Changing the email footer in Interspire Email Marketer

Posted April 14th, 2009 in Interspire Email Marketer

Interspire Email Marketer is an email marketing system I use; this post looks at how to change (or remove) the footer in the emails that appears after your email content. I needed to make this change myself because the image in the footer advertising Interspire was set up incorrectly and always appeared as a broken image.

The HTML for the footer by default looks like this:

<br>
<table bgcolor="" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0">
    <tr align="center">
        <td>
        <table bgcolor="white" width="450" border="0" cellpadding="5">
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <img border="0" src="/admin/images/poweredby.gif" alt="Powered by
Interspire" />
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Note that the image src is a relative URL, so it's not going to be able to render it when viewed in an email client.

Searching the source code I found a constant which sets the default footer in this file:
admin/com/language/default/whitelabel.php

However, changing that doesn't change the footer because it's actually a user setting. I can only assume that the constant is used when creating new user accounts as the default value for the footer.

To change the footer, click the "User Accounts" option in the top navigation and then the "Edit" link next to the user details. These are highlighted with the red boxes in the example screenshot below:

There are two fields which set the footer: one for the HTML and one for the plain text versions of the email. See the example screenshot below with the values which will be there from a default install.

Change these to what you want them to be and then save. The next time you send an email out as this user it will contain the modified footer. If you don't want the footer html or text then blank the fields out and save.