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Customization, Integration / Post signup integration for affiliates ( kind of )

« on: August 27, 2007, 08:49:53 am »

Bump, any thoughts this, I kind of need this asap, thanks.

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Customization, Integration / Post signup integration for affiliates ( kind of )

« on: August 24, 2007, 02:08:51 pm »

Ok I think I haven't been clear about what I need because I think you are talking about something that I'm not...  That or I just don't understand what you are saying ( which is very possible lol).

Let me try to explain in more detail... ( sorry to post these URL's, but it might help if you see what I am talking about ).

I have about 10 members that I am letting use a copy of my site to promote their own biz... here is a sample of mine:

http://www.fastestcashevermembers.com/movie.php?ref_id=12345

And one that I made for a member:

http://www.fastestcashevermembers.com/movie.php?ref_id=45404

Ok, you'll see at the end of the page it has MY or THEIR contact info.  Right now what I am doing is simply creating files in "/public_html/users" that are called, "12345.php" and "45404.php" respectively which correspond to the member ID in the URL.  Then I simply call this code to include that users info on the page so members know who to contact:  

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include 'users/' . $_GET['ref_id'] . '.php';

This works great for the most part... now what I do is on the main page of the site, there is an opt-in form and it stores the ID# in a custom ListMail field, so on my followups I send them to the right members page, this way the follow ups work for any amount of people.  

Now all I need to do is:  When a potential lead fills out the opt-in form Listmail sends me the "List 24: New Signup! - test@test.com" email which is great.   But I also want this same exact email to goto the member whos ID# generated this signup.  So if that member is ID#45404 then the signup extra can open the "public_html/users/45404.php" file and extract the members email address in it and send the same notification email to them.

Now, I'm not opposed to putting the members in a separate Listmail List if that makes it easier.  The only problem with this is that I have one user that wants me to add her google conversion code in and by using the "45404.php" file included on the site I can easily do this just by adding her code to that file.  If they are in a Listmail List this might be more difficult? ( Unless I can store it in a custom field, but it's a lot of data ).

I don't need the member themselves to be able to change their info, etc.  They can just email me to do that ( now in the future if I do get more members it may be nice if they could ).

Let me know what you think, hope I made this more clear.

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Customization, Integration / Post signup integration for affiliates ( kind of )

« on: August 23, 2007, 01:46:53 pm »

I actually hadn't thought of putting all the affiliates into a list in Listmail, that would be way too easy, DUH...

Ok so I'll go do that, but then I will need the exact code to use in the signup-extra to email the affiliate a copy of the new signup email ( I just want it exactly like I get it but to go to them also ).

I'll also need some code to put in my web pages to display their info on them.  Right now I just use an include statement that grabs their .php file I create for them so their contact info is on the web page:

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include 'users/' . $_GET['ref_id'] . '.php';

Let me know, thanks.

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Customization, Integration / Post signup integration for affiliates ( kind of )

« on: August 21, 2007, 09:50:38 am »

I have set up a site for my team members to use for lead generation and am using Listmail and small php files as a kind of like small affiliate system.

It works easily and there are only a few handful of members, so I just did it this way, but here is what I need:

I keep the users info in a small php file named say "12345.php" and when the member promotes the site, they use "index.php?ref_id=12345" as their ID tracking.  Listmail stores this ID as an optional field when prospects fill out the form for additional details via email.

The problem I need solved is that I would like Listmail/PHP to take the ID#, inspect the file associated with it, extract the Team members email address and also forward them a copy of the Lead so they can follow up with them.

I'd guess this could be done in signup-extra, but being a PHP noob, I could use a push in the right direction on the easiest way to make this happen.  
Oh yea, this should only be done for 1 of my lists.

Dean or any other PHP person got any pointers?

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General Help & How-To / list mail not sending error, and wacky characters

« on: July 31, 2007, 09:27:11 am »

For your first problem, I'm not sure whats up with it...  I highly doubt it has anything to do with cron jobs running, etc.

As for formatting, I simply use MS Word, set my margin to 5 inches and use Lucida Console on 10 font size.

Oh and after typing my letter, I goto the end of each line and put a manual line break in there.

This always seems to give me a nice format without any trouble.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / Sendmail Fix -- Sending error. Check your mail settings.

« on: July 13, 2007, 04:57:47 pm »

Thats cool Dean, thanks and it's pretty hot here also.

I got Andrews Listmail running good, even though his server wasn't even  running sendmail... when I logged on to it I found it was running exim.

This may help some folks here as to how I got this working good:

1 - I made sure the exim tweaks suggested here on this forum were in place and they were already done.

2 - I set up the resume.php in a cron job so even if his mailings stalled they would auto resume - but this alone didn't fix the real problem he was having, it was something much bigger.

3 - I noticed while examining his exim logs that the stall was basically a DNS delay error ( which is the basis of this thread anyway, just as it relates to sendmail ).  But this error was being caused by the server itself being somewhat mis-configured ( or at least not optimized ).  It was searching several unknown ( I'm guessing they may be the server companies ) nameservers for an answer to each query.

