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When someone leaves a comment, the notification email that is sent has MY email address as the sender, and the commenter’s email address set as Reply-To

Is there a way to change this?

I believe that the photo gallery comments come addressed as From the commenter. I have compared the templates and cannot see much difference. Both have Posted by: {url_or_email_as_author} for logged in members, and just {email} for not logged in.

This is hard coded and not a configurable:

$email->from($PREFS->ini('webmaster_email'), $PREFS->ini('webmaster_name'));    
$email->to($addy); 
$email->reply_to($replyto);

I vaguely recall this is due to the fact that sending from a different domain may cause issues.  I can double check that if you need to know for sure why it’s set that way.  I’m fairly certain that’s the case.

It’s annoying because Gmail is retarded and doesn’t correctly address email when there is a “Reply-To” address that is different. Also, comments from photo gallery posts DO have the commenter’s address in the From spot. I can’t see any difference in the template for the two.

I guess I’ll just chalk it up to another annoyance that can’t be fixed ... along with the image code that is generated for blog entries. I’m getting good at finding things that can’t be fixed it seems ....

As noted above, when a comment notification is sent to the author of a weblog entry, the system sends it ‘from’ the email address configured in Admin->System Preferences->Email Configuration->Return email address for auto-generated emails.

However, the gallery module seems to send comment notifications ‘from’ the person who posted the comment, thus revealing the commenter’s email address to the person who originally posted the photo.  Not good.

Can the gallery module be changed to be consistent with the weblog module in this regard?

Saratoga UK:

Please feel free to make a Feature Request to change this behavior. 

If anything else comes up, please don’t hesitate to start a new thread.

Regards,

-greg