Return address on user registration emails is wrong

  • BinkyM

    (@binkym)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, folks:

    People have been registering to post comments to my new blog (yay!), but I’ve got an appalling problem: the emails are coming from myusername@box160.myhost.com, so they’re landing in their junk/spam/bulk folders. On my admin page, the correct email address is there, and just to be positive, I checked my MySQL datavase, and the correct email address is there, too. I phoned my host, thinking they’d jiggle something in my brain, either something I forgot to do, or else they’d tell me they hear this question all the time, and the answer is … but no such luck. They told me to ask WordPress. So here I am.

    Why aren’t the user registration emails going out from the correct email address (admin@myblogdomain.com)? What can I do to solve this? Since the domain is an add-on domain, people are seeing my user name … which is one I don’t want them to see. It’s unprofessional, and I’m dying over here.

    Thanks very much for any tips.

    Binky

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  • Thread Starter BinkyM

    (@binkym)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve solved the problem of the “From” field in the header being wrong, though WHY the problem exists, I have no idea. The file class-phpmailer.php in wp-includes had this on line 74:

    var $Sender = “”;

    Putting the email address in there solved his problem. The install went without a hitch, but I notice the file modification date on that file indicates that that file wasn’t touched during the install (none of the files in that directory was, for that matter), so I’m a little suspicious of what else might not be right. Other users haven’t experienced this problem? (I guess not, otherwise a lot of people would have jumped on this question with solutions!)

    So I’m off to go try to put some *content* into the confirmation messages so they’ll be less apt to land in spam folders!

    Binky

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