Re: [mv] HOWTO: carbon copy orders ?

[OTR Comm <otrcomm@wildapache.net>]

Do not want to use aliases or .forwards.  It is much easier to include
the 'new' email address on the ORDERS_TO line.  That way the store owner
has control over who gets the 'carbons'

Murrah Boswell

cfm@maine.com wrote:
> 
> Do it the easy way, bang it off a local alias.
> 
> If you are using qmail (for example) send all your orders
> to something like:
> .qmail-orders-<mystore>
> 
> Which maps orders to
> you@foo.com
> me@bar.net
> ./my_archive
> 
> You are running sendmail sendmail de'jour <bias revealed>; do the same
> with a .forward.  It's useful for testing too.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:34:24PM -0700, OTR Comm wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I saw in the archives a message from back in 1997 (posted by
> > rho@Austria.EU.net) that talked about how to create a carbon copy of
> > order notices.  It went like so:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > With below patch one can now define a line
> >
> > CCMailOrderTo s_email
> >
> > in catalog.cfg. This shall specify that an order will also be mailed as
> > Cc: to an address living in the scratch var "s_email". It is the
> > responsibility
> > of the application engineer to set it properly.
> >
> > # diff -r Vend.old Vend
> > diff -r Vend.old/Config.pm Vend/Config.pm
> > 79a80
> > > ['CCMailOrderTo', undef, ''],
> > Common subdirectories: Vend.old/Table and Vend/Table
> > diff -r Vend.old/Util.pm Vend/Util.pm
> > 556a557
> > > my ($cc) = '';
> > 561a563,568
> > > my $ccconfig = $Vend::Cfg->{'CCMailOrderTo'};
> > > $cc = "Cc: $Vend::Session->{'scratch'}->{$ccconfig}\n"
> > > if $Vend::Session->{'scratch'}->{$ccconfig};
> > >
> > >
> > 565c572
> > < print Vend::MAIL "To: $to\n", $reply, "Subject: $subject\n\n", $body
> >
> > ---
> > > print Vend::MAIL "To: $to\n", $cc, $reply, "Subject: $subject\n\n", $body
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I have tried to use this patch, but can not get it to work.  Actually, I
> > eliminated the ', $body' off the end of the print Vend... statement,
> > since this appears to be redundant for MV3.14-5 (i.e., $body gets added
> > later in the code).
> >
> > I have the Util.pm code in the sub send_mail.  The local variable
> > $ccconfig does evaluate to the proper 'CCMailOrderTo' address that I
> > defne in my catalog.cfg file, but
> > $Vend::Session->{'scratch'}->{$ccconfig} converts/evaluates this to ''
> > (i.e., nothing).  Consequently, $cc = $cc = "Cc:
> > $Vend::Session->{'scratch'}->{$ccconfig}\n" never gets activated.
> >
> > I am not sure how the $Vend::Session->{'scratch'} gets loaded, but it is
> > obvious that $ccconfig is not an element.
> >
> > I tried setting $cc = "$Vend::Cfg->{'CCMailOrderTo'}\n" and I can see in
> > my debugging log that $cc evaluates to the proper 'CCMailOrderTo'
> > address.  However, the user at the defined 'CCMailOrderTo' address does
> > not receive a copy.  The ORDERS_TO recipient does receive the message
> > and it shows that the 'CCMailOrderTo' address was CCed.
> >
> > Now, if I DO leave ', $body' in the 'print Vend...' statement, the
> > 'CCMailOrderTo' gets a copy, but the 'body' of the message is
> > duplicated.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea(s) about why this patch does not seem to work
> > on my system?  Is there another way to send a carbon copy without adding
> > another address to the ORDERS_TO variable?
> >
> > I am using sendmail-8.9.3 on a RedHat6.2 system.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Murrah Boswell
> >
> >
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> 
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