Feature Request: "View this email in your Browser" and Public Archive of Previous Campaigns

[candideu]

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if there was an option for people to view an email in the browser (similar to #503 , #486 ).

Likewise, it would be great if there was a link to a webpage which listed previous campaigns and allowed visitors to click and preview them. As of now, previews can only be seen in the admin panel.

Here is an example with MailChimp. When someone clicks on "View this email in your browser", they're taken to a webpage like this:

From that page, they're able to view an archive of past newsletters:

This is useful to show potential subscribers what kind of content they can expect, and for easy sharing online.

[knadh]

It would be great if there was an option for people to view an email in the browser.

This already exists. Use the {{ MessageURL }} template tag to generate the URL.

Likewise, it would be great if there was a link to a webpage which listed previous campaigns and allowed visitors to click and preview them.

Yep, this will be good to have with an admin setting to toggle public archives.

[candideu]

This already exists. Use the {{ MessageURL }} template tag to generate the URL.

Oh, that's wonderful!! I just tried this out with a test campaign, however, I'm being prompted to log in:

[knadh]

Looks like the images are all pointing to incorrect URLs. /campaign/.../*.png. Are the images fine in your e-mail? Are you using the filesystem or s3 for images?

[candideu]

Looks like the images are all pointing to incorrect URLs. /campaign/.../*.png. Are the images fine in your e-mail? Are you using the filesystem or s3 for images?

Yup, that's normal since I just copy pasted the code from an existing template builder and didn't point the images to the a real URL. I just wanted to test out the {{ MessageURL }} function with a random template I had on hand.

The issue I'm seeing is that although using {{ MessageURL }} works (I used it in the "View in browser" link of the test), subscribers are being asked to log in when they click on the generated message URL.

[knadh]

The broken image links are relative and are incorrectly pointing to admin URLs, which is what is causing the login prompts.

[candideu]

Ohhh, I see! Tried it again with no images, and it works with no login prompts. As always, thank you for your timely help and great application!

[NicoHood]

How about integrating this into the upstream template? Looks like a common feature.

[knadh]

Yeah. This should ideally sit in the default template's footer. Will add this to the default template.