change return address for e-mailed notices?

[JRob_MN]

I'll confess to a certain degree of ignorance here, up front. A friend of mine helped me to get Serendipity set up a few years back for a special event that I wanted to blog, and I've largely ignored it for great swaths of time since then. I'm running into an annoyance, and my friend is out of town for a month.

Serendipity has been trying to e-mail me when people create trackbacks to my blog, but the e-mails are failing because the return address is not configured properly. It's showing as "John and Charles Robinson <>"

(note the lack of any actual e-mail address inside the brackets)

However, I'm unable to figure out where this information is stored, or how to change it.

FWIW, I'm running it on a Windows XP box, and the blog is accessible at

http://blog.robinsontwins.org/

I've tried searching and googling, but I'm so very very ignorant that I probably am not framing the question properly for good search results. Can anyone bump me in the right direction?

Thanks.

[judebert]

From your admin page, click configuration. Under General Settings, you'll find "Blog's email address". Change it to whatever you want. Some hosting services filter email based on this address, so it should be something valid.

[JRob_MN]

Perhaps that's the source of my distress: that option is not available.

I see (in order) under the "general settings" section:

"Allow users to subscribe to entries? "
"Blog name "
"Blog description"
"Language"
"Use visitor's browser language as default "

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Sadly this is simply because your blog is outdated.

A Lot.

3 years, actually. In that old version, the config option for the mail address was simply missing, there's no proper way to configure it. In older s9y versions, s9y relied on the local mail server to specify your return path address. A lot of mail server's didn't do that, so serendipity versions (as of 0.9 I believe) got a config option for the mail address.

I'm afraid you'll need to update, if you want this fixed. Due to the oldness of yourpage, the update procedure might be a bit more troublesome than if you updated frmo a version only a year old. In your case, several Database updated will need to be performed. I'd actually suggest that if you're less known with your blog setup, your friend should do the update.

The steps are outliend in the FAQ on s9y.org, and usually all it takes are a few minutes uploading, and then a single click in the admin installer. However, a backup is recommended prior to that, and you might not have the tools to do so?

Best regards,
Garvin

[Don Chambers]

Garvin - why would the update be troublesome? The docs say

"No specific tasks are required to update Serendipity versions after 0.8 to the current ones. The complete upgrade path is automatted and can be performed with a single mouse click."

Would it be safer with old versions to upgrade incrementally, such as 0.8 -> 0.9 -> 1.0 -> 1.3?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Garvin - why would the update be troublesome? The docs say

"No specific tasks are required to update Serendipity versions after 0.8 to the current ones. The complete upgrade path is automatted and can be performed with a single mouse click."

Would it be safer with old versions to upgrade incrementally, such as 0.8 -> 0.9 -> 1.0 -> 1.3?

No, I was only talking of the sheer amount of DB upgrade. And the more updates that needs executing, the more likely could a problem with the DB happen, like if you are missing "CREATE INDEX" privileges.

So, theoretically the update should be easy, but in reality, a backup is required for cases that one cannot think of. The probability of a failure from 1.3 to 1.3.1 is much less likely, because there are simply not many code changes.

Regards,
Garvin