Frontpage configuration issue

markcw · Post by **markcw** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 9:47 am

I have some user websites using Frontpage with email. The from field on the email shows up as wwwwebh@www2.prioritycolocation.com for those Frontpage hosting accounts. Note: wwwwebh is the user name of the hosting account.

I have researched this issue and here is what needs to be done.

Change the frontpage configuration file: /usr/local/frontpage/version4.0/frontpg.cnf

Option 'MailSender' has a default Value "" - which becomes 'wwwwebh@www2.prioritycolocation.com'

Change the default to "Webmaster" so resellers do not need to explain what the problem is with Frontpage mail.

This info is in the Frontpage Resource kit: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk/

MailSender
Sets the user name to use as the From account when sending e-mail. Specifically, it is used as the argument to the SEND FROM: command in SMTP. The default for SMTP is user@host, where user is the current user account and host is the current host name.

Thanks

p.s. you will need to change on all your servers. Not sure if anything needs to be recompiled.

Post by **porcupine** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 2:32 am

give it a try now, i've modified the file (although it wasn't the same file, we're running 5.0, and the option wasn't in there), if it doesen't work, let me know, so i can fix it before i go out this weekend (a weekend off, hurrah!)

markcw · Post by **markcw** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 12:10 pm

Nope, I'm still getting the

wwwwebh@www2.prioritycolocation.com as the from name on the email.

Post by **porcupine** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 9:19 pm

markcw wrote:Nope, I'm still getting the

wwwwebh@www2.prioritycolocation.com as the from name on the email.

Humm,

Well i've followed those directions, theres a domain by domain option for it also it looks, but your guess is as good as mine if instructions you've provided don't work properly. If you've got more ideas, just let me know, i'd be happy to give 'em a go

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markcw · Post by **markcw** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 9:40 am

frontpage.cnf should hold the entire server global defaults.

Could you attach or send to my personal email at webmaster@staffsolutions.com

If MailSender is not in that file the default kicks in. A new line will need to be added as

mailsender = webmaster

(not sure of syntax of the file itself)

If this is corrected, it will correct every account for every reseller and every web site using frontpage on the server.