I have experienced a serious problem in which a reply by me is posted on site under the wrong name. This is the sequence:

I create a new topic either by email (using a dedicated email address - not the mail comment address) or on-line.
A Notification of the new topic is sent out.
A different member comments on my topic by replying to the Notification.
His reply (comment) is posted on-line in the correct place demonstrating mail comment is doing its job.
A Notification of the new comment is sent out.
So far so good, but now the problem:
I reply by email to the comment my friend made. The comment is uploaded and put in the right place but it says it is from my friend!

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Remon’s picture

Remon commented

Any updates on this issue?

ezra-g’s picture

ezra-g commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev

With the latest 2.x dev of Mailhandler and 6.x-2.2 of Mailcomment I'm having a similar issue: All comments are attributed to user 1 regardless of the author.

From some debugging, I found that the MailcommentAuthenticate class isn't being used to determine the author. My expectation was that this class would be used by mailcomment instead of MailhandlerAuthenticate, but I see that mailcomment_default.module also sets MailhandlerAuthenticate as the default authentication plugin in its featureized export.

MailcommentAuthenticate doesn't appear as an option at admin/build/feeds/edit/mailhandler_comments/settings/MailhandlerParser under the "Authentication plugin" dropdown, which leads me to wonder if it's being defined incorrectly in some way.

I'd love to file a patch to correct this. It would be great to get some confirmation that this is the right line of debugging. I'm in #drupal-contribute on IRC if you'd like to chat.

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danepowell commented

Just FYI, 6.x-1.x is no loner maintained so I can't speak to the original issue.

As to #2- I'm not sure why the MailhandlerAuthenticate plugin isn't working, it should just key off of the sender's address. At any rate, I agree that it's a bug that the default importer uses MailhandlerAuthenticate, and I think you are on the right track overall.

danepowell’s picture

danepowell commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I changed the default authentication plugin to MailcommentAuthenticate.

http://drupalcode.org/project/mailcomment.git/commit/3ea7f89e493c9aec543...
http://drupalcode.org/project/mailcomment.git/commit/a9f101ac04277a998c6...

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.