I would like to know if there's any way I can send a automatic answer to client when I open them mail who's comming from my website ?
Anybody have sugestion ?
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I Have a online cart who send me a
e-mail when I receive order, I would
like that when I open the order
there's a email automaticly been sent
to the client to tell him that i've
took his order. Like when you open a
e-mail and that tell you that the
sender asked to receive a confirmation
that you've received the mail.
For resume I would like that when I receive a order mail, and open it there anoter email who's sent directly to the client telling him that i've openned his order and processing it.
You can create a script on your website, for example 'mysite.com/confirmread.php'. In this script you can write code to send an e-mail to the customer.
Then, in the e-mail that is sent to you on the customer's order, you can create a link towards this script. You can click the link then, for example: 'mysite.com/confirmread.php?ordernr=2883992' or 'mysite.com/confirmread.php?mail=customer#domain.com'.
Another way might be an automatic script that is fired once you open your e-mail. I'm thinking of a javascript / ajax script, which calls the same script (confirmread.php), but without you having to click the link. I'm not sure to which extent scripting is supported in e-mail clients (think of the difference between online vs offline mail clients).
You can, of course, also reply the e-mail to another address of your own. For example sale#mysite.com. This address can then be read by the PHP script. But I guess that's more complex.
You have to hook into the IMAP server and check the status of the emails periodically. And when on changes its status from unread to read you can send an email. But this means you have to track the status of the emails in a separate database against this DB you have to check then if the email was already read.
Better solution:
Add into your order mail a link at the bottom which links to a script which sends an email to the customer. So, you have to manually trigger this email but its very easy to implement.
Example in pseudo code:
Link at the bottom of the order email:
yourserver.com/sendEmailThatOrderWasReceived.php?orderid=123&customerEmail=test#example.com
Script on your server:
<?php
mail($_REQUEST['customerEmail'], 'Order '.$_REQUEST['oderId'].' is confirmed', 'Thank you for your order, we had a look at it.');
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I have a website that let users subscribe with their email IDs.
I want to create a cron job that checks the bounced emails via imap connection, and I am using PHP class for that.
The cron job's script supposed to search for emails from "Mail delivery system" and scan the body of the email to detect the invalid email ID in order to mark it in mysql database.
I don't have any problem with IMAP connection or search, but the problem is: I can't find the pattern that the script should look for to define where is the invalid email ID written in the message.
Could you please help me what shall the script look for? (e.g. some word that the email ID will come after or before? Or maybe an HTML tag in the body of the message that carries the invalid email ID)
Thanks for the help
I'm a noob and seriously confused. I built a form for my website with a php script that validates and sends an email to me when someone fills it out. So, what is an auto-responder? Do I incorporate that some how with my php script, or do I not need the php script at all if I use an auto-responder? Thanks in advance
Autoresponder is automatic mail shooted back to the origin email box , it may contains information like "Thank you for email and will get back to you soon". It can be configured at the mail provider or you can also do the coding for the same. As any user submit the form and he has valid mail , just read his email id in the last and send him the thanks email immediately . Later you can see his feedback and reply again.
An autoresponder is used for automatically sending email notifications when something happens, like you just subscribed to something. Some web hosting companies such as GoDaddy offer autoresponder email features under cPanel. I'm pretty sure big names have them. Just configure it under cPanel. Another way to do this is having a local program check the database for new members and using the program to send email to the new members. I did the second option for educational purposes but the first one should be more efficient.
I'm in need of setting up an auto-response from an email account that I control, based on trigger words within the body of the email. But also, it needs to add/delete rows from a database table based on trigger words sent to this email account (that belongs to my site) and it needs to create a topic, in some cases, within a forum, if sent to a different email address (but on the same server). I know PHP to be able to do this, but not really sure how to trigger a PHP script to be executed when an email gets sent to a specific email address account that I control. Or if there is another solution to accomplish this, please let me know.
This is basically an inquiry on how to accomplish something like this, based on an email sent to a specific email address on my server with words like: "Join", "Leave", "Set Mail", "Set Digest", etc. etc.
There will be another email address account set aside that will need to send those subscribers in the database, the same exact email (Mass Send). This is for a CDB-L ListServ. Kind of old school I suppose, but we want to transfer this ability to our server, since these old school methods still work today and is very much active.
