100% Stability. Lets fix the final few bugs. The Final Bug Stomping Thread+

[steheap]

Another piece of intelligence.

I just got the email from my own site showing that Christine had registered on my site - again, created 42 minutes ago. So it isn't just the emails to the new subscriber that are occasionally being delayed - the system seems to randomly delay all the emails due for sending. So this could explain the issues seen before about no email with the download link that I remember being raised.

Steve

Update: and the email announcing the registration from ajt just arrived - 42 minutes late.

[sc]

Update con't.

Wife's registration came through took about 40 minutes.

[travelwitness]

Incidentally, TravelWitness - how did you modify the email to just show the one login link? Directly modify one of the Symbio files?

Steve

I just arranged the 'Above' menu from within wordpress, under 'Appearance' if i remember correctly.

[steheap]

Interesting - there seems to be a burst of emails at around the 40 - 45 minute point. I just received another one. I am still missing some passwords, so perhaps there is going to be a later time activity as well.

I wonder if there are any timers that clear out old email requests at the 40 minute point?

Steve

[sc]

Ok
I went into our Cox acct and changed the SpamBlocker settings on my wife's email
From:
Delete incoming junk email automatically. This setting will remove junk email before it reaches your inbox.

To:
Tag junk email with -- Spam -- in the subject line and deliver to your inbox.

I deleted her acct on my web site and re-registered her.
She got the email and password within seconds.

Steve

edit: it wasn't marked as spam, either

[steheap]

Latest - there were a set of emails that all arrived after 45 minutes and now one has shown up after 1 hour:

Here are my results so far:

Cathy - OK, but email in Spam
Image Borealis - OK - email in inbox
Travel witness - NOT OK - no email *** Received email just now - but the time stamp showed it was generated 45 minutes ago.
Franky - NOT OK - no email *** Received email just now - time stamp shows 44 minutes ago.
Tinny (JustHost) - NOT OK - no email *** Received email - time stamp shows 60 minutes
Leo's site - OK - email in inbox
Cascoly Images - OK - email in inbox
SoftLight - NOT OK - no email

Steve

[Kerioak~Christine]

I think I have all of mine now - some are not prettily formatted, I think when I disabled the symbiostock email plugin.  Steve, as you have the most comprehensive list do you want to edit it to add hosts as well to see if there is a pattern?  Mine is Justhost

The last one I did as site owner I got message at 16.08, as potential client it arrived at 17.19 . 

Off topic but I visited my cPanel for the first time in a few weeks and they seem to think I am using rather a lot of space !

[Leo Blanchette]

Fixed by friday

[steheap]

Here is the final list:


Cathy - OK, but email in Spam
Image Borealis - OK - email in inbox
Travel witness - NOT OK - no email *** Received email just now - but the time stamp showed it was generated 45 minutes ago.
Franky - NOT OK - no email *** Received email just now - time stamp shows 44 minutes ago.
Tinny (JustHost) - NOT OK - no email *** Received email - time stamp shows 60 minutes
Leo's site - OK - email in inbox
Cascoly Images - OK - email in inbox
SoftLight - NOT OK - no email *** received after 2 hours

Steve

[Leo Blanchette]

Forget email. Maybe I can get cart working without registration.

[sc]

Here is the final list:


Cathy - OK, but email in Spam
Image Borealis - OK - email in inbox
Travel witness - NOT OK - no email *** Received email just now - but the time stamp showed it was generated 45 minutes ago.
Franky - NOT OK - no email *** Received email just now - time stamp shows 44 minutes ago.
Tinny (JustHost) - NOT OK - no email *** Received email - time stamp shows 60 minutes
Leo's site - OK - email in inbox
Cascoly Images - OK - email in inbox
SoftLight - NOT OK - no email *** received after 2 hours

Steve

Steve
Just got my registration email from your site - took over an hour.

SC

[plrang]

Just tried my site &

http://travelwitness.net - over 10 minutes
http://ajotte.com
http://www.picturemojo.co.nz
http://stockimages.kerioak.com
http://stock.lkpublishinganddesign.com/

all emails right away, looks it's hosting or inbox spam related

[cathyslife]

Still never received email from travelwitness. Lost in the ether.

