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In a bid to help solve a weird 404 error that Kevin has been experiencing with the self test I offered him a pre-release copy of my upcoming ‘unified’ Magento email extension. It will support both SMTP and Google Apps/Gmail along with a few new features.

Anyway, if anyone is keen to try the extension please contact me or flick me an email or post a comment and let me know, I’ll send through the files, I’d rather not post it for public availability here yet, because it’s not as stable as I’d like. But expect it very soon!
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Just a quick note to say I have added some new functionality to the Gmail or Google Apps email sending extension I wrote for Magento.

Basically several people asked for reply-to functionality, that would use the Magento store addresses that were being used on the outbound email. The change was very minor, I guess I just didn’t see it as being important at the time. Anyway, it’s a configurable option now, so feel free to either use it or not. You can get the extension from Magento Connect.

The change for those interested was very small, just a simple reply-to header as shown below:

// If we are using store emails as reply-to's set the header
if (Mage::helper('googleappsemail')->isReplyToStoreEmail()) {
      $mail->addHeader('Reply-To', $this->getSenderEmail());
}

Also here are some screenshots showing the new configuration option and also how emails sent using the option or not using it.

The Gmail and Google Apps email configuration for Magento is very easy.

You’ll notice no real changes here, just one new Yes/No option that if enabled will use the reply-to functionality shown below. Basically the reply-to email will be the one Magento is configured to use from the below Store email addresses screen.

This shows an example of some store email addresses configured in Magento

These are the email addresses you will see in the reply-to field as shown in the examples below.

The default behavior is to send with no reply-to, as it seems the trend is toward automated emails that do not receive responses.

This image shows the default non-reply behavior, the from email is used as the to email for any replies.

This shows the new feature, a reply-to field that email clients will use to populate the reply to field.

This screenshot shows the use of the reply-to where Gmail will send the reply to the given email rather than back to the original sender address.

If you have any questions, feedback etc I’m always keen to hear it so please comment or contact me directly.