newsletter rogue email sent on data import
I am troubleshooting a data migration from os commerce to Magento. I have yet to confirm this but it appears that when importing customer records into magento with the newsletter field set to yes that the magento system emailed all those customers an email that only said “Newsletter Subscription Success”
Is there a cron that runs on that or how does that happen. I’m trying to track down the process that did this so it doesn’t happen again.
The emai was sent from
Just thought I’d put it out there for others to see if they have the same issue or not.
1mjohnsonperl posted Mon, June 30, 2008
Yeah, I noticed this too, and posted a thread on the module forum:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/6919/
“Space” replied with a couple tips on how to possibly disable it form sending emails, but nobody has confirmed that his hack is successful at stopping the emails yet.
I tried his suggestions and ran an import but was still noticing a lot of postfix SMTP processes spinning up when I started an import, so I’m not sure if it actually fixed it or not. What I decided to do was to copy everything to my local system, disconnect the network, run the import, then make sure all postfix processes are dead and nothing is left in the queue, then rejoin the network and migrate my customer list to the live database. I really don’t want to be sending out 10,000 or so seemingly SPAM emails to customers that I want to keep happy.
It sends each email as it goes through the list of customers it’s importing, so it’s not a cron job or anything, it’s as each record is imported, it creates the customer object and stores it in the database… and somehow the creating of the customer object triggers the newseltter email.
2DDMAN posted Tue, July 1, 2008
mjohnson,
Thanks for the comment. We ended up adding a few characters in the emails on import by doing . So we added 123 before the @ sign and abc after the @ sign. In this way ensuring that no emails actually get sent to our real customers. I’m not sure if this was the best method as it probably tried sending out emails to all these domains and they all bounced. Once the import was complete we simply remove 123 and abc before and after the @ symbol.