See Comment::send_email_notifications() in /blogs/inc/MODEL/comments/_comment.class.php.

From looking at the code it should use the address of registered users as the From address, but not if it's a visitor (who has also given an e-mail address).

IMHO it's a bad thing that the email address of members gets used: a spammer would "just" have to subscribe to comments and then gets real email addresses.. :/

I'll file a todo request to change this and use the built in message form instead (linking there from the email body).
But on the other hand you are right and it would be handy to have the mails ready for replying. It should be an option somewhere, defaulting to not use the email addresses for public mails.

Hi Blueyed,

I can't figure out what to change in the _comment.class/php file to cause the email to appear to be from the sender.

alternatively, how about adding something so that the from address is the b2evo thing but the reply-to is the sender's email?

thanks,
Ross

I'm also trying to figure this out.
I would like the user to be in the From section in the e-mails I get, and also, and its important that when i hit reply it sends an e-mail to the user that put up the comment.

i'm trying to get the subject of the e-mails i get to not have the blog title at the beginning, the code to call it up is '%s' but the same code is used to call up the post title, so if i delete the blog title the post title automatically changes itself to the blog title.

How can I change the default from address of b2ev@mydomain.com to myname@mydomain.com?

I'm referring to the email that users get when the register and get the validation email from b2ev@mydomain.com

Can anyone speak to this?

I believe the commenter's address should never appear in the "From" field of an email notification, since SPF and other SenderID server identification frameworks prevent those emails from being delivered correctly and your server might be flagged as spammer by some large audience email services.

However, a "Reply to" field might be used in order to help the administrator to contact a comment's author.