"from" email address on festival submissions

[joshgrossman]

Hi Andrew,

Currently, festival submissions which come in via the online form show a "from" name and address of Andrew Fountain andrew@drup.org. Is it possible to change the form so that the submitter's name and email address appear in the "from" field? (Or is there some reason it's not currently set up that way?)

Josh

[andrewfn]

I have had a look and I think I have re-configured it correctly. Maybe you could test it out and close the issue if it looks good.

[joshgrossman]

Is there a way to test the form without filling in a bogus submission?

[andrewfn]

Unfortunately not, but you could delete the submission, or just wait for the next real one if they are fairly frequent.

[joshgrossman]

Just tried and sent you the email results - not working quite yet.

[andrewfn]

I can see what you mean. It is weird because everything is changed. Looking into it further.

[andrewfn]

I have made a fresh clone of the website at http://dev.jazz.to/ I tested it out and it seems to work ok. Give it a try yourself and let me know. It could be that there was a caching problem with the change not having got through the system.

[joshgrossman]

Still coming from andrew@drup.org, even on the dev site...Should I try flushing the cache and trying again?

[andrewfn]

I think I have found the issue. There are actually two fields:

• from:
• reply to:

Some email programs only show you the "reply to", but the andrew@drup.org was in the "from". The "from" is the owner of the server that is physically sending the email, so really should be something like tdjs@tojazz.com. It cannot change for each email. So I have changed it to tdjs@tojazz.com The "reply to" field contains the email address of person who filled out the form.

Have another try and see if this matches what you are now getting.

[joshgrossman]

Okay - seems to be working, with "from" field showing tdjs@tojazz.com, and "reply to" field showing the actual artist's email. Thanks.