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- A template is simply a named list of items to include, in order you want them to be shown.
- The template controls the email message body; the subject is fixed.
- Entries like
node.XYZ,event.ABCandlink.EFGare treated specially, but only if they are isolated separate items.
For example, the text entry "The lazy fox likes node.group" is not special because herenode.groupis part of a longer bit of text. - All non-special plain text items are included as-is, ie. for generating static header or footer text.
- You can write your texts either single- our double-quoted; within double-quoted strings all the standard backslash escapes work - e.g. "\t" for a tab character).
As these are all perl strings, the "@", "$" and "%" characters are special: within double-quoted strings you'll need to prefix those with a backslash. No such problems arise when you use single-quoted strings, but then no backslash escapes whatsoever are recognized in single-quoted strings. - Newlines are NOT created automatically. You have to include "\n" for that (within your double-quoted strings, or as separate item) whereever you want a line break.
- The line breaks in the actual template definition are not relevant.
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