Sender email address

What version of 68 Classifieds are you running?
v4.2.4 Developer

What template are you using?
Modified Default

Please describe in detail the issue you are having:

I'm using a 3rd party SMTP service for the sending of emails from my site. Emails sent using the "Contact" forms are sent with the header using the email address given by whoever filled out the form. This is causing the emails to be rejected by the server as an unauthorised address.

I need to change the sender address for ALL contact emails to a single address that I can authorise on the server. e.g. [email protected]. I appreciate this will prevent the recipient from just clicking "reply", but as the sender address is in the body, don't see it as a major problem.

I guess the two files I need to edit are contact.php and contactus.php, but thought I'd try here to see if anybody knows exactly what to edit before I start trial and error.

Thanks in advance for any help

Andy

Using SMTP email relay with authorised email address - solution

Well after scratching my head, this appears to be incredibly straightforward. I'll stick the solution here in case anybody else ever has this requirement.

CONTACT SELLER FORM

Open up contact.php

Change (around line 96)

$vars['fromemail'] = $from;

to

$vars['fromemail'] = 'INSERT DESIRED EMAIL ADDRESS HERE';

Insert another line above or below with:

$vars['useremail'] = $from;

To prevent the sender name being that of whoever filled out the form, just above (line 94'ish) change:

$vars['name'] = $name;

to

$vars['name'] = 'INSERT DESIRED SENDER NAME HERE';

add a line above or below:

$vars['sendername'] = $name;

Save contact.php

Open up the contactowner.tpl file under "email" within your chosen template

Change (around line 14)

<strong>{$smarty.const.LANG_USER_EMAIL}:</strong> {$fromemail}<br />

to

<strong>{$smarty.const.LANG_USER_EMAIL}:</strong> {$useremail}<br />

and change

<strong>{$smarty.const.LANG_FULL_NAME}:</strong> {$name}<br />

to

<strong>{$smarty.const.LANG_FULL_NAME}:</strong> {$sendername}<br />

CONTACT US FORM

This is even easier:

Open up contactus.php

Change (around line 58):

$vars['fromemail'] = $from;

to

$vars['fromemail'] = 'INSERT DESIRED EMAIL ADDRESS HERE';

That's it. No template changes needed (at least under 4.2.4) though I did add "DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. MAILBOX NOT MONITORED" to the email templates. Not that folk will pay any attention, but at least they're warned

All appear to work fine. All emails generated by the package are sent with the address given in the two PHP files and which I've authorised on the SMTP relay server, but the contents of the emails still show the address given by the user.

Simples