Curious on security issues, what type of server software I'll need and just a basic approach on how to set something like this up.
You can alias your email address directly to a php script if you run your own mail server (on linux this would just be in the /etc/alias file or equivalent where the target was your php script instead of an email address) eg http://www.topwebhosts.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=server_mgmt&wr_id=73
If not, then your only real choice is to set up a php process that checks an email address for mail every x minutes.
I have used both these methods over the years to great success
You can walk through emails with PHP's IMAP functions and undertake action (based on conditions/content). More info.
I am building a basic support request system where the customer can log in and ask a question and an admin can go in and reply and it will set the status to "Responded" and e-mail the customer to let them know someone has responded.
My question is.. I have a "comments" section which is a log of the interaction between the admin and the customer. If I e-mail the customer the initial response from the admin, then I have a feeling they will just hit "Reply" from their email and start communicating through there, and the logs won't be stored.
I could either e-mail the customer and say "Log in to view the response", or maybe if the customer does hit reply I can somehow track it and insert that in the comments table like they did it from the website. If that is even possible?
Just wondering if there is a standard way to do this and any suggestions you may have.
Thanks!
When sending the email to the user you can have it sent from an email address created for that specific ticket. Something that can identify it with your email system to help you route it back to the php ticketing system.
support(ticketnumber)#domain
support12345#mydomain.com
Then it depends on your email server how to go from there.
There are several useful tips at this question that may help or get your started.
How to get email and their attachments from PHP
If you want their reply to be automatically inserted into the DB, you'll have a assign a cron job in your server to run a php script to detect whether there's a reply from a customer (you need a table listing the customers' email and names.
Each time a customer uses the ticket system their email and name goes into this table).
You'll need to connect to your Inbox too via imap or SMTP, and there are scripts to do this (phpmailer, swiftmailer, etc) and "walk" through each email and see if the sender email matches any in your customers table. Then so an INSERT to the comments table.
Anther way is to read through the emails each time the comments page is loaded, but this will cause the page to take longer to load. However, the data will always be more "real-time" compared to cron jobs.
You could use email piping (if your server supports it).
In the subject, you'd have a unique identifier which contains the ticket ID or something unique to the ticket. Example: "How do I eat food [Question: #1234]", where 1234 is the ticket ID.
In your control panel, you would set up an email forwarder to your email piping script.
This tutorial offers the basics to email piping, and I used it as the base for my piping script: http://www.damnsemicolon.com/php/parse-emails-in-php-with-email-piping-part-1
I have a php script which sends user a mail if his purchase is successful. The problem is it the page loads slow due to mail(). I know there are ways like putting the mails in a database table and then using a cron job to send them but the frequency of purchase can be high and I want the mail to be sent right away, so that doesn't look like a good option.
The purchase request gets processed by the same page from where he purchased and he can only do so once. The user doesn't control any part of mail other than the purchase details. I thought of using Ajax, the script would send the data to client side and call a ajax function which then calls another mail script but this would let user know what is being sent and can be tampered. Is there any other way I can use Ajax safely without letting user know whats being sent and where? And are there any better workarounds?
mail() should return immediately upon queuing the message to your mail server, which (generally) should take no time at all, so I think your problem here is definitely the mail server and not your PHP. I'm guessing that the mail server you're submitting to is running some anti-spam checks, like reverse DNS lookups. It might also be throttling you based on usage. Can you try sending through another mail server to verify?
Also, if you have shell access, try sending a message from the shell (e.g., echo test | mail -v -s test me#whatever.com) to see what it's doing and how long it takes.
Edit: Just noticed your comment re: Windows. In this case, at least you can try a telnet from the PHP server to port 25 on the mail host to see how long it takes to connect and get the 220 greeting header. (I bet you'll connect immediately but won't get the 220 header for a while.)
You're on to the right idea. Here's what I would do in this scenario:
The user makes a purchase (no ajax unless you want to at this point)
In processing that purchase an email is inserted into the email table with an "id" & "sent" column plus all the other stuff.
User is brought to a success page
The success page kicks off ajax in the background to send the email with that id from the db - and doesn't care about the result
The php page in charge of emailing sends the email and marks the sent column
If someone ever makes a call to your database with an id that's not sent, that email needed to get sent out anyway, so it's ok. If the id doesn't match or the sent column is marked true, you can ignore it. No worries about people trying to send spam using your system.