Notify Email With Another Email Address

[psico]

What does this hack do?
This hack allows you to change the email address that vBulletin use to send mails to users. vBulletin by default use the webmaster?s email address, but if u don?t want to receive bounce mails or wrong replys from your users you can install this hack and then put another address like: no-reply@yoursite.com and configure an autoresponder with something like this:

"We don?t monitor this email address, please if u need to contact the webmaster please send an email to: webmaster@yoursite.com"

Version
1.0

Screenshots
N/A, this hacks no need screenshots... ;)

NOTES
This hacks works only with vBulletin 2.3.0 and higher.

PLEASE CLICK HERE IF U INSTALL THIS HACK (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?s=&action=install&threadid=56301)

[pie]

erm? but you can do this when sendng emails!?

[psico]

???
What do you mean?
I think that u don´t understand this hack...

[Dean C]

Nice idea :)

[insanctus]

Very nice idea, I get countless bounce backs.

I may port this over to my vb3 later :)

[psico]

u welcome ;)

Please if u install this hack click on INSTALL....tnx a lot.

[influence]

great idea. been looking for a fix like this.
I get ++++load of bounce and invalid address emails daily. over 500. really annoying so i will install this now.

*click*

[psico]

08-23-03 at 08:14 PM influence said this in Post #7 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=428243#post428243)
great idea. been looking for a fix like this.
I get ++++load of bounce and invalid address emails daily. over 500. really annoying so i will install this now.

*click*

me too ;)

[David Bott]

This is a good idea, but I would not make a e-mail account with an auto responder. Reason, like the SoBig.F virus. All this would do is just produce more e-mail on the net bouncing back to the sender. I would just make it with something like NoReply@Domain.com so it just goes away. In the body of your outgoing mails, give a good address as to the support address for them to read and send main to if needed. ;)

I like this hack though and will install for it will clear up the SoBig coming in, for we send out a lot of mail. I had to change my support names 3 time already to help fight it.

David Bott
AVS Forum

[David Bott]

Bummner...I tried to make it work well with 2.2.8 but I guess differnt e-mails are called differnt way in versions less than 2.3.

[psico]

Yesterday at 12:14 PM David Bott said this in Post #10 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=430964#post430964)
Bummner...I tried to make it work well with 2.2.8 but I guess differnt e-mails are called differnt way in versions less than 2.3.


Yeap...

vb2.2.8 don?t have the vbmail function so you have too many php's...

I recommend you to upgrade to the latest version.

[Bender NZ]

How might I get this going with vB3?

[influence]

ya can someone port this over to vb 3.0

[trulylowcarb]

Was just whining about this over at vbulletin.com and came here hoping some had already done it.
Their suggestion was:
On my forum I use a black hole for the webmaster address, and then use a PM link for the "Contact Us" link. This way all contacts go to my PM box.
Another option would be to specify a mailto for the "Contact Us" link

My reply was:
Well, that's really not a good solution...
I hate to let my current 'real' address become too public, it will just become unusable all too soon, like my other domain addys if I do that... and unregistered users cannot use the PM feature on my forum, (that just invites the spamming of my users instead of me, I think), so changing the contact us link to a PM link won't help the people who are having trouble activating or logging in, etc. And they are the ones who need that link to work the most.

Perhaps you could help me construct some sort of conditional that would allowed unregistered users to PM ONLY me, but no one else on the forum?

To restate this, what I want/need to do is modify this:
************************************************** **
<a href="$vboptions[contactuslink]">$vbphrase[contact_us]</a>
*************************************************
to use a real email address different from the one used by the automailer, but I still want to require them to use the form that doesn't reveal my address to them, not use a mailto link that advertises my addy to all and sundry.

Any other ideas for me? Besides trying to write filters in my email client for every conceivable bounce scenario, which is another thinig I am trying hard to avoid. I just don't need all the extra mail receiving and deleting that solution would force on me, who does...

This issue must bother many others, a standard option to differentiate between the two addresses should be a proposed suggestion for the next revision, if it isn't already ...

thx again

edit: found this in sendmessage.php
************************************************
vbmail($vboptions['webmasteremail'], $subject, $message, false, $email, '', $name);
************************************************
Is this where I could change the email destination?

At that point they sent me here .... and I am thinking maybe I was close to on target, I'll try messing with that portion of the code on my own and see what happens... but if someone, anyone with more knowledge (and that wouldn't need to be MUCH! trust me, LOL) can point me in a better direction, that would be much appreciated.

[trulylowcarb]

DANG, I must be catching on to this coding stuff okay ... because it appears to work just DANDY!!!

In sendmessage.php, FIND
vbmail($vboptions['webmasteremail'], $subject, $message, false, $email, '', $name);

CHANGE to:

vbmail('realemailaddy@yourdomain.com', $subject, $message, false, $email, '', $name);