| Email Options | Last Update: 23rd November, 2005
Article ID: 180 |
- Introduction
- E-Mail Options
- E-Mail Transport Method
- E-mail Linefeeds
- Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails
- Verifying E-mail Addresses through DNS
- Send E-mails
Introduction
There are a number of configuration options available to control how the emails are sent to the customer.
E-Mail Options
Figure 1 shows the
E-Mail Options listing page under the Admin>Configuration>E-Mail Options section.
Figure 1. E-Mail Options listing page under the Admin>Configuration>E-Mail Options section.
NOTE: To change the details click the "wrench graphic tool" under the "Action" column next to the "Title" being edited.
E-mail Transport Method
Sendmail
osCommerce is able to send emails containing HTML to the customer. Sendmail is a unix method of sending mails and smtp is used mostly on windows/mac servers. If the webserver is a windows server use smtp and if the webserver is unix based then use sendmail.
To ensure the correct functioning of the emails to be sent to the customers the following settings need to be set.- E-Mail Transport Method = Sendmail
- E-Mail Linefeeds = LF
SMTP
An SMTP mail server is most commonly used when hosting websites on Windows based servers.
To ensure the correct functioning of the emails to be sent to the customers the following settings need to be set.
- E-Mail Transport Method = SMTP
- E-Mail Linefeeds = CRLF
E-mail Linefeeds
Email Linefeeds defines the character sequence used to separate mail headers. Unix/Linux uses LF alone to separate lines (new line character) but Windows uses a combination of CR & LF ( CRLF Line feed).
Set to LF if you are on a Unix/Linux server and set to CRLF if you are on a Windows server.
Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails
Sending MIME type determines the content of mail like txt/html, txt/xml, etc. Set to true for HTML emails and false for pure text emails.
Note: This feature is still under development.
Verifying Email Addresses through DNS
osCommerce is able to verify email addresses by contacting the name server for a domain to ensure that it is setup to receive emails. This gives a good check to ensure invalid email addresses cant be entered.
Since all the email addresses contain the domain name (@domain.com), the existence of the domain name can be verified to make sure to some extent that the email id given by the user is valid. This is done through 'nslookup' command; however, this may not work on windows so keep it false on windows based servers.
Note: Some hosting companies disable this feature. If you are having problems when creating customer accounts set this option to False.
Send Emails
It is possible to disable the sending out of all emails to the customer. This is useful during the development and testing phases.
Set to true to send emails to the customer when they register or checkout after purchasing and set to false to disable the sending of emails to customers.
