MODIFICATION: Receive a copy of the email sent from visitors to listing owners.

[cwp +]

Ever wanted to monitor messages that are sent from the contact form through the listing pages? I do this myself to monitor spam send to listing owners. I also use these emails to count how many messages were sent from website visitors each month. This is how I monitor conversions.

You need the developer edition to do this modification.

Open contact.php. Its located yourdomain.com/contact.php

Find this:

$msg=$Mailer->sendMail($to, $content, $vars);

Add this right after it:

//now make a copy for the admin
$to="youremail@emailaddress.com";
$content="contactownercopy.tpl";
$msg=$Mailer->sendMail($to, $content, $vars);

Replacing your email with youremail@emailaddress.com

Notice that the email you receive will be the template "contactownercopy.tpl". You will need to upload this template to your email template folder.

You can use the template I made shown below. It is a slightly modified copy of contactowner.tpl

{assign var='subject' value='New message sent from your website'}

{include file="emails/html/mail_header.tpl"}

<h2>New Message</h2>

Hi Admin,

<p>The following message has been sent to the listing owner from a visitor on your website.</p>
<div class="hr"><hr /></div>

<strong>Name:</strong> {$name}<br />

<strong>Email:</strong> {$fromemail}<br />

<strong>Message:</strong><br />

{$comments}<br /><br />

<strong>Listing URL: </strong><a href="{$listing_url}">{$listing_url}</a>

<div class="hr"><hr /></div>
<br />

{include file="emails/html/mail_footer.tpl"}

[archavir +]

I've tried this on my site, but doesn't seem to forward the copy. Any other settings I have to touch-up on back-end maybe?

[cwp +]

Did you upload the new template? Without having a template you won't receive anything.

[paulsra +]

hi,
i need to implement this operation in 3.1 but i dont have "$msg=$Mailer->sendMail($to, $content, $vars);"
or part thereof in my contact.php.

can this be done in ver 3.1 dev?

thanks

[martso +]

Hi,
I was wondering is there any way to get the IP of the sender and then block the IP somehow if the messages were spam or scam?
Thanks

[cwp +]

Originally Posted by paulsra

hi,
i need to implement this operation in 3.1 but i dont have "$msg=$Mailer->sendMail($to, $content, $vars);"
or part thereof in my contact.php.

can this be done in ver 3.1 dev?

thanks

In version 3 its all different code. Theres a way to do this in version 3.. Please thank Mike-N-Tosh for this:

I believe this is as simple as this. Open your "contact.php" file and around line 121 you should see this:

$mail = new Mailer();
$mail->AddAddress($to);
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName = $name;
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Body = $htmlContent;
$mail->AltBody = $textContent;

Just add a line to this like this:

$mail->AddBCC("email@yourdomain");

Obviously, changing the email address to the email address that you want it sent to. This won't send a different email to you, but a copy of the original email to you BCC so no one else see's it's being sent to you or the email address.

I do this same thing, but for the user registration (userjoin.php) so that we know when a new user signs up.

[cwp +]

Originally Posted by martso

Hi,
I was wondering is there any way to get the IP of the sender and then block the IP somehow if the messages were spam or scam?
Thanks

Not sure, you'll have to hire someone to custom code this in for you.

[paulsra +]

Originally Posted by cwp

In version 3 its all different code. Theres a way to do this in version 3.. Please thank Mike-N-Tosh for this:

I believe this is as simple as this. Open your "contact.php" file and around line 121 you should see this:

$mail = new Mailer();
$mail->AddAddress($to);
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName = $name;
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Body = $htmlContent;
$mail->AltBody = $textContent;

Just add a line to this like this:

$mail->AddBCC("email@yourdomain");

Obviously, changing the email address to the email address that you want it sent to. This won't send a different email to you, but a copy of the original email to you BCC so no one else see's it's being sent to you or the email address.

I do this same thing, but for the user registration (userjoin.php) so that we know when a new user signs up.

thats perfect, thanks mike-n-tosh, and CWP.

userjoin sounds like a good ider as well, do you get both emails when someone joins up?
i tried it and it woks great!

thanks

[goin4savvy +]

Hi,
I followed all of the instructions and this is the error that I got in my email box.

Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "emails/html/modifylisting.tpl" in /var/www/vhosts/naturalhorseforsale.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

Anything I can do? I did create and upload the template as stated.

Thanks,
Jill B

[cwp +]

I'll look into this once I'm able to view my website (dns). It's possible this won't work with the newest version.