[Zope] Re: e-tailer & Mailhost

[Terry Kerr]

The e-tailer product has its own mailhost.  You dont need to create another
instance of a mailhost.  Just enter in the standard mailhost parameters in
Mailhost tab in the e-tailer management.



"J. Michael Mc Kay" wrote:

> I'm have some difficuties with e-tailer and setting up mailhost.  Where is
> the best location for mailhost.
> I have a directory structure like this:
>
> /a_la_cart/mailhost
> /a_la_cart/e-tailer
>
> Mailhost is in the a_la_cart directory with the e-tailer account.  In "order
> management", when I enter the address to recieve orders, submit it, the
> management area does not update but errs out instead.
>
> I am trying to set-up multiple e-tailers and have them all send mail from
> each e-tailer.
>
> thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry Kerr" <terry@adroit.net>
> To: "Graham Chiu" <anon_emouse@hotmail.com>; <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 9:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] E-Commerce solution using Python and Zope.
>
> > Graham Chiu wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > >these problems were fixed...it was only a problem initially caused by
> an
> > > >upgrade.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > A couple of other things.  On your front page, the non-hilighted 'demo'
> > > image is broken.  If you go to www.adroit.com there are more broken
> images.
> > > You may not be seeing them if they're in your cache.
> >
> > > Also, your shopping cart is still broken.
> > >
> > > Try this
> > >
> > > 1. select an image and place into cart.
> > > 2. go to check out
> > > 3. don't enter any details and click on buy
> > > 4. It then asks for credit card details - when it shouldn't really allow
> you
> > > this far
> > > 5. Then just keep backing out and the cart empties out :-(
> > >
> > > I downloaded the latest checkout but haven't had to a chance to see
> where
> > > the bug is.
> > >
> >
> > Ok...I found the bug that allows you to buy without entering any details
> I can
> > fix it.
> >
> > Yes, after you have entered the checkout, you cannot back out.  This was
> just
> > overlooked...it will be fixed.
> >
> > >
> > > Otherwise it looks quite good, though I would prefer a solution that
> uses a
> > > relational database to save data. ( My own Zope Ecommerce site has about
> > > 24,000 items which would be a bit painful to add items using a through
> the
> > > web interface. )
> > >
> >
> > We didn't use a relational database because it is way too is too complex
> for
> > the intended use of the product.  The idea behind e-tailer was to have an
> > ecommerce product which is extremely simple and quick to setup.   Setting
> up a
> > shop is as simple as adding an e-tailer from the manage screen of a
> folder.  It
> > takes less that 5 minutes to have the shop fully setup and ready to go and
> > accepting secure credit information.  I don't know of any other ecommerce
> > products that are that easy to setup.   Besides, there are no easy ways to
> > manipulate an SQL backend like we do with the e-tailer catalog.  Things
> like
> > adding and remove product properties, and giving properties to categories
> that
> > all the products within that category will aquire, and having products and
> > categories aquiring template styles, etc.  This is all very difficult if
> not
> > impossible to acheive with a flat relational database.
> >
> > We never intended for e-tailer to hold 24000 items!  Although i dont see
> any
> > problem with this.  We have done some tests with over 50000 cataloged
> items in
> > a zodb and searching was fine.  I agree that adding 24000 items through a
> web
> > interface would be painful ;-)  We need to create a tool that can upload
> items
> > from other storages so that this kind of process can be speed up.
> >
> > Having said all that, we are looking at possibly integrating a backend
> > relational database.
> >
> > Any more feedback is greatly appreciated! ;-)
> >
> > terry
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ---
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Terry Kerr (terry@adroit.net)
Adroit Internet Solutions Pty Ltd (www.adroit.net)
Phone:   +613 9563 4461
Fax:     +613 9563 3856
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