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Hello, I encountered a bug in 2.6.13 and I serached the forum for mail, got 7 pages and read though it all, but I do not think my problem was visible there!

Note, I run my forum on virtual host.

In the Admin Panel Global settings, in the field:
Notify From: I have an email adress that looks like this:
lastname(dot)name(at)email(dot)com

When the forum sends a mail to a user it will appear like this to them:

Quote:

From: lastname(at)physical(dot)host(dot)com

To view unread replies go to http://www.virtualhost.org/etcetc

If you do not wish to receive further notifications about replies in this topic, please go here: http://www.virtualhost.org/etcetcetc

If I press "Reply" to that mail, I will see the following adresses in the "TO: field":
lastname(at)physical(dot)host(dot)com, name(at)email(dot)com

So, it appears that since the format of my mail is lastname(dot)name(at)email(dot)com there is a bug that prevents the forum to understand that email format (with a . before the @)

Any pointers to the file where I can fix this problem?

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31849 is a reply to message #31834]

Sat, 20 May 2006 15:45

Ilia

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Are you using SMTP mail wrapper in the forum or regular e-mail settings?

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31851 is a reply to message #31834]

Sat, 20 May 2006 18:41

Ernesto

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Regular e-mail settings.

I am gussing it does not understand the blah(dot)blah(at)blah(dot)com format and its the first . that mucks things up

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31869 is a reply to message #31851]

Sun, 21 May 2006 11:56

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If you are using the regular settings, the the fault is not with FUDforum, it simply passed the provided value to the PHP's mail() via the header parameter as part of the Reply-To mail header.

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31873 is a reply to message #31834]

Sun, 21 May 2006 18:07

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Oh, so if I understand correctly, when FUDforum passes the email adress lastname(dot)firstname(at)mail(dot)com with the phpmail() function an error occurs when phpmail() writes the information to the header and splits it up into two parts due to the "out of standard" format of the user (lastname.firstname) ?

So I can assume that i cannot use the PHPmail function with an email adress such as this?

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31883 is a reply to message #31873]

Mon, 22 May 2006 10:07

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not phpmail() but PHP's mail() function, which is a native PHP function for sending out e-mail. That function is perfectly happy with any valid e-mail address including lastname(dot)firstname(at)mail(dot)com, at least on all the systems I've tested it on.

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31898 is a reply to message #31834]

Mon, 22 May 2006 18:21

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So what can be causing the error?

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31910 is a reply to message #31898]

Tue, 23 May 2006 17:35

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I don't know, but it certainly does not sound like a FUDforum problem.

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Re: Mail - Notify From Setting in Admin Panel [message #31920 is a reply to message #31834]

Wed, 24 May 2006 06:40

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Ok, thank you so much for your time Ilia.

On a sidenote, eventhough you never give "straight answers" (which you shouldnt). FUDforum has the fastest and best support of all the "free" softwares I have ever used. You are the champ =) <3<3