Bug: Spam Notification Email from: address

  • I’m running a multisite network and have circa ten sites active, some with common administrators on board. One of the sites has Akismet active (the rest have comments disabled using comment control).

    When WordPress sends me a spam notification, it precedes the admin email address with the name of a blog, eg: from BlogName <[email protected]>

    It’s consistently getting BlogName wrong – appearing to pick the latest blog created with that admin address, even though the rest of the message relates to spam in a different site on the network.

    Bug?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Given that Akismet doesn’t email you about spam… What’s doing that?

    Thread Starter IanWaring

    (@ianwaring)

    Standard email saying there is a comment there awaiting review. Two pages on one of the non Akismet sites didn’t have comments disabled, but did have things set that any posts needed to be moderated first. It is consistently getting the blog name wrong in the from: part of the email sent to tell us a comment is awaiting review…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Ah, okay, that’s not ‘Akismet’ that’s WordPress ?? Important to be specific when you say that stuff.

    “from BlogName <[email protected]>”

    Is any of the information from the subsite?

    Thread Starter IanWaring

    (@ianwaring)

    Sorry. The original note should have read “when WordPress sends me a comment notification by email”.

    The blog name in front of the administrator address is in the from: field reflects one of the blogs in the network where that email address is an administrator, just not the correct one. I’ll routinely get a comment posted to https://www.hergalodge.org.uk and be told the email notification from address is brainstormers.info <[email protected]>. The content (often an SEO company) contains text that pertains to the actual site where the comment is present – but where the stated from: blog name is completely wrong.

    So, a WordPress bug…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I’m not convinced, but mostly because your description is confusing and I THINK you’re actually talking about a pingback email, which does look different.

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