> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wp-docs- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Peek > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:51 PM > To: WordPress Documentation > Subject: [wp-docs] Modify installation page to mention > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm doing my second WordPress installation. I remember a surprise > after my first installation: that WordPress was sending emails from > the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] But nothing I read had told me > about that address. So any email sent to that address (say, a > bounced message) would go nowhere. That doesn't seem like good > admin practice to me, and it also might lose useful info (that, > say, someone registered with a bogus email address).
Why would anyone send something to that address in normal practice? You think it might happen on a site with multiple loosely connected contributors or something? > I created a mail alias on my server to forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to me. I'm thinking that would be a good thing to add to the page > http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress . But I thought > there might be a reason why this isn't mentioned -- even as an > "optional" step. And I also wonder where to put this info in that > install doc: it doesn't seem to fit anywhere, so I'm thinking that > a new section would be the right place. Finally: some users can't > set up arbitrary email addresses on their server, so maybe they'd > want to change the wordpress email address to something else (like > an account at Yahoo, their personal email address, etc.) There are a variety of spam related reasons why using a different domain might be a bad idea for sending these emails. Perhaps changing the account, the part before the domain could be done. I'm not sure what the implications of simply including a Reply-To header might be, but perhaps that would be the best solution. JSR/ _______________________________________________ wp-docs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
