Mailbeez After Sales Modules

[Hani]

Hi Mailbeez,

Awesome module, one of the best I've seen on ZC.

I have a question regarding the format of HTML messages. I'm testing the "no purchase" module and finding that txt messages are sending ok.

When I set my "copy-to" recipient to a HTML one. The messages are still sent ok, but the subject of the message appears to be getting inserting into the first line of the body text.

For example, it looks like this:

Email:
Subject field:
This is my subject.

Email body:
Header Image (logo.gif)
This is my subject

Dear $first, $last.

Message.
:end of email


Is there a way to stop the subject being inserted into the HTML body? So it can only be seen in the subject field?

Help appreciated.
Hani

[Ken Joy]

May I know what version of zencart you are using? It says it was tested on 1.3.8a but not 1.3.9d.

I'm using version 1.3.9h, and after install, I click on admin/tools/mailbeez and just get a blank screen. I downloaded the latest version from the mailbeez.com page (v. 1.7).

Any ideas? Thanks :)

[sweetikins]

My Cron Job Finally Works! Here's how:

If you are like me and this is your first cron job then the learning curve is steep. My web host said I need to prefix the URL with the path to the PHP module hence the /usr/bin/php at the beginning. They also said to use an absolute path instead of an http://xxx . But it's this last bit that actually got it working. The PHP variable "?" needed to be removed from the URL and left with a space.

So instead of:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/MYUSERNAME/PATH/mailhive.php?MYID=run

It became:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/MYUSERNAME/PATH/mailhive.php MYID=run

Took me a week to work it out. Hope your journey is shorter.
GREAT Module BTW!!

Cheers,
Rob

I just anted to say thank you for posting this, i have never used cron before and was having so much trouble and your solution worked perfectly, thank you so much

[lukelloyd]

Hiya All,

I just wanted to ask a few questions:

1. Im using noaccount module and ive set "Set days passed after account created" to 1 but it doesnt seem to get emails ready to send until the day after (ie 2 days not 1 day), is this correct?

2. On same module (noaccount) can i set that same setting (Set days passed after account created) to 0 to get emails sent the same day?

3. When i used to run the compaign manually using the url it showed a list of any emails in red that had already been sent. I then setup a cron job to run daily, now i dont seem to get that same report if i try and run the campaign manually again - what could be the cause of this?

4. Is there anyway to run that same report from elsewhere so i can see at any time i want what emails have/haven't been sent?

Regards, Luke

[mailbeez]

The messages are still sent ok, but the subject of the message appears to be getting inserting into the first line of the body text.

hi hani,

sorry for the late reply.

MailBeez is using ZenCart's Mail system and it's template.

If not configured different it should use the zencart email template

(zencart)/email/email_template_default.html

There the subject is inserted into the message.

So you need to adopt the zencart email templates to remove the subject from the body.

hope this helps
cord

[mailbeez]

I'm using version 1.3.9h, and after install, I click on admin/tools/mailbeez and just get a blank screen. I downloaded the latest version from the mailbeez.com page (v. 1.7).

Any ideas? Thanks :)

Hi ken, need to try MailBeez with version 1.3.9h, but do not expect issues (might be wrong though )

on the last page someone reported the same issue (which I couldn't replicate yet), but may this helps to find out what happens?

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=169

I assume you have seen the install-button once?


Try to add

error_reporting(E_ALL) 

at the very top AFTER

 require('includes/application_top.php'); 

of

admin/mailbeez.php

do you get any error message?

enjoy mailbeez
cord

[mailbeez]

Hiya All,

I just wanted to ask a few questions:

1. Im using noaccount module and ive set "Set days passed after account created" to 1 but it doesnt seem to get emails ready to send until the day after (ie 2 days not 1 day), is this correct?

2. On same module (noaccount) can i set that same setting (Set days passed after account created) to 0 to get emails sent the same day?

3. When i used to run the compaign manually using the url it showed a list of any emails in red that had already been sent. I then setup a cron job to run daily, now i dont seem to get that same report if i try and run the campaign manually again - what could be the cause of this?

4. Is there anyway to run that same report from elsewhere so i can see at any time i want what emails have/haven't been sent?

Regards, Luke

hi Luke,

1. I assume you mean the "nopurchase" module?
The date-calculation takes complete days passed - you can enter whatever you like - also e.g. "0.5" should work (haven't tried) The calculation is done from "now" where "now" is the point of time MailBeez is triggered to send eamils

2. if you set it to 0 it will send right away when mailbeez is triggered. this could cause someone getting the email while just have signed up, but havn't completed the order yet. I woudl recommend a delay to avoid this.

3. I assume you have upgraded the nopurchase module? An early check was introduced, which already checks while building the list if the customers was sent the email to - before this check was done while sending, resulting in the red lines. So it is not connected to manually / cron job

4. currently only in the table mailbeez_tracking.
The next release (V2.0) of MailBeez will support reports to make it easier to see what has happened. Hope I will be able to release it this month.

cheers & enjoy mailbeez
cord

[Ken Joy]

I assume you have seen the install-button once?


Try to add

error_reporting(E_ALL) 

at the very top AFTER

 require('includes/application_top.php'); 

of

admin/mailbeez.php

do you get any error message?

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, ALL occurrences of mailbeez.php look like this:

<?php
/**
* @package MailBeez
* @copyright 2010 MailBeez
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2010 Zen Cart Development Team
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: mailbeez.php 2010-08-21 kuroi $
*/

/*
MailBeez Automatic Trigger Email Campaigns
http://www.mailbeez.com

Copyright (c) 2010 MailBeez

inspired and in parts based on
Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

Released under the GNU General Public License
*/


define('TABLE_MAILBEEZ_TRACKING', DB_PREFIX . 'mailbeez_tracking');
define('TABLE_MAILBEEZ_BLOCK', DB_PREFIX . 'mailbeez_block');
define('FILENAME_MAILBEEZ', 'mailbeez'); // without .php extension!
define('FILENAME_HIVE', 'mailhive.php'); // with .php extension!


The ONLY file I have that resembles the content you suggested, is mailhive.php, not mailbeez.php, and it's located in the root folder where my index.php is located. I haven't modified the mailhive.php file because I didn't know if this was the file you actually meant, and where I should insert the code you provided.

To answer your other question, no, I've not ever seen the "install" button.

Thanks, for your help,

Ken

[mailbeez]

hi ken,

that file should be in

admin/extra_datafiles/

So I assume somehow you haven't copied the files properly

I just updated the zencart installation:

http://www.mailbeez.com/documentatio...tion-zen-cart/

I suggest you remove the current mailbeez files & folders and start fresh with the quickstart package (MailBeez V1.7) from mailbeez.com


does it work?

cord

[Ken Joy]

hi ken,

that file should be in

admin/extra_datafiles/

So I assume somehow you haven't copied the files properly

I just updated the zencart installation:

http://www.mailbeez.com/documentatio...tion-zen-cart/

I suggest you remove the current mailbeez files & folders and start fresh with the quickstart package (MailBeez V1.7) from mailbeez.com


does it work?

cord

Yes, thank you, that worked! Your updated install instructions were much clearer, and I was able to get everything installed and operational.

One more question?

Are the modules that comes with mailbeez (i.e., facebook review, review reminder, etc) the same ones that are listed separately in the free addons area on ZC? Just wondering if I need to also download and install those, or if mailbeez is self-contained as is.

Thanks!
Ken