidden]=0&aC=118ebe13

That can't be the kind of link you want! But there is a feature in TYPO3 to avoid this. It calculates a checksum from the arguments and save thaem in the database. Now the link only contains this checksum. So it's shorter and won't be broken in the mail client. Iff the user clicks on the link, TYPO3 searches for teh checksum in the database and fetches the orginal arguments and loads the needed page.

All you have to do to enable this feature is to add the following line to your TypoScript Setup:

config.notification_email_urlmode = all

The value for this option can be

• empty: The URL won't be touched at all
• <strog>76: Links that are longer 76 chracters are stored in the database
• <strog>all: All links that starts with "http://" are stored in the database

I hope that this small How-To helps those people who doesn't know this before! :-)

Greets,

Thomas