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New Features Discussion / Re: Email testing feature or extension
« on: March 10, 2014, 12:42:21 AM »
If you mean the wrapper that would temporarily substitute all the recipient's (customers) addresses in outgoing mails with an arbitrary address specified by the admin, actually we already can test the outgoing mail with a single (test) customer operation, without changing any configuration system wide.
If there were issues sending per our email configuration, we get the error in the panel and error log file, currently.
What is the purpose of such a test mode per session ?
We thought the user was interested in the real-time monitoring, sending a test email to a specified external address at a fixed interval (eg daily).
She could achieve this without the feature/extension, by planting a script on her server that would be using the same email configuration as in her cart.
But then again, if Joel's concern includes public servers like Google,  the Google would be the first mail server that would consider such same-text repetitive mails as spam if it keeps hitting your test gmail address.  :-\

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General Support / Re: Display Logo for PDF files
« on: March 07, 2014, 04:19:23 PM »
hi, not sure we understood it correctly:  if you mean images of a product (shown in product listings) or images of your product categories (shown in menu block "Category"), than you just need to use image files in .JPG or .GIF graphic format, rather than .PDF.   Otherwise, if you could post a screenshot, it would help better understand your issue.

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Support / Re: add new tab for Product Description tab
« on: March 07, 2014, 03:59:46 PM »
hi,  we have this extension, and it does NOT allow you to use html tags like you do in the Product description; looks like you need another solution for this.

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New Features Discussion / Re: Email testing feature or extension
« on: March 07, 2014, 02:53:41 AM »
One easy way to test your email system is by pressing 'approve' next to your test/demo customer in Admin > Sales > Customers, when your in doubt.
An extension repeatedly sending the same 'test' email to the store owner at a fixed interval too often,  may end up your store address being treated as spam and hence blocked, so it's a mixed blessing...

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Customization help / Re: Can't submit my sitemap
« on: February 14, 2014, 10:48:16 AM »
What your submitting isn't actually a "sitemap" in the search engine's terms  but a usual HTML page.
Content/sitemap page was designed by AC to serve as a site map for the humans but not for the search engines.
What you need is an XML sitemap file created in line with Sitemap Protocol.
You can make it yourselves, or purchase an extension "Google Sitemap" available in the marketplace.   
Please refer to this thread for details:    http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php?topic=1529

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Support / Re: Does anyone else use the cart's SMTP mailer?
« on: February 14, 2014, 10:34:05 AM »
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Is there anyway to get the MAIL function to send from a real email account rather than username@serverhostname?

Yes, just switch to SMTP in Abantecart's  System>Settings>Mail and specify your real email account credentials there.
It works well -- on except of the issue with new registration confirmation emails discussed in this thread.

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General Support / Re: Act on behalf of customer not working
« on: February 05, 2014, 12:41:07 PM »
   Public function actonbehalf() is called from:
~/public_html/admin/controller/pages/sale/customer_transaction.php
~/public_html/admin/controller/pages/sale/customer.php

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Support / Re: Does anyone else use the cart's SMTP mailer?
« on: February 02, 2014, 03:05:40 PM »
Same here, all we could find was that welcome emails seem to originate from storefront/controller/pages/account/create.php  but there's a part that appears to be correct:
$mail->setFrom($this->config->get('store_main_email'));

There's also core/lib/mail.php that seems to control smtp having this code:
if ($this->verp) {
                                        fputs($handle, 'MAIL FROM: <' . $this->from . '>XVERP' . $this->crlf);
                                } else {
                                        fputs($handle, 'MAIL FROM: <' . $this->from . '>' . $this->crlf);
                                }
It also appears to be correct because the store's email is shown correctly in From: of other SMTP notifications (like Order's).
If there's a bug in the code related to Welcome emails only, it should be possible to reproduce it on the developers QA installations.

