Bug in SMF mailer

[Spuds]

My dense head  must be missing something on this one so I'm gonna bow out 

The "reply to" part of the header looks correct, its Owdy's email

You can not (by the standards) send an email From: your system to appear as though it came from another system e.g. the <sender> is the authenticated sender, which is the forum postman which in this case it is.  If you send an email from this forum, its not going to say it came from xyz @ gmail.com ... you could force it sure, but you will then spend a lot of time getting un-blacklisted as well.

The issue that some email client or users ignore the proper reply to header and instead reply to the from line has nothing to do with the headers being improperly constructed.   The only option I see is to not use the senders email in the "" part of the from header so its obvious (you would hope) in the reply. 

[emanuele]

ohhh...I understood the reply-to was set to the wrong address too, sorry!

[Owdy]

The issue that some email client or users ignore the proper reply to header and instead reply to the from line has nothing to do with the headers being improperly constructed. 

So thats why this feature should be disabled, or at least give option to do that. It is silly that i get email from someone, but it is actually from someone else. 

[emanuele]

Found: is linked to "Send topics to friends". Remove that permission and the option is gone.

[Illori]

they are talking about using the mail icon not send this topic.

[emanuele]

I know, but the permission is the same.

[Illori]

i dont think it is, the mail function to a user is not a permission at all.

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// What about if we allow email only via the forum??
if ($context['member']['show_email'] === 'yes' || $context['member']['show_email'] === 'no_through_forum' || $context['member']['show_email'] === 'yes_permission_override')
echo '
<li><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=emailuser;sa=email;uid=', $context['member']['id'], '" title="', $context['member']['show_email'] == 'yes' || $context['member']['show_email'] == 'yes_permission_override' ? $context['member']['email'] : '', '" rel="nofollow"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/email_sm.gif" alt="', $txt['email'], '" /></a></li>';


i dont see any global permission in that.

[emanuele]

Yups...was looking at the wrong line...

[Owdy]

i dont see any global permission in that.

Please ad this, i wanna disable this feature. 

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

It was actually some time last year that I mentioned this in the team boards. There is NO permission to control that, and there definitely should be one.