Email from the admin?

[Kristine]

When I change the password to my admin I get an email, but the subject says: ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT and the body of the email only has: ADMIN_EMAIL_TEXT ? Should that not contain a real subject and text?

[neil]

Yes.
ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT
Wherever you see capitals like that _ seperated by underscores you can bet these are variables which are dynamically produced by php & mysql.
I'd search your language directory - for the file that defines those variables.
Ok - In:
admin/includes/languages/english/admin_members.php
Line 71
define('ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'New Admin Member');

Any good text editor allows you to search files this way & show line numbers. I use TextPad - textpad.com

[Kristine]

well I found this, but what should I do with it??

define('ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'New Admin Member');
define('ADMIN_EMAIL_TEXT', 'Hi %s,' . "\n\n" . 'You can access the admin panel with the following password. Once you access the admin, please change your password!' . "\n\n" . 'Website : %s' . "\n" . 'Username: %s' . "\n" . 'Password: %s' . "\n\n" . 'Thanks!' . "\n" . '%s' . "\n\n" . 'This is an automated response, please do not reply!');

[neil]

Ok,
That is the text that is inserted into the "subject" & the "message body" of the email and that as it should be - so that file is OK.
I think what you have done is changed the file/s that actually generate the email and removed the strings 'ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT' & 'ADMIN_EMAIL_TEXT'.
Search the originals of the files you have changed for the strings 'ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT' & 'ADMIN_EMAIL_TEXT' & replace where necessary.
I'll have a look for the file/s as well that do that.

If you haven't already check out the info at:-
http://wiki.oscommerce.com/docs

Hi again,
There is a reference to those strings - 'ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT' & 'ADMIN_EMAIL_TEXT' in admin/admin_members.php on line 52.

The whole line is here:-
tep_mail($HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_firstname'] . ' ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_lastname'], $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_email_address'], ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT, sprintf(ADMIN_EMAIL_TEXT, $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_firstname'], HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_ADMIN, $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_email_address'], $makePassword, STORE_OWNER), STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

[Kristine]

the thing is, I haven't changed any files *as far as I know*
When I've signed up as a new customer all the emails have been fine, this only happened when I changed the password to the admin section?
I found the code mentioned above in admin/admin_members.php

          tep_mail($HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_firstname'] . ' ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_lastname'], $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_email_address'], ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT, sprintf(ADMIN_EMAIL_TEXT, $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_firstname'], HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_ADMIN, $HTTP_POST_VARS['admin_email_address'], $makePassword, STORE_OWNER), STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

I don't understand how this happened, I haven't been in any of these files??

[neil]

Strange,
It will usually only display the capitals seperated by underscores
eg. "STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS"
when this has been deleted from a file.
I assume you have define everything needed in admin/configuration for your store.
Have a re read of the notes with that contribution and see what you can find.

[Kristine]

ok maybe I need to define something?? But I have no idea what to do? Sorry! I don't know what contrib to look at for the readme notes??

[neil]

This MAY be happening if you use MIME email format as the default works great
To find the info.
Included in your download of MAX is a "contributions" directory or folder containing all the contribs used in MAX.
admin_21.zip has all the files + 2 read me files
NOTE: There are also 2 read me files by Michael Sasek in the top level of your MAX download which should / (must - I think) be read.

[Kristine]

yes, I figured that was the contib, I read those. I'll go re-read the ones by Michael maybe I'll come up with something?
Trust me when I say, I try to find the answers on my own before posting here.