Editing New Signups (section)

= The Welcome Emails =

[[VPS_Management#jailmake|jailmake]] and [[VPS_Management#jailmake|vm]], as one of its arguments, asks for an email address.  This email address is used to send a welcome email to the new user.  However, the welcome email is not inside the jailmake/vemake script, and they are not on the jails themselves either.  Here are all the various welcome emails we have:

<pre>/usr/local/www/jc_pub/data/welcome-freebsdp (dynamic freebsd welcome email, 7.x 8.x)
/usr/local/www/jc_pub/data/welcome-linux (dynamic linux welcome email)
/usr/local/www/jc_pub/data/welcome-debian (dynamic debian/ubuntu welcome email)
/usr/local/www/jc_pub/data/welcome-fedora (dynamic fedora/centos welcome email)
/usr/local/www/jc_pub/data/welcome-freebsd (original, generic freebsd welcome email)
/usr/local/www/jc_pub/data/welcome-freebsd6 (for freebsd6)
/usr/local/www/jc_pub/data/welcome-freebsd7z (for freebsd7 with zfs DEPRECATED)</pre>

on the main johncompanies server.

When the jailmake script is run, it issues the `fetch` (or wget) command to retrieve it, i.e.
http://www.johncompanies.com/colocation/data/welcome-freebsdp

and saves it as a temp file, mails it off.

Welcome emails not noted as dynamic above, are emailed with the IP appended at the top to the email address specified. The password to these accounts was/is generic- not very good. Welcome emails noted as dynamic are parsed by the make script to include the IP and a generated, random root password. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: when creating an older-OS ve on a virt- this almost never happens (i.e. it’s created using the old-style vemakexxxx command), you must use the support address as the email address as the make script will be pulling down the dynamic welcome email when it expects to see the old, generic format and it won’t look good. When you receive the welcome email in support, format properly and resend to customer.

This means three things:

a) In order for jailmake to work, the johncompanies web server needs to be up and running, and that file needs to exist at that URL

b) If you want to edit the welcome email, you only need to edit it on the web server, in one place

c) If a customer for some reason does not receive the welcome email, then you need to go Mgmt -> Reference -> (file), copy and paste it into an email to them. For the old-generic emails, make sure to add this line to the very top:

IP: (their IP)

If the welcome email does not exist, jailmake will still work, in the sense that it will create the system, but no welcome email will be sent.