The email tab allows you to configure the email templates sent to your users for the notifications you configured under Ad/Listing settings.
General Email Settings:
- Use sender email for reply messages: By default, AWPCP will use the admin email of your WordPress blog to use for emails sent out. If you want your emails from AWPCP to appear from someone else, check this option (with the caveat mentioned in the image above–Mail servers today are very picky about spam and sending email from joe@hotmail.com from a site called foo.com will trigger spam filters in most cases.) Use with caution
- FROM email address for outgoing mails: If you check the prior option, this is the email that will be used instead.
Ad Posted Message: If you turned on the user’s notification to receive an email when their ad was posted in Ad/Listing settings, this is the email template used for the message.
- Subject for Ad Posted By: The subject line of the email sent when a user is sent the “Ad Posted” notification.
- Body for Ad Posted By: The body of the email sent when a user is sent the “Ad Posted” notification.
Reply to Ad Message: AWPCP uses a Craigslist-like notification system. The poster’s email is never displayed to the end user. Only when the person browsing the ad clicks on the Contact link from the Show Ad page can they contact they poster, and only through a form they submit on your site. The ad poster will then receive this email template.
- Subject for Reply to Ad: The subject line of the email sent when someone uses the Contact link from the Show Ad page.
- Body for Reply to Ad: The body of the email sent when someone uses the Contact link from the Show Ad page.
Request Ad Message: This section has to do with requesting an ad access key. Ad access keys are used to edit ads when you have Ad Managememt panel turned off under General settings.
- Subject for Request Ad Access Key: The subject line of the email sent when someone uses the Edit Ad link from the Show Ad page. The email will ONLY be sent to the original poster of the ad.
- Body for Request Ad Access Key: The body of the email sent when someone uses the Edit Ad link from the Show Ad page.
Incomplete Payment Message: If you have a paid classifieds board and there is a problem during the payment phase of placing an ad, this is the email template used to notify the user of that problem.
- Subject for Incomplete Payment email: The subject line of the email sent when someone has a payment problem during the Place Ad workflow.
- Body for Incomplete Payment email: The body of the email sent when someone has a payment problem during the Place Ad workflow.
Ad Expired Message: If you turned on the user’s notification to receive an email when their ad expired in Ad/Listing settings, this is the email template used for the message.
- Subject for Ad Expired email: The subject line of the email sent when a user is sent the “Expired Ad” notification.
- Body for Ad Expired email: The body of the email sent when a user is sent the “Expired Ad” notification.
Renew Ad Message: If you turned on the user’s notification to receive an email when their ad is about to expire (within the expiry threshold) in Ad/Listing settings, this is the email template used for the message.
- Subject for Renew Ad email: The subject line of the email sent when a user is sent the “Renew Ad” notification.
- Body for Renew Ad email: The body of the email sent when a user is sent the “Renew Ad” notification.
Advanced Email Configuration: These settings should only be used when your WordPress site doesn’t seem to want to send email via the standard WP mail functions. This allows you to specify SMTP settings for an email server. If you use these settings, AWPCP will use them instead of the standard WP mail functions. Use with care.
- Enable external SMTP server: Turn this on to use the SMTP settings instead of your default WP mail functions.
- SMTP host: The server or IP address of your SMTP server
- SMTP port: The SMTP port of the server. Defaults to 25.
- SMTP username: The login used to send mail
- SMTP password: The password of the login name above.