[travelwitness]

Forget email. Maybe I can get cart working without registration.

Maybe send the email as a receipt after purchasing, would be very useful to build a client list.
But faster check out is good :-)

[Leo Blanchette]

Hi guys...finally at a computer. Have to take day off today.

I'm going to make a cookie system responsible for all of this, make email woes a thing of the past. Should be done by friday if everything goes well - though I may delay the release to get some other bugs worked out and a few analytics features added.

[ajt]

After 3 hours I got email from Franky's site. It was attached to spam report, stating that it:

- has link to third party domain (symbiostock.com)
- has url in subject
- contains html code
- contains external image

and some other things. These all qualify message as spam with probability over 50%. I had spam filter on my server set to 50%, so it was trapped. Now I've set it to 100%

And cookie-cart would be great

[Leo Blanchette]

That is SO stupid. Basically you can send an email as long as it looks lame, does not point the user anywhere (like to files) and as far as I know is not very long. Oh, and no images.

[travelwitness]

Hi guys...finally at a computer. Have to take day off today.

I'm going to make a cookie system responsible for all of this, make email woes a thing of the past. Should be done by friday if everything goes well - though I may delay the release to get some other bugs worked out and a few analytics features added.

Sorry to add to your list Leo, but is it possible to capture an email just before the checkout / download. Maybe generate a report inside of Wordpress?

Two reasons - one as they may need some kind or receipt of purchase - secondly for marketing so we can build a client base.

[Kerioak~Christine]

I wonder if the purchase emails are similar to the registration mails in the time they take?

[klsbear]

That is SO stupid. Basically you can send an email as long as it looks lame, does not point the user anywhere (like to files) and as far as I know is not very long. Oh, and no images.

Leo,  is there anything different in the Symbio link and pic that would trap it in the spam filters?  When I delete those but leave my image link and text links it went through ok in my testing.  Could you try eliminating your links from the registration letter and download letter for a few days so we could test without it to see the impact. At least we could still function until it is fixed if that turns out to be the cause across the board. That was definitely what caused the problem for me.

[shotupdave]

I wonder if the purchase emails are similar to the registration mails in the time they take?

I did a test purchase and it was a instant email

[cidepix]

Forget email. Maybe I can get cart working without registration.

Leo I think (if possible) it is better to let customers create their own passwords during registration, instead of getting cart working without registration..

But you know which one is easier..

[steheap]

OK, not a bug, but if Leo is going to do one last major release, would it be possible to display the results of a search against a keyword on my site in the opposite order? At present it displays the most recent images first. I've been going through my files adding the ones that I think are most likely to sell first and as I have moved deeper into my portfolio, I'm now adding good, but perhaps not as great, images. If you search on a keyword, you see my less good images on the first page as a result.

Steve

[cascoly]

here's another example of bad desc -- this time it's created the desc from THREE different pieces of exif info:
=========================
Panorama - Basalt cliffs and talus from ancient lava flow,      Crooked River Canyon,   Central Oregon

Panorama - Basalt cliffs and talus from ancient lava flow,      Crooked River Canyon,   Central Oregon


SONY DSC   
========================

the 'sony dsc' is put there by the camera (it's originally also in the iptc but get's replaced when I add meta data)

when I processed, then edited this, I got error msg:

Error: huge EXIF data count - EXIF is probably Corrupted

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home1/cascolyi/public_html/pix/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/PHP_JPEG_Metadata_Toolkit/EXIF.php:1020) in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/pix/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876

[THP Creative]

Hi guys...finally at a computer. Have to take day off today.

I'm going to make a cookie system responsible for all of this, make email woes a thing of the past. Should be done by friday if everything goes well - though I may delay the release to get some other bugs worked out and a few analytics features added.

hey leo this sounds great, instant purchases instead of forced signups, i love it!

Was just thinking, some browsers etc are clamping down on cookies these days aren't they? Could it be made so that if a users settings don't allow cookies, symbio recognises this, tells the user what is happening and then tells them that due to their settings they need to sign up (as in, keep the current email system as a backup - not remove it entirely) to complete checkout?

I could be way off, just a thought