Comments on: Creating sane plain text sales transactional e-mails in Magento

By: jakc

jakc — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:38:46 +0000

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By: John

John — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:42:50 +0000

Thank you so much! This helped me get through another one of the stresses of Magento!

By: molecule

molecule — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:24:42 +0000

This was working great until the last few months, a lot of my emails were getting sent to customers spam boxes, despite the benefits of the multipart emails. This has been fixed by using the SMTP Pro (free) extension from :
http://www.aschroder.com/2011/03/magento-amazon-simple-email-service-ses-added-to-smtp-pro-1-4-3/#downloads

This basically makes it possible to send authenticated SMTP email from your own email server, it seems a lot of email blacklists have recently ramped up the spam count if you are not using authenticated SMTP (the magento default is non-auth).

It is fairly simple to edit ash’s code for multipart emails a la this article; there is also another post out there where some dude reduces the line length from the 200 char max to 72 and sets some anti-spam flag. Also recommended.

Then: happy days! Emails that are multipart and actually reach your customers!

By: slima

slima — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:03:54 +0000

Hello,

This hack seems not work with Magento 1.4.2.0
But problem in plain/text email is still there.

The itemstext.phtml is working fine but problem is in the addresstext.html I think.

{{block type=’core/template’ area=’frontend’
template=’email/order/addresstext.phtml’ address=$order.getBillingAddress()}}

and

{{block type=’core/template’ area=’frontend’ template=’email/order/addresstext.phtml’ address=$order.getShippingAddress()}}

Return null

Can you help me with that?

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:51:45 +0000

Try {{var order.getPayment().getMethodInstance().getTitle()}} – I’m using that for a client’s shop to good effect.

By: Frank Welsch-Lehmann

Frank Welsch-Lehmann — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:12:39 +0000

Hi Nicholas,
this solution works really nice and gives a lot of flexibility.

a) Have you ever managed to modify the template in a way to also show the custom options for a product?

b) How would I have to define the “number_format($order->getSubtotal(), 2); ” to use german conventions (of . and ,)?

Thanks,
FrankW

By: Wo bekomme ich Hilfe, wenn ich die Transaktionsmails bearbeiten will? | blog.erikkothe.de

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:08:53 +0000

[...] bekommen, kann man auch seine eigenes E-Mail Template erstellen. Eine kleine Einführung ist unter http://nicholas.piasecki.name/blog/2009/10/creating-sane-plain-text-sales-transactional-e-mails-in-m... zu finden. Tags: magento, template, transaktionsmail Kommentar schreiben Kommentare (0) [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:38:33 +0000

Thanks, you’ve really helped me a lot!

The only thing I need now is to get the payment method in the mail, because it contains the banking details for payment-in-advance-orders.

But {{var payment_html}} outputs everything with tags and {{var paymentMethod}} is empty…

By: molecule

molecule — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:52:38 +0000

Thanks a lot for this, I posted a link and some of the code in a magento discussion here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/25075/P15/

Hope you don’t mind.

By: Sim

Sim — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:32:57 +0000

I love your article! A very simple and effective solution to my simple text email problem. HOWEVER…

My Magento has a custom checkout module installed (custom fields in the review step of checkout), and I have spent many hours already trying to figure out how to get the data generated by these fields to print up in the new order email along with the shipping info and order details. If I know the name of the database table where the custom info is being stored (custom_attribute_description) what sort of code should I use to echo the data onto the new order email? Your help is greatly appreciated!