{"id":878,"date":"2009-01-29T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2010-01-09T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T19:02:08","slug":"mail-from-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/01\/29\/mail-from-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail From Address"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears CE\/Vista has several locations for defining the email addresses it uses for SMTP.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/config\/config.xml:
    \nmail.from=
    \nFrom address for messages sent.<\/li>\n
  2. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/customconfig\/startup.properties:
    \nWEBCT_ADMIN_EMAIL=
    \nSome internal errors have a mailto: prompt to contact the server administrator.<\/li>\n
  3. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/serverconfs\/log4j.properties:
    \nlog4j.appender.EMail.To=
    \nReport fatal errors.<\/li>\n
  4. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/serverconfs\/log4jstartup.properties:
    \nlog4j.appender.EMail.To=
    \nReport fatal errors.<\/li>\n
  5. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/webctInstalledServer.properties:
    \nWEBCT_ADMIN_EMAIL=
    \nInstaller picks up this value for populating #2 and possibly #3 and #4.<\/li>\n
  6. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/webctInstalledServer.properties:
    \nMAIL_ORIGIN=
    \nInstaller picks up this value for populating #1.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What really disturbs me is the Vista 8 installer created log4j properties files with the \u00c2\u00a0SMTP server set up for miles.webct.com and sending from\u00c2\u00a0vista.monitor@webct.com? I cannot seem to find anything in the Vista 8 documentation or wiki or Google index about the “Vista Trap Notification” subject line, from address, or SMTP address which the log4j appender appears to be designed to send.<\/p>\n

    This Vista Trap Notification appears designed to send an email to the address any time a fatal error is encountered. That’s fine. Just use the smtp host and From address requested in the installer.<\/p>\n

    Don’t get me started about giving end users a mailto: prompt to report errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It appears CE\/Vista has several locations for defining the email addresses it uses for SMTP. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/config\/config.xml: mail.from= From address for messages sent. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/customconfig\/startup.properties: WEBCT_ADMIN_EMAIL= Some internal errors have a mailto: prompt to contact the server administrator. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/serverconfs\/log4j.properties: log4j.appender.EMail.To= Report fatal errors. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/serverconfs\/log4jstartup.properties: log4j.appender.EMail.To= Report fatal errors. $WEBCTDOMAIN\/webctInstalledServer.properties: WEBCT_ADMIN_EMAIL= Installer picks up this value for populating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[990,591,167,185,73,660,193,3054,389,377,334,112,221,362],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbvista","tag-blackboard-cevista","tag-blackboard-inc","tag-design","tag-documentation","tag-email","tag-email-address","tag-error","tag-google","tag-port","tag-server","tag-server-administrator","tag-users","tag-webct","tag-xml"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-ea","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}