Magento extension Human Element Dev Tools - Email Redirect by GregC
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Email Redirect allows a developer to redirect all email from a Magento store to a specific address.
Compatible with Magento 1.x
Human Element Dev Tools - Email Redirect
When maintaining a Magento store, developers often need to copy the database from the live site to a development server. Once the live data is installed in the dev environment, you need to be absolutely certain that customer emails are not accidentally sent from the development environment. This can cause a lot of confusion for clients and customers.
Using Magento's configuration settings you can block all email from being sent by disabling all email. This method is an all or nothing way to solve the problem. However it's not always practical, because you may want to send mail to test the mail templates or some other e-mail related functionality.
So this is where the new Human Element Dev Tools module Route Customer E-mail comes into play.
With this module, you can tell Magento which domain names it's OK to send e-mail to (i.e. the domains of your company and your client) and where to route all other customer e-mails (i.e. a testing email address).
The interface is simple system configuration panel which should appear near the Advanced settings section at the bottom of the configurations list.
To set up the redirects, just follow these simple steps -
- Open up the Route Customer Email panel and set Enable email redirects to Yes
- In the Allowed Domain Names field you specify the domain names Magento is allowed to send e-mails. This can be a single domain or a comma separated list.
- In the