Since the server itself was running Named ( A DNS Server ) I simply told it to look to its own self to get the DNS answer.   This seemed to completely fix the stalling.

I also set his Listmail to reconnect to the SMTP server every 50 emails.

Bottom line is that the mail server SHOULD be running its own local DNS server or there should be one right on the line next to it that is fast.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / Sendmail Fix -- Sending error. Check your mail settings.

« on: July 13, 2007, 11:39:13 am »

I'll tell you, I know enough to know that this whole thing is over my head and I need to get some help.

I may consider helping you out with this sendmail part if you wish, maybe for a small fee ( Dean I hope you don't mind me doing this here, if so erase this and let me know ).

I'm guessing if your system is pretty normal I could do it for say $50.  If you wish to discuss it further PM me on here and I will give you my email address and we can talk further, thanks.

EDIT - Just noticed PM was disabled so email me:  <edited>

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / Re: How to Modify SendMail?

« on: July 12, 2007, 11:55:46 am »

Only thing is, how/where do you modify the sendmail.mc file?

Normally it's in:  "/etc/mail"

But I use Redhat ( errr well now it's Fedora )... so I'm sure the location may vary with your server.  Simply do a "locate sendmail.mc" to find it.  You may need to do a "updatedb" first if needed.

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As for the "how" part, well that can be a bit more complicated and I highly suggest reading up on it, maybe the documentation at sendmail.org.

But basically you simply edit "sendmail.mc" in your favorite editor, adding the above where appropriate ( this is important ), then depending on your sendmail.mc/cf location, run "m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf" then restart sendmail, "service sendmail restart".

Hope that helps.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / DomainKeys, SPF, Deliverability

« on: June 24, 2007, 04:10:19 pm »

Boom - Even with SPF records and Reverse DNS and clean IP's your email can and will still be delivered to the junk folder for other reasons ( I'd guess mainly for content at this point even if it's just confirmation emails... )

The only other thing I can suggest is try to get "Safelisted" with yahoo honestly.  They don't use a feedback loop ( that I know of ) like MSN or AOL, but they will put your IP(s) on a test for up to 14 days to monitoring and then can "White or Safe list" you if they feel appropriate.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / DomainKeys, SPF, Deliverability

« on: June 20, 2007, 07:38:00 am »

How about using something like 'Habeas', have you ever thought of that, I know that Ralph Wilson over at WilsonWeb uses it, here's info on habeas:
http://www.habeas.com/What do you think?

I have seen a few different variations of services similar to this and I believe they could possibly help with delivery ( I don't think to yahoo, aol or msn ) but probably to other places.

The other ones I saw were fairly costly for the amount of email I send, I couldn't find pricing on this one, but it is worth at least looking into.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / DomainKeys, SPF, Deliverability

« on: June 19, 2007, 06:40:03 am »

Well my spf record is very simple:

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mydomain.com.        IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:68.79.xxx.0/24 -all"

It's simple because I own that 0/24 block of IP's.  I used a tool on the web to help me but I can't remember where.  And somewhere it said you should use "-all" instead of "~all" for some supposedly good reason.

Well for me verifying delivery to yahoo I simply use a yahoo account honestly.  I am safelisted with yahoo so supposedly my emails goto the inbox, but I like to check for sure on occasion.

But for what you got in your SPF record, I'd say it should be "ok".  You could add the mx for server.mydomain.com, it shouldn't hurt anything at all and might help depending on how your dns is setup I guess.  Of course if you have a static IP then just use it.  The only thing with doing that is if you change IP's you have to change the SPF record.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / DomainKeys, SPF, Deliverability

« on: June 18, 2007, 09:11:06 am »

Here's my 2 cents...  Forget Domain Keys, you DO NOT need them.

Simply setup SPF records for your domain and be happy.  It's VERY VERY VERY simple and it's what I use and get all ( well of course never all ) of my mail through to aol and yahoo...

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General Help & How-To / Re: Unable To Connect

« on: June 08, 2007, 01:49:19 pm »

Is this an error message that could be caused by a change the web host made?

More and likely, I'd ask them first.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / all mail bounced???

« on: June 08, 2007, 01:48:12 pm »

Thanks, I did that and found this:

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May 24 12:28:38 server courieresmtp: id=00021254.4655BC2A.0000526B,from=<lmbounc
e@mydomain.com>,addr=<xxxxx_xxx@yahoo.com>,size=7443,status: success


I think that line simply means courier accepted the message not delivered it to yahoo...   normally when actually delivered it shows the receiving server... ie.. smtp1.yahoo.com

Just a thought but I also know nothing or haven't even heard of couriersmtp...  but normally success does mean delivered where as "accepted" means well accepted...

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General Help & How-To / New Error On Sending..

« on: June 01, 2007, 09:49:16 am »

Before Dean replies you may want to try simply repairing the tables to see if that fixes it.

It would be easier if it works.  ( If you don't know how to repair them, do a search here as I remember seeing it in a few posts before ).