Please note that for Windows systems, it is your
reponsibility to make sure that you (your web server) have the clearance to send
e-mail with the SMTP server address you provide below. If authorization fails
for POD to send email through your SMTP server, POD has no convenient way to
inform you of this problem and will NOT report an "authorization failure"
message. For Unix users, your web server must have the standard "sendmail"
utility at /usr/sbin/sendmail. POD does not implement SMTP on Unix and use the
standard "sendmail" to send email reports. So you should make sure your web
server has it, if you want email reporting capabilities.
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Use hit counting on DB
If you
check this checkbox, it means one of the items in your DB entry items is a hit
counting item. Any time any entry of your DB is viewed by a user, the hit
counting item of that entry will be incremented by 1. This provides a
mechanism that you can use to track interest in the entry (product) in your
DB.
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The name of the item used for hit counting
is
Enter the name of the item that is the hit counting item
here.
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Every how many days should POD report
statistics to you?
If you enter 7 here, POD will send you hit
counting report approximately every 7 days (please note that if on the 7th
day, nobody visited your DB and POD is never launched, you will not get a
report. POD needs to be launched by visitors of your DB before it can report
anything to you). In addition, if POD fails to send email to you on time due
to SMTP server failure etc., POD will try again approximately half a day later
(again, the time line here is dependent whether there is user viewing your DB
at the time or not).
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Entries with top X hit counts should be
reported
If you enter 10 here, it means POD will send you a
report that contains the 10 entries in your DB with the highest hit
counts. The value of the first item of each entry will be displayed in the
report and be linked to the actual entry in case you want to review that
entry.
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Use e-mail to report serious DB
errors
Check this checkbox if you want POD to send email to you to
report serious DB errors that need your attention.
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Use e-mail to report entries with top hit
counts
Check this checkbox if you want POD to send email to you to
report the statistics and info using the settings you specified above from 1
to 4.
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Error time, type (program generated, do not
edit!)
This is used by POD. Never ever edit it by yourself! When
you're using remote administration through DBAdmin.html, you should not be
able to configure this option. I include documentation here in case you want
to edit the .ini configuration file manually.
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Last stat report time (program generated, do
not edit!) is
This is used by POD. Never edit it by yourself! When
you're using remote administration through DBAdmin.html, you should not be
able to configure this option. I include documentation here in case you want
to edit the .ini configuration file manually.
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The SMTP server for sending the mail is
(This is only needed for POD for Win32)
Enter the
domain name or IP address of your SMTP server here. SMTP server is needed for
POD to send email to you. Please note that it is your responsibility to make
sure this SMTP server will allow you send email through it. Some or all of the
following conditions must be true for that to happen: a. Your SMTP server does
not authentication. This is very rare. b. Your SMTP server uses domain name to
authenticate. If this is the case, make sure the domain name of the computer
POD resides on is authorized to send mail on that SMTP server. c. Your SMTP
server uses sender and/or receiver's email address to authenticate. In that
case, make sure your email addresses are authorized. There could be other
situations, contact the web master for your SMTP server for more
info.
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The e-mail address for sending the mail is
Enter any email address you want here. Your own email address is
a good choice.
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The e-mail address to receive the report
is
You probably want to enter your own email address here to
receive the report.
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The e-mail subject for the statistics report
is
This subject will be on the subject line on the mail sent to
you when stats are reported.
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The e-mail subject for the error report
is
This subject will be on the subject line on the mail sent to
you when errors are reported.