Questions tagged [transactional-email]
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Mandrill - The difference between global_merge_vars and normal merge_vars
I've looked at this Mandrill knowledgebase article over and over and cannot see any obvious explanation of what the difference is between Global Merge Vars and Merge Vars, and when I should use global vs normal.
Both global_merge_vars and merge_vars…

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Will Setting a Reply To Address at a Different Domain Result in Spam
I send transactional emails from my application on my customers behalf. I'd like for the receiver to be able to click reply and have the reply go directly to my customer, without ever touching my server.
If I send an email from me@myapp.com with the…

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AWS-SES: How to set the display name for the sender address
I am using aws-ses for transactional mailing.
And the email address has this format:
noreply@domain_name.com
The problem is that when the users receive their emails, they see that the sender's name is "noreply" but I'd like to change it to…

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Iterating through array in SendGrid email template
I'm trying to iterate through a collection and display information in a SendGrid template using Ruby on Rails.
recipient = SendGrid::Recipient.new("sergio@gmail.com")
recipient.add_substitution("username",…

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How to convert MailChimp designed campaign into a template in Mandrill?
I want to convert my MailChimp campaign into Mandrill template. So that I can use the MailChimp template to send Mandrill transactional email. I designed the campaign with drag-n-drop tools in Mailchimp.

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GMX's "Text Pattern Profiler" blocks transactional emails in English
My web application is sending transactional emails to its users (like "You received a payment", "Please activate your account", "Your article has been sold"). GMX users report regularly that those emails are marked as SPAM because of the "Text…

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How can I send transactional email using sendy with ruby on rails
I am developing ruby on rails application and using sendy with amazon ses for marketing campaign.
Is it possible that I will integrate this sendy server as my transactional emails which I am using in my ruby on rails development for welcome email,…

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Editing Magento order confirmation email
I am looking to edit the block of the email that contains the order totals (shipping, grand total), but cant find the template file for this bit of code
I need to remove shipping and grand total lines, only showing subtotal lines
I have checked the…

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Inline / embedding attachments into email results in spam? Is this true?
When sending out one-to-one or transactional emails (i.e. verification emails), can we include an inline / embedded attachment. Which is an image that displays our logo on the top of the email (HTML format of course).
I've read a few articles…

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Transactional Email Service on Azure
Does azure not have a native transactional email service which we can make use of? Currently all aspects of my platform are hosted within azure. Just feels silly going off to a 3rd party for such a simple task.

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Sendmail Exception reached when thousands emails sent in bulk mail script. Has sendmail a email-sent limit for a given process?
I am a little desperate with a problem in our web server. Our web is a community with a lot of users and activity. We send to users personalized mails of the activity of their interest. We have a problem in the script that handles these…

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Magento 1.9 Transactional Email Variable Edit
So ive tried for 2 months to find the source of my headache to no avail.
Within magentos default transactional emails is for example the "Wishlist" Email, triggered on user input to fill with the specified list of products in the users wishlist and…

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Add replyTo in Magento Transactional Email
What I'm trying to do is to add a replyto field to the core transactional emails of magento. Something like what was archieved in this post with bcc, but for replyTo. Any ideia?
Update:
Just to clarify this a little. In the magento TEMPLATE class it…

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Mandrill Adding a Space to a URL
Using Mandrill I'm sending an email that has a link:
http://www.slotted.co/NzIyNnx0c2NvdHRAc2xvdHRlZC5jbw==
As expected Mandrill replaces my HREF with a tracking…

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Magento Transactional Emails get saved incorrectly and changed when saving from Admin (CMS).
Magento Transactional Emails (from Admin)
How do I get Magento to save the templates exactly how they are entered in Admin? For me it drops \ that escape characters in the code making it impossible for Magneto to re-open the template once its saved.…

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