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by s9yrookie
Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:02 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Email notifications - configure "from address"
Replies: 7
Views: 5814

Re: Email notifications - configure "from address"

So you say you are using Serendipity with a RasPi Server, with Sendmail and Apache, at home and behind a dynIP DDNS? You're correct on points 1-5, my ISP has allocated me a static IP address. Now I did read somewhere that for things to work the ISP needs to set correct PTR / reverse dns lookup. dig...
by s9yrookie
Fri Jan 22, 2016 6:23 am
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Email notifications - configure "from address"
Replies: 7
Views: 5814

Re: Email notifications - configure "from address"

I supposed you had done that already... Did you add it to configuration - general settings globally and also in your personal preferences? Try that, if not. LOL, I supposed I had already done that also... turns out I set an email address for the primary user / administrator but left the other one b...
by s9yrookie
Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:27 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Email notifications - configure "from address"
Replies: 7
Views: 5814

Re: Email notifications - configure "from address"

Wow, thanks for the super quick response. Actually I didn't realise I left the blog's email address blank in the config, hence the defaults. Entering a value has set the From and Reply To headers appropriately. Return path unchanged. I hate messing with things I don't understand, so I think I'm happ...
by s9yrookie
Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:09 am
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Email notifications - configure "from address"
Replies: 7
Views: 5814

Email notifications - configure "from address"

Hi all, My linux distro (Raspbian) did not come with sendmail installed, so I've gone by without email notifications for some time. Finally got around to fixing it and now my blog generates outgoing emails which my ISP is happy to pass on. Yeay! Only problem is I would like to customise the email's ...
by s9yrookie
Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:25 am
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Escaping * and _ charaters
Replies: 1
Views: 2767

Escaping * and _ charaters

My first experiences with blogging, so a big thank you to all who've contributed to a great tool... One simple question: often when I paste code (mainly error messages etc) into the editor any asterisks and underscore characters are treated as formatting directives. This applies both to blog content...