It’s definitly the nickname field who is responsable for the issue. If a user changed the nickname from ‘Peter’ to ‘Peter (123)’ and saved his profile the bug will come up. If you changed again, everything works fine for composing messages.
I tested on my other site where users often use brackets in ‘Last Name’ field. Sometimes they change the ‘Last Name’ field because they change their degree to the fictive name. Because they do not have access to the backend, it happens that the ‘Display name publicity as’ field keeps the information of the ‘Nickname’ field.
This situation is responsable for the bug. As I deleted the brackets and last changed the ‘Display name publicity as’ field too, message composing worked like a charme.
It would be great if you could reproduce the issue I described.
I found out that mandrillapp.com works as SMTP service with BuddyPress because of replacing all line feeds ("\n") by <br/> in the message body. The issue there is that mandrillapp.com will become an AddOn of MailChimp with day of 27th April this year.
For this reason I searched for another SMTP service and tried SendGrid. Both SMTP services can use individual HTML templates, not from BuddyPress but you can style it within your account there. For now SendGrid cannot replace the line feeds as mandrillapp.com does but I contacted the support team of SendGrid and they will work on a solution for it. Hope to get the solution soon.
As you can see, a user tries to compose a private message and enter the first letter of a friend. The name appears and the user clicks on it. You will see a space between the name and the profile symbole. The message cannot be sent.
After this, the user visits the profile of the person he wants to send a private message and clicks on private message. Now the name appears right without any space between name and profile symbole and the message can be sent successfully.
Do you understand the issue better now?
I used the theme Twenty Fourteen for testing. And unfortunately the built-in Emails in BP v2.5.1 doesn’t work for me, but can’t say why. Before I updated to BP v2.5.x everything worked like a charme and updated because of the new features inBP v2.5.x
You are right but the author is not available for six months so I must find another way. Do you now which page is responsible in the standard BuddyPress theme? Is it easy to copy the responsible section of the plugin into the section of the Huddle theme?
I’ve still a similar problem, see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/error-with-forum-bp-v1-2-5-2/ butte didn’t getany response yet. I use a windows 2003 Server System with the following plugins installed: Akismet, BP Xtra Signup, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Album+, BuddyPress Forums Extras – RSS Feeds, Buddypress Friends, BuddyPress Profile Privacy, BuddyPress Tweet Button, Configure SMTP, Duplicate Post, Easy Verification, Fast Secure Contact Form, Invite Anyone, Jet Event System for BuddyPress, Link Library, My Brand Login, NextGEN Gallery, oEmbed for BuddyPress, TinyMCE Advanced, Transposh Translation Filter, Welcome Pack, WP Google Weather