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Support / Re: Does anyone else use the cart's SMTP mailer?
« on: February 02, 2014, 02:05:05 PM »
Quote from: gordontaylor on February 02, 2014, 12:50:28 PM
When I was using HostGator they limited you to 100 SMTP emails per day PERIOD, no matter what the reason.

We heard of Host Gator as very aggressive hoster in many aspects; and those 100 emails a day would be limiting all your emails, no matter what setting you have in the cart, Mail or Smtp.    1 welcome email + 1 approval + 1 order notification + 1 status change + 1 something else = at minimum 5 emails per customer,  plus the admin herself doing a lot of testing   :D

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Support / Re: Does anyone else use the cart's SMTP mailer?
« on: February 02, 2014, 01:53:12 PM »
Quote from: gordontaylor on February 02, 2014, 12:50:28 PM
One reason for the SMTP is that MANY hosting companies limit the amount of SMTP mail you can send, some even as little as 25 per day...to avoid people setting up spam machines, or so I'm told by my hosting company.

We always thought spammers are more likely to simply send via server's sendmail using the php mail() function (which is the default Abantecart "Mail" option) rather than do complex coding of opening sockets and posting SMTP commands;   but surely, they could exploit both  :(
Thinking about the 25 threshold a day, that would appear way too strict a requirement really, though many of our shops would probably easily fit even that :)   
FWIW, if your hoster sets one, it probably works via Sendmail/Exim/Qmail mailer settings, managed by hosting panels like these:
  http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/WHMDocs/MailLimitingFeatures
  http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/WHMDocs/PreventEmailAbuse
As you can see, that would be limiting both ways of sending,  Mail and SMTP ;  and a legitimate sender like e-commerce store owner can easily make a request to have their limit adjusted per their domain account, as this is not a rigid server-wide setting.

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Extension Support / Re: No reviews at Marketplace?
« on: February 02, 2014, 11:55:58 AM »
Thank you so much for the notice, and for your hard work abantecart !

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Support / Re: Does anyone else use the cart's SMTP mailer?
« on: February 02, 2014, 11:22:47 AM »
What is really surprising is how few AbanteCart users seem to use SMTP php mailer, on reason unknown. Compared to the default Mail option (server's OS mailer), the cart's SMTP has clear advantages:
- the default server's Mail sends out the notifications on behalf of your ftpuser@servername address, disclosing that;
- SMTP sends all the notifications from your official cart's mailbox@domain.com instead;
- unlike Mail, your SMTP's mailbox service@domain.com will also receive incoming messages (replies back) from your consumers;
- default Mail option is much more likely to end up in consumer's mailbox Spam folder than the SMTP.
All except of this issue with Welcome emails.

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Support / Re: Does anyone else use the cart's SMTP mailer?
« on: February 02, 2014, 10:44:05 AM »
The issue's the same in the 1.1.7...  In the release notes for 1.1.8 we've seen the following bugfix in core:
"AMail lib fix related to unicode subject and sender name"
http://www.abantecart.com/shopping-cart-news/125-abantecart-new-version-118
Does the fix have anything to do with the bug discussed in this thread? 
Customers having "From:" header empty in their new registration confirmation email (sent via SMTP).

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Support / Re: Apostrophe in some fields SQL saving issue 1.18.
« on: February 02, 2014, 10:31:41 AM »
they say meta tag keywords and meta descriptions do not matter much for the search engines today... so you could drop using these fields altogether

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Support / Re: Products Purchased Report not working
« on: February 02, 2014, 09:27:07 AM »
The only minor problem with Reports would be for the cart to learn telling  robots from  human visitors.
Judging by unrealistic banner statistics at Reports > Banner Statistic : Viewed,  this is the case as of yet.
Using GA's cookie technique may not be necessary   if the statistics was linked to explicit clicks and the keyword searches made in the cart.
We think own AC's reporting (even if limited) could be the most accurate one, compared to outsourcing it to any of the 3rd parties.

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