Notify Email With Another Email Address

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.

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[psico]

Yesterday at 12:14 PM David Bott said this in Post #10
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>
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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
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vbmail($vboptions['webmasteremail'], $subject, $message, false, $email, '', $name);
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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

PHP Code:

vbmail($vboptions['webmasteremail'], $subject, $message, false, $email, '', $name); 


CHANGE to:

PHP Code:

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