Normans email perl script

[newshopbloke]

A huge thankyou to Norman for his email perl script, it works for me

I do still have a problem, when a customer receives an email from my shop (using the perl script) the 'from' address is very long and also contains my web hosting user name. Any ideas how I can change this ?

Regards

Mick

[NormanRouxel]

Check that the setting in View / Business Settings / Company/Contact / Contact / Email Address is OK.

Norman

[newshopbloke]

Norman,

The email address in View / Business Settings / Company/Contact / Contact / is :

myshop@btconnect.com

The from address that users see is :

my_hosting_plan_username@www2106.london21-verio.com

The BT address is what I originally had set up but BT's verification
did not allow its use via smtp.
If im to enter another address im not sure what because its now going through my verio.co.uk server ?

At least its working

Regards,

Mick

[NormanRouxel]

I think you're saying that the address

my_hosting_plan_username@www2106.london21-verio.com

does not appear anywhere within your Actinic settings but that Verio is putting it in.

All I can suggest is hard-coding your reply-to address into the patch.

Edit Actinic.pm and look for the line from my patch

if (!$sReturnAddress)

add the following line above it

$sReturnAddress = 'myshop@btconnect.com';

and see if that fixes it.

Norman

[newshopbloke]

Yes it is verio forcing the long address.
I tried your code in the .pm but it did not change the address.

The emails say 'undisclosed recipients', im not sure if thats a standrad feature of sendmail or not. If a customer replies, the email comes back to myshop@btconnect.com via verio's server.

Im going to phone verio now and see if they can shed some light on this.

Regards

Mick

[newshopbloke]

Update

Just thought I would update Norman and others on this.

Bt email team have finally responded and basically said "No, cant help sorry"

Verio have said that they can only help if I upgrade to a more expensive hosting plan, to which I said "Thanks but no thanks".

My only option is to wait for Actinic to release an email 'password' verification patch ?

Thanks

Mick

[Mike Hughes]

It's called V7.

Mike

[newshopbloke]

Mike,

I had read about v7 supporting password verification, I had not planned to upgrade so soon and was hoping for a patch.

Only time will tell.

Mick

[NormanRouxel]

I had read about v7 supporting password verification...

Well If Actinic don't get around to it in a V6 update I guess I'll just adapt the Perl autentication code from V7 and make a new V6 patch with it.

I think I'll do it by using a modified SMTP server name. E.g. servername|username|password - so if the "|" is detected in the servername the script breaks it into 3 parts and uses the Auth routine.

I'm busy for the next 2 weeks. So it won't happen right away.

Remind me in a couple of weeks if you don't hear any more.

Norman