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Hello,

Customers have been asking questions about our file downloads. I tested it without problem, but just realized I was testing purchasing the product while logged in as the admin. WHen purshasing as an anonymous user, I see that ubercart does not send an email with a link to download the file. I checked through the existing threads here, but didn't see anything, and made sure that my permissions are set correctly.

I'm also having problem allowing users to download a file more than once. In the settings page, I left the option for file limit blank, and then tried it set to 1000. Still can't download any files more than once, and I would like to allow this to account for user error.

Thanks for any help,
Jugney

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Re: File downloads problem

Hmm.. yeah, that's not good. Can you say what version of UC you're running so we know if it could be related to issues that have already been resolved?

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Yes - it is version 1.6

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Any ideas?

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Re: Re: File downloads problem

Regarding the email address, are these email addresses the same as what the domain is for your site? In other words, they purchase a file from www.example.com - do the receipts get emailed to user@example.com as well? In your testing or otherwise?

I have found that with our server we sometimes have trouble sending to the same domain name, because the mail system needs to be configured (internal DNS and all that) in the server itself in order to properly send an email to its own domain.

If the users are not getting emails period, at different domains, then I assume it's something with your mail service or possibly other smtp settings. You're probably better off calling a tech support person to figure out exactly what the problem is. (Also, in my experience, the email receipts get caught in spam folders and missed by the recipients.)

Regarding the "can only download once" issue, is it related to this topic: http://www.ubercart.org/forum/support/8302/sql_error_file_download - have you tried downloading the file once, reloading the page, and then downloading again? We have a limit set for our users - 20 I believe - and we don't have this issue... we have a separate, similar issue, which involves the use of the "cache" database table - which stores uc_file download data - preventing users from downloading files. They receive the "you have attempted to download an incorrect URL too many times" error.

Let me know if any of this is sounding familiar.

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Thanks for the feedback. Our system sends email notifications about other events just fine, so it's not the email.

I checked this thread: http://www.ubercart.org/forum/support/5008/trouble_with_having_email_not...

And found it reflected my situation exactly. When I go into an order and update the status from "Completd" to "Pending" and back to "Completed" again, an email notification does go out. But it doesn't otherwise.

The thread above links a FAQ page with a fix, but I have tried the fix and the issue persists.

This is really a problem because we have people buying MP3's and are not very happy to wait for me to send them the file!

Thank you for your help,

Jugney

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Re: File downloads problem

Nevermind - it seems the system just needed some time to integrate the new settings. All is well now.

Thank you!