The sender mail address is always site address [#200415]

I found even I set the E-mail from ("smtp_from" in variable table), the send address is still the site address ("site_mail" in variable table).

I checked the code and I guess the reason is here. I found the $from is not empty and is not the same as 'smtp_from', but I cannot find which program assign the $from value.

  //If from email address is blank use smtp_from config option
  if ($from == '' && variable_get('smtp_from', '') != ''){
    $from = variable_get('smtp_from', '');
  }

And when I marked the if condition, the smtp module get the smtp_from now.

  //If from email address is blank use smtp_from config option
//  if ($from == '' && variable_get('smtp_from', '') != ''){
    $from = variable_get('smtp_from', '');
//  }

Comments

Comment #1

dennys commented 30 December 2007 at 07:00

I found the mail from drupal is noreply@drupal.org, I think it's correct. Especially when I use Forward module. If smtp always uses the site address, then an spamer just need to forward a mail to himself and he can get the email address of the site administrator.

Comment #2

oadaeh commented 15 January 2008 at 21:16

I could not reproduce this behavior. See my comment here: http://drupal.org/node/207925#comment-692784

Comment #3

oadaeh commented 8 October 2008 at 15:35

Assigned:	Unassigned	» oadaeh
Priority:	Critical	» Normal

This is an FYI for all concerned parties. (This message is duplicated on the issues listed below. Read on for the why.)

I don't actually like the way the From e-mail address is handled in the code for the SMTP Authentication Support module. I have plans to change it, but because I think it will be a bit of a paradigm shift to change it so it works better and makes more sense, I was kind of waiting for my last massive changes is settle in a bit to see if they were causing anyone any problems before I potentially created more problems.

Although all the relevant issues are all pretty much duplicates of each other, there are some nuances in each that I want to capture in my work through the code. These are the relevant issues that I'll be working on together:
http://drupal.org/node/200415
http://drupal.org/node/279836
http://drupal.org/node/295655
http://drupal.org/node/300055

Just know that I will be working on these in the next month or so (sooner, if I get my current task list cleared up).

BTW, I'll be making the changes first in the 6.x branch. Once everything is settled, I'll backport them to the 5.x branch.

Comment #4

yudi_set commented 7 August 2009 at 09:17

Hi,
I'm a newbie.

Just wondering any updates yet on resolving this issue?

Thank you.

Comment #5

rfay

he,him

English

Palisade, CO, USA

commented 28 September 2009 at 21:55

An odd piece of information:

On cpanel, Centos 5, I suddenly got correct "From" addresses when I changed to use authentication and use a regular user account. Previously I had been using the email account of the account master (an account like 'roger') but when I switched to use an ordinary user account like 'roger@example.com', I got correct from addresses (the from specified by smtp module).