changing email address of notification email

[joshau]

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Hi there, whenever people sign my guestbook I get emailed a notification telling me of the new post. However I was wondering if I could change the email address it comes from. Currently it shows the email coming from User Josh2008 with email josh2008@buzz1.whbdns.com which looks like its getting the information from my server and my cpanel username. I want to put in a normal email address so that my spam filters dont keep sending it to junk mail. It would be much appreciated if you could tell me how to change the email it sends from.

[Klemen]

Try opening gbook.php in Notepad and change

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mail("$settings[admin_email]",$lang['t41'],$message);

to

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mail("$settings[admin_email]",$lang['t41'],$message,"From:you@yourmail.com\nReply-to:you@yourmail.com\nReturn-path:you@yourmail.com");

[joshau]

Thank you very much. You sir are a genius.

[cyberdyne]

Can I add to this rather than starting a new thread please.

In v1.7 as opposed to v1.6 above, can I change the address the email notifications are sent from?

Currently, they are sent from the server address (mylogin@myhostname.myservername.net) which doesn't look very attractive and also exposes my control panel login name.

Thank you.

[Klemen]

Have you tried the hack for v1.6? Should work just fine.

[cyberdyne]

Have you tried the hack for v1.6? Should work just fine.

Is there a hack other than the above?
I looked for the above code in v1.7 of gbook.php but it was not there.

Many thanks

[Henrie]

Hello cyberdyne,

I think you did not search well enough.

In gbook.php of version GBook 1.7

For the approval e-mail change line 953

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mail($settings['admin_email'],$lang['t41'],$message,"Content-type: text/plain; charset=".$lang['enc']);

For the notification e-mail change line 989

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mail($settings['admin_email'],$lang['t41'],$message,"Content-type: text/plain; charset=".$lang['enc']);

Greetings,
Henrie

[cyberdyne]

Hello cyberdyne,

I think you did not search well enough.

Try opening gbook.php in Notepad and change

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mail("   .......

The code you posted is slightly different from the code above Henrie.

Unfortunately, I searched for the section above.

Confirmed, works perfectly!

Many thanks for your help Henrie.

[Henrie]

The code you posted is slightly different from the code above Henrie.

You are right about that. But when i first do not find the whole line, i always do a second search for part of the line because the code might have changed in new versions. In this case i searched for t41

Greetings,
Henrie

[itsmir]

Hi there,

I've updated lines 953 & 989 in gbook.phpo as described above but am no longer receiving approval/notification emails - I'm sure I've done something daft - can you please check my code for stupid mistakes;-

Line 953

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mail($settings['admin_email'],$lang['t41'],$message,"Content-type: text/plain; charset=".$lang['enc'],"From:fanpage@whitenightevents.nl\nReply-to:fanpage@whitenightevents.nl\nReturn-path:fanpage@whitenightevents.nl");

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mail($settings['admin_email'],$lang['t41'],$message,"Content-type: text/plain; charset=".$lang['enc'],"From:fanpage@whitenightevents.nl\nReply-to:fanpage@whitenightevents.nl\nReturn-path:fanpage@whitenightevents.nl");

Many Thanks in advance
Miriam

[Klemen]

Try replacing

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['enc'],

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['enc']."\n".

If that doesn't work it's possible your server doesn't allow modifying "From" email headers.

[itsmir]

That did the trick - many thanks!