How to translate emails - Prestashop 1.6.x.x?

1. Translate email templates through admin panel

go to admin panel -> Localization -> Translations -> Modify translations:

1) Select «Type of translation» = «Email translations»

2)

Select «Select your theme» = «Core (no theme selected)» (folder with email templates located here /modules/{MODULE_FOLDER_NAME}/mails/

OR

Select «Select your theme» = «Your prestashop theme» (folder with email templates located here /themes/{YOUR_CURRENT_THEME_PATH}/modules/{MODULE_FOLDER_NAME}/mails/

3) Select «Select your language»

4) Click «Modify» button

Click on your module in the section «MODULE EMAILS»:

Here you can:

- View HTML version
- Edit HTML version
- View/Edit TXT version

2. Translate email templates through FTP

1) Connect to your FTP server via your FTP client as "FileZilla" for example.

2) Go to the module's "mails" folder:

- first of all please check if email templates is not override in folder with your prestashop theme: /themes/{YOUR_CURRENT_THEME_PATH}/modules/{MODULE_FOLDER_NAME}/mails/

- if folder with module in your prestashop theme folder not exists, then email templates locate here: /modules/{MODULE_FOLDER_NAME}/mails/

3) By default, you should see the few folders corresponding to the languages supported by default:

/en/ (for the English language)
/fr/ (for the French language)
/de/ (for the German language)
/es/ (for the Spanish language)
/it/ (for the Italian language)

4) If you want EDIT emails for existing language:

For example using French language. Open the "fr" folder and copy the files contained in it, locally on your computer.
Open the files (e-mail templates) and translate them into French. Save them locally on your computer.
Once all the translations are done, copy and paste these translated files into the "fr" folder, located in the "mails" folder of the module.

5) If you want ADD new emails:

For example you want add Dutch language.
Create, in this place (the "mails" folder of the module), a folder "nl" (ISO code of the Dutch language).
Open the "nl" folder and copy the files contained in it, locally on your computer.
Open the files (e-mail templates) and translate them into Dutch. Save them locally on your computer.
Once all the translations are done, copy and paste these translated files into the "nl" folder, located in the "mails" folder of the module.