WP2.1 – comment “from” field in notification is different

So no one else has come across this problem? ??

I’m looking at the code for 1.5.2 now, and the “From:” line in that was not the commenters information, it was the admin’s own email address.

In 2.1, the From: line is [email protected], except it’s your server’s name instead of example.com.

Edit: in 1.5-strayhorn, it did indeed use the comment author’s info as the From address. I believe this was removed for a variety of reasons. The ones I can think of are:
-Some providers will block emails with bad/fake From: addresses.
-Some receiving email systems will do the same.
-It’s easy to filter emails when you know what they’ll have.. A From: of “wordpress@…” is easy to create filters to catch and sort and such.

And so on.

Hi Otto42,

Thank you for the reply and for the explanation. At least now I know it’s not a problem with my installation of 2.1 per se.

Thanks again.

I’m seeing a problem that may be similar – when people leave comments the ‘Name’ field is sometimes auto-filled for them, but with a name different to their own (usually someone who has recently commented). It’s now happened under 2 and 2.1.

If they post to the blog with this name the post ‘takes’ but also gets reported to me as a mail delivery failure.

I’m having the problem with the “from” line of my email comment notification with WP 2.2 and am DESPERATE to get it fixed. I need to have the name or email address of the commenter displayed in the “from” portion of the email notification. Is there anyone with any ideas about how to change the “from” line from the host’s routing to the actual commenter’s name or email?

I had this same problem too, so I searched in the code. NB: Version 2.3.2.

The file:
wp-includes\pluggable.php

around line 550, new code:

$wp_email = 'wordpress@' . preg_replace('#^www\.#', '', strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']));

	if ( '' == $comment->comment_author ) {
		$from = "From: \"$blogname\" <$wp_email>";
		if ( '' != $comment->comment_author_email )
			$reply_to = "Reply-To: $comment->comment_author_email";
	} else {
		if ( '' != $comment->comment_author_email ) {
			$from = "From: \"$comment->comment_author\" <$comment->comment_author_email>";
			$reply_to = "Reply-To: \"$comment->comment_author\" <$comment->comment_author_email>";
		} else {
			$from = "From: \"$comment->comment_author\" <$wp_email>";
		}
	}

	$message_headers = "$from\n"

(The first few and the last line haven’t changed, so locating the code shouldn’t be too hard…)

This works here since the mail-server doesn’t filter the mail. YMMV.

With kind regards,

Fred Schenk

Regardless of the contents of the From: line, it’s also setting the Reply-To: header to be the correct email address, so replying to the email should send a response back to the submitted, not to the fake wordpress@ address. No need to hack it unless you really want to.

I have set up a wordpress@domain email address, installed the comment notifier plugin, and used the new code above, but the only way I can get emails to go to my admin email address is to forward them from my wordpress@domain email address, which negates the author in the From field.

I have tried every solution I could find on the forum, but I can’t seem to get emails sent to my admin address (a gmail address) with the author in the From field.

I am using WP 2.3.2.

Of course, the second I submit this question, the emails pop up. Maybe I should have done that sooner.

Is it resolved? Just wondering. ??