Spam emails and server delivery error emails

Hello,

I am getting a lot of spam emails and want to setup a noreply email instead of having my genuine email sent to members everytime they get a topic reply email.

I am alse getting a lot of delivery failure emails from my email server where members signup, post, then leave changing their email to dead one.

If I change the email in the VB CP im concerned that the contact us page will no longer work as it will send the emails to a dummy email address.

Thank you.

Dave,

This is a setting in your AdminCP.

From memory - AdminCP - vBulletin Options - vBulletin Options - General Settings?

If not there, go 'Show All Settings' and do a Find for "email". Look for Webmaster Email Address or something similar.

Ok i have changed my email to a noreply@domain.com

That has stopped the email falling into the wrong hands and also stopped the failed delivery emails from my mail server.

Problem is the contact us page no longer works as the emails are sent to the dummy email.

What I dont get is on this site the email is also noreply@domain.com but when you goto you contact us page the page code is the standard vBulletin so how do you get your emails?

Try this mod: sendmessage creates new thread and mail forwards - vBulletin.org Forum

It appears to both post contactus messages as a new thread, and allow you to specify additional addresses to which the email is sent.

Cheers fella!

No problemo Dave, I hope it works for you.. I haven't tried it myself.

No it wont work.

Reason being I will need the original contact us page active, which means i will get another failed delivery message because of the noreply@domian.com in the vBulletin contact email field.

I will get the message to the address to in the new MOD cp but getting one good email and one failed delivery email defeats the point really.

Think i need a custom contact us page coded by someone.

If anyone is up for it PM me, can pay.

It shouldn't be too hard to do.

If you haven't had a response within the next 9 or so hours, I will take a crack when I get home.

Thank you, thats very nice of you to offer.

Again, no problem.

At a guess, it will be a simple matter of replacing $vbulletin ->option[webmasteremail] with a hardcoded address.

Yeah, the sendmessage.php page is fine to use, its just needs to goto a different email to the one coded in the VB CP.

PHP Code:

if (!empty($alt_email))
        {
            if ($destemail == $vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'])
            {
                $ip = IPADDRESS;
            }
            else
            {
                $ip =& $vbphrase['n_a'];
            }
            $destemail =& $alt_email;
        }
        else
        {
            $ip = IPADDRESS;
            $destemail =& $vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'];
        } 


Right there, we need to define $destemail as whatever you wanted. Afraid I can't test anything, so will see if anyone knows the format off the top of their head?

Okey.

Offer still stands to anyone reading - will pay for custom contact us page.

Thanks.

Another option is to go to:
Admincp >> vbulletin options >> Site name/URL/Contact Details >> Contact Us details

In here, use the vbulletin option of defining an e-mail address to send the various options to:
{admin@domain.com} Website Problems
{admin@domain.com} Registration Problems
etc.