Trust messages and reply-to

Von Smallhausen · 5 Feb 2011 at 17:52

I have posted this in the DR to be looked at.

MikeHiow · 7 Feb 2011 at 10:30

That's great, thanks

MikeHiow · 9 Feb 2011 at 23:33

Is there any feedback on this being implemented?

matthab · 9 Feb 2011 at 23:44

Ive done this a few times!

alex24 · 9 Feb 2011 at 23:46

Changes to the forums?! You must be crazy.

Good idea tho.

Freefaller · 9 Feb 2011 at 23:47

Not yet - but I have been contacted numerous times via trust, and it's relatively easy to just click on the person's email. However, I do appreciate it's a bit of a pain when you're used to just clicking on reply. However, it's the forum that generates that email, so I'm not sure if VB can be setup to have the originator email as the reply-to field. As soon as that admins have had a look I'm sure they'll let you all know.

We've had many changes to the forums over the past 10 years

agnes · 9 Feb 2011 at 23:47

Spyhop said:
Not a certain amount of sense, but complete 100% sense.

Definitely change this. I bet it has unknowingly halted or frustrated many MM sales.

I vouch for this, I tried to contact a member with my address, a entire day I kept trying and getting nothing back, started to worry about it as I had paid... I know I should have checked sooner, but considering I very rarely use MM... I didn't think to.

100% change the no reply.

ags

Substance · 10 Feb 2011 at 00:53

Freefaller said:
Not yet - but I have been contacted numerous times via trust, and it's relatively easy to just click on the person's email. However, I do appreciate it's a bit of a pain when you're used to just clicking on reply. However, it's the forum that generates that email, so I'm not sure if VB can be setup to have the originator email as the reply-to field. As soon as that admins have had a look I'm sure they'll let you all know.

We've had many changes to the forums over the past 10 years

Loads of changes, remember when we all voted whether black should be a theme option and it won the vote and black became a selec.... oh

G|mp · 10 Feb 2011 at 01:13

Doesn't it say in the email as well please reply to blah blah address?

Rroff · 10 Feb 2011 at 01:44

andy_mk3 said:
I can't imagine it would take up a HUGE amount of resources though, certainly nothing to make a dent in their profits!

Not so much these days but back when the system was setup bandwidth cost a premium and storage space wasn't cheap either.

JonJ678 · 10 Feb 2011 at 01:51

I'd be happy with the reply to field left blank if that's simpler to implement. I'm 90% sure my email client will warn me if I try to send mail without entering an address, but it's cheerfully sent several messages to noreply@overclockers.

MikeHiow · 10 Feb 2011 at 03:08

Freefaller said:
Not yet - but I have been contacted numerous times via trust, and it's relatively easy to just click on the person's email. However, I do appreciate it's a bit of a pain when you're used to just clicking on reply. However, it's the forum that generates that email, so I'm not sure if VB can be setup to have the originator email as the reply-to field. As soon as that admins have had a look I'm sure they'll let you all know.

We've had many changes to the forums over the past 10 years

It certainly can - the beauty of open source software. I'd be happy to advise or lend a hand if required.

That said, are you sure it's the forum that sends it? I'm pretty sure the trust system isn't standard to any of the many versions of VB I've come across

JonJ678 said:
I'd be happy with the reply to field left blank if that's simpler to implement. I'm 90% sure my email client will warn me if I try to send mail without entering an address, but it's cheerfully sent several messages to noreply@overclockers.

With no reply-to header set, your email client will default to replying to the From address.

Deleted member 651465 · 10 Feb 2011 at 03:53

Whoever monitors noreply@ will find a few messages from me

Freefaller · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:10

G|mp said:
Doesn't it say in the email as well please reply to blah blah address?

It does.

MikeHiow said:
It certainly can - the beauty of open source software. I'd be happy to advise or lend a hand if required.

That said, are you sure it's the forum that sends it? I'm pretty sure the trust system isn't standard to any of the many versions of VB I've come across

With no reply-to header set, your email client will default to replying to the From address.

I'm not expert of VB but the Admins have just said they're looking into it. As for Trust I think you're right it's a separate feature.

Freefaller · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:26

SuBsTaNcE said:
Loads of changes, remember when we all voted whether black should be a theme option and it won the vote and black became a selec.... oh

Still going about that theme? Lots of people have showed how you can do it, furthermore the poll was hardly a landslide.

Redgie · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:29

Another vote for it here, I'm always paranoid that people don't reply because they are replying to the noreply address

Sp00n · 10 Feb 2011 at 11:01

Freefaller said:
We've had many changes to the forums over the past 10 years

O'rly? Such as?

jaybee · 10 Feb 2011 at 11:09

orderoftheflame said:
I'm no expert, but 13k active users must have some amount of affect?

Where did you get 13k active from? Not digging just interested.

Freefaller said:
Still going about that theme? Lots of people have showed how you can do it, furthermore the poll was hardly a landslide.

Can you link me to that freefaller? I'd be interested to know why we can't select different skins and really want to view the forums in a plain colour.

Sp00n · 10 Feb 2011 at 11:20

jaybee said:
Where did you get 13k active from? Not digging just interested.

jaybee said:
Can you link me to that freefaller? I'd be interested to know why we can't select different skins and really want to view the forums in a plain colour.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18072492&highlight=stylish+theme

Pho · 10 Feb 2011 at 11:28

Freefaller said:
It does.

I'm not expert of VB but the Admins have just said they're looking into it. As for Trust I think you're right it's a separate feature.

Browse to the directory where trust is on the server. Find mail.php, ctrl+f for a call to mail(), modify the headers parameter. Done

.

PHP:

<?php
$headers .= "Reply-To: $userName <$userEmail>\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Trust messages and reply-to

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