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General Community => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Hans on January 10, 2006, 09:11:21 PM
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Hello,
when I send a form from one of the WBmade sites I get an email from Kamperen@dime95.dizinc.com, while my host is Powweb.
Is this something to worry about?
Hans
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Yes, I think you have a problem there...
Is it version 2.6.1?
Search your database (if you have a web frontend, use it, otherwise export and search the file) for an occurrence of this address.
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Hi Stefan
no it's still 2.5.2 (haven't had the courage to switch until now :| It's a very complicated site) but there are no instances of any part of the emailaddress in the database, so I will ask my provider first (which isn't Powweb by the way, nor dizinc). I hope that it has nothing to do with WB now the database appears to be "clean".
Thanks so far
Hans
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Have you applied the login security patch?
Check your config file. Maybe that's where the strange e-mail address resides.
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Have you applied the login security patch?
No I haven't but I will surely search for it and apply it.
dime95.dizinc.com appears to be the mailserver of my provider (having a totally other name), so this is solved at some point.
I wonder however if it is possible to have this the site's own websiteaddress.
I ask this because the dizinc.com domain apparently is misused for spamming (see http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/COMPUTING/topspamdomains.html ) and therefor filtered by some providers.
If the part after the @ could be different than dizinc this issue could be resolved.
Thanks Stefan for your quick reply (as always) :-D
Hans
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Hi Hans,
I am not entirely shure, but if you look into the options, settings and the advanced settings, there you have a field calles "Server E-Mail".
I haven't used a mailing module yet so ... but to me it sounds at least like the option you are looking for.
cheers
Klaus
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I wonder however if it is possible to have this the site's own websiteaddress.
I ask this because the dizinc.com domain apparently is misused for spamming (see http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/COMPUTING/topspamdomains.html ) and therefor filtered by some providers.
If the part after the @ could be different than dizinc this issue could be resolved.
Today I had some e-mail/private message contact with pcwacht about the form module as I am having some problems with e-mail not ariving at some domains (e.g. tiscali.nl). After searching and digging the internet I found the following topic (and some more) as osCommerce Nederland:
link: http://forums.oscommerce.nl/index.php?s=24f628aa4d0f1336fdee5dacf9e72dc7&showtopic=6101&view=findpost&p=34972
There they mention that the tiscali provider checks e-mail if they have an existing MX Record. This check is been based upon the 'RFC821' protocol. When you use the custom field (like: name) for the 'email from' part of the form submission the result will be something like:
From: filled_in_name@dime95.dizinc.com
Return-Path: filled_in_name@dime95.dizinc.com
As Tiscali and some other providers do a MX lookup for the part behind the @ and do a lookup on the blacklist the e-mail will not arrive. If you would like to fix this, you need to dive into the sourcecode of the 'view.php' file of the form module or maybe take a look at pcwacht his version of the form module....
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Thanks Woudloper,
I will search for pcwacht's formmodule and look if that might help.
Hans
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I'm sorry to say that it wouldn't
It uses the same mail routines as the core form module
I am helping Woudloper to get his mailtrouble fixed, then we will post it here
In the meantime, make sure you have a sender address set in your form module, without a sender the mail function will take your servers name wich might get bounced!!
John
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In the meantime, make sure you have a sender address set in your form module, without a sender the mail function will take your servers name wich might get bounced!!
It does, even when I set a sender address in the form module :|
Hans