Remove Office Use Only

[lindasdd]

Sorry for such a silly question, but I couldn't find an answer so I figured having a thread would be helpful to others.

How do I remove the Office Use Only section from emails?

I find this incredibly annoying since I have to delete it from the email before responding. I'm not really even sure why anyone uses this.

Regards,
lindasdd

[RescoCCC]

The files to edit are:

includes/languages/english/email_extras.php

your_admin/includes/languages/english/email_extras.php

[lindasdd]

But aren't those just the defines? You can delete those or give them values of '' but the data will still populate in the email.



-lindasdd

[DrByte]

Question: Why do you need to delete it before responding? All the information therein is directly related to the person you're responding to.
Are you wanting to do this for ALL emails? Or is this isolated to just Contact Us requests?
Again: why?

[lindasdd]

I want to do this for all emails.

"Why do you need to delete it before responding? All the information therein is directly related to the person you're responding to."

1. I think it is a turn off for customers to see they are being so explicitly tracked / recorded.

2. It has no actual purpose for us and therefore is just extra clutter. Since it isn't used, the downsides of #1 aren't worth it.

I guess if adding a similar footer to emails was a standard web practice I wouldn't be as concerned, but I've never seen people do this outside of a ZenCart install.

-lindasdd

[RescoCCC]

but I've never seen people do this outside of a ZenCart install.

Every shopping cart I've ever used or worked with has provided that additional for internal use information. It can be very useful if there's ever a problem down the road.

[DrByte]

I won't be surprised if it comes back to bite you one day, but if you wish to never have that information kept for you, you can turn it off by hacking the code in functions_email.php, by adding the line shown here:

  function email_collect_extra_info($from, $email_from, $login, $login_email, $login_phone='', $login_fax='') {
    return array(); // I ADDED THIS TO disable normal functionality
    // get host_address from either session or one time for both email types to save server load

[lindasdd]

I'll try that out, thanks for the help.

-lindasdd