Welcome emails have loooong From

[petey]

Where do we configure the "From description" email settings?

I noticed that the Welcome and Validation emails have my SEO-friendly and long site title as the "From" description. The actual email address is ok (gets it from the admin/settings) but I just want a short description to go with it.

I edited the "Site title" but that didn't make a difference. I'm using the SEO friendly module plus the SEO-Plus module from templatecodes. Not sure where the email-builder code is to reverse engineer where it gets its data from.

Thanks.

[John Snyder +]

You can edit the email templates in your template directory.

yoursite.com/templates/template-name/emails/

To edit your html templates:
yoursite.com/templates/template-name/emails/hmtl/

To edit you text templates:
yoursite.com/templates/template-name/emails/text/

The files that are attached to the top and bottom of every email are:
mail_header.tpl
mail_footer.tpl

The welcome template:
welcome.tpl

The validate template:
validate.tpl

The actual assignment of these variables comes from the core file that generates the email. In this case it is:

welcome:
userjoin.php around lines 214-222

validate:
includes/classes/kernel/Register.php around lines 189-210

You could also override these values by using the Mailer Class.

PHP Code:

$Mailer->From = '';
$Mailer->FromName = ''; 


[Eric Barnes]

I think the easiest thing would be to change the site title stored in administration to something smaller. Then edit the layout file and your long site title.

The file that sends the email is includes/classes/kernel/Mailer.php

[petey]

I'll put in a ticket to Hosting Services, Templates & More For 68 Classifieds Advertising as it might have to do with their SEO plus module.

Changing the site title in admin settings has no effect, as I mentioned in the OP but maybe was not clear enough.

I'll update this thread with the outcome for future ref.

Thanks.

[petey]

This seems to have been fixed by editing the Site title in admin/settings as Eric suggested above.

I am sure I *had* done that and recreated the problem before posting above, but maybe there was some cache issue on my server because with no further changes the issue went away.

Thanks for the code posting above for future reference and apologies for being too hasty with my post.

-Peter