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raider First Post Posted on: 02-27-10 08:00 AM
Clarify PayPal emails
Hi Ahmed,

\ I use my premier Paypal account for purchases and sales on other sites. I dont need to get the confirmations from these transactions, so its not a problem setting my primary email on PayPal to that of my domain and only letting the script check that email address.

However what will the script do when it checks the email account and has payments made and received from Paypal not connected to the auction site ? Will it just ignore these?

Thanks.

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mewsoft Reply #: 1 Posted on: 02-27-10 09:15 AM
Re: Clarify PayPal emails
Try!.

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raider Reply #: 2 Posted on: 02-27-10 04:04 PM
Re: Clarify PayPal emails

Hi Ahmed,
I have now tried the payment system - but have been unable to get it to work frown

I have set the Process payments email address to my Primary PayPal email address after creating it and it is confirmed.

  • The Paypal primary Address is set in admin and is the account on my domain.
  • Used the User name and Password for the above account on my domain
  • Set the Account hostname to mail.ebasyi.com (as indicated by hostgator)
  • I have tried All 3 authority modes. 

For the last hour I have repeatedly clicked check paypal payment - then waited - then changed authority mode and tried again- but it reports no payment received from the user account that made the payment.

I have just logged in with the user name and password to check via webmail and the PayPal notification of payment email is there and unread.

I see from the merchant code that it checks for the message id being 123456789.1235/@paypal .com which the message has in the header and the email address the payment was made from and to is correct so I dont know whats wrong.

Any suggestions as to what may be wrong? 


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Http://www.eBaSyi.com
mewsoft Reply #: 3 Posted on: 02-28-10 12:48 AM
Re: Clarify PayPal emails
If you check the email from the web or using any email cleint, the program will not be able to get the payment email. Someday we will use Paypal IPN easier.

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raider Reply #: 4 Posted on: 02-28-10 04:59 AM
Re: Clarify PayPal emails

Hi Ahmed, thanks for your reply. I only checked the email account after an hour of trying to get the script to find the payment changing the settings etc and clicking check paypal payment option. Is there someway or something I could temporarily add to the merchant.pm or other script to get it to print out to the screen what

it is has checked so at least I know whether it is actually getting to access the email account ? Maybe print to screen the Array it uses to temporarily store the email headers in or something similar?


Developing a UK Auction Site :

Http://www.eBaSyi.com
raider Reply #: 5 Posted on: 02-28-10 09:53 AM
Re: Clarify PayPal emails

Hi Ahmed,

An update I got the payments to work. The problem I was having appears to be with the

the line in merchant.pm that checks the To: before trying to find the amount. By #out the If

statement it finds the payment, credits the account and deletes the email. This maybe as my

paypal account is a Premier account and the To field starts with the business name as below

To: Businessname   <email address>

Not sure if this will affect others and needs looked at or whether this will cause a problem with

me changing it - but it does work at the moment.

One more thing does the script check payments by paypal run with the cronjob or will the users always have to use the check_PayPal_payments?


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Http://www.eBaSyi.com