TearAByte wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:29 pm
I run several websites (Wordpress, Drupal) and they all send messages as from the system admin which is a valid address (ie;
[email protected]) and spam is a non-issue so I dont understand why this is a problem.
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The "its a spam issue" argument does not fly..
You don't understand. The sender address is of course address setting by admin in ACP. It can be admin @ website.com, it is not a problem. The problem is the sender address is reveal by setting it as a return address. So, if receiver wants to answer and will click on 'reply', he will see the sender address in he's email programm in the field 'recipient'. Or he can see return path in a source of e-mail message.
But I understand what Canonknisper and AmigoJack wrote. Probably it cannot be different.
As I wrote to make users aware:
"In the description of the contact form I added information that sending a message will reveal the sender's e-mail by placing it as a return address."
I suggest adding this to the official text in the description of the contact form, because not all users are aware of this. They think that if they send an e-mail through the forum, the sender will not know about their address. Awareness of certain things or rather unconsciousness by many people is what caused legal actions in the EU, which mainly consist in informing about cookies or about privacy policy. Computers goes to homes and people really use them without much awareness of what they do. Especially now, when they have everything at hand on your smartphone. They click and do not think.