Email

Oh, yeah. Email. There are numerous of events that send email in Magento. We speak about some of them and new ones that you might want.

Enabling Multi-part MIME Emails in Magento

By: Tomislav Nikcevski, Last updated: Oct 22, 2019 | Published: May 04, 2016

This article will explain steps needed for altering Magento transactional emails in order to support Multi-part mime emails. Which means that those emails will support both Text and HTMl versions of email. Core for handling multipart data is already implemented in Zend_Mime module, so there is no need for writing code that will handle necessary headers and boundary for multipart implementation.

So let’s get to it!

Extending “Contact us” functionality in Magento

By: Ivan Bernatovic, Last updated: Aug 28, 2023 | Published: Feb 24, 2016

One of the most important aspects of any business is customer support. It is important to enable your customers to easily reach to you if they need to contact you.

Out of the box Magento offers nice form on “Contact us” page where customers can enter their info and submit support request without opening their email client and searching for your customer service email.

However, sometimes that’s not enough. Depending of your business type and size, you may want to split your customer support into departments to improve your efficiency of solving support requests.

Luckily, it’s not complicated so let’s start!

Magento’s transactional eMails do-s and don’t-s

By: Adrian Bece, Last updated: Sep 27, 2019 | Published: Feb 02, 2016

Editing and styling Magento’s transactional eMails and eMails in general can be a real headache. There are numerous reasons for that, for example the number of eMail clients available that have their own quirks and the complicated workflow of the testing process. This article will cover some of the general advices and tricks that will, hopefully, help you in development. These aren’t some general rules for the most part, but advices and guidelines that you may or may not use, which I discovered during my work on various projects.

Product Stock Alerts (not) working

By: Ivan Galambos, Last updated: Aug 28, 2023 | Published: Apr 26, 2013

Recently one of our clients had contacted us and said that ProductAlert functionality doesn’t work any more. After I investigated the situation I saw that last email regarding to Stock Alerts was sent several months ago. In the meantime we’ve upgraded the site to Magento EE and at first I thought that maybe during the upgrade something went wrong. Other thought was that maybe client has modified Transactional Email Template… After reviewing log files I couldn’t find anything related to those emails. System did send other emails though.

During the investigation I saw on forums that other developers have similar issue that weren’t resolved yet. After tracing and looking what might have gone wrong we’ve found…

Installation and configuration of local Mail server for Windows (hMail Server)

By: Nikola Stojiljkovic, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: Mar 17, 2012

This is not exactly Magento related post, but it might be useful when you are setting up a dev environment on your local machine. There are many good and free mail servers out there which are relatively easy to install on your Windows machine, but the problems may occur when you try to configure all the bits and pieces of your system so you can actually use your local mail server for something other than producing system errors 🙂 .

When I started working with PHP a long time ago, I was (naturally) looking for a mail server that could be used on my local machine. For some reason that is now long forgotten, I have decided to use hMail Server (freeware). Since it never failed me, it stayed in my standard set of must-have tools. In this post I’ll try to present a step-by-step manual on how to install and configure your system to use hMail Server.

Emulate store in Magento

By: Ivan Weiler, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: May 26, 2011

Magento 1.5 introduced very interesting piece of code that enables easy store emulation when programming, Emulation model a.k.a. Mage_Core_Model_App_Emulation class.

How to disable email sending when programatically creating an order in Magento

By: Vedran Subotic, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: Jul 23, 2010

Here is a little snippet of code that can come in handy if you are like me handling a task of programatically creating an order in Magento.

Custom email server (transport) with Magento

By: Branko Ajzele, Last updated: Oct 22, 2019 | Published: Mar 12, 2010

Magento has quite interesting email sending capabilities. However, those are more in terms of email templates then selecting a non-built in email server. Sometimes, your web hosting might have separate mail server and even the simple php send mail does not work. In such cases you are forced to use an external mail server that supports SMTP. Good example of this is a Gmail.

Magento custom emails

By: Branko Ajzele, Last updated: Oct 23, 2019 | Published: Jun 08, 2009

Ever wanted to “just send the email” using the built in email features in Magento? Ever hit the wall trying to do something with Magento? OK, I know the answer to the other one, just had to ask :). Anyhow, sending the emails with Magento turned out to be a process of “just” a few hours of tracing Magento code.

Custom checkout cart – How to send email after successful checkout

By: Branko Ajzele, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: Feb 18, 2009

Recently I have been working on a custom checkout page for one of our clients in Sweden. I had some trouble figuring out how to send default Magento order email with all of the order info. After an hour or so of studying Magento core code, here is the solution on how to send email after successful order has been made.