About two month ago I wrote about small issues I faced when I upgraded from BlogEngine.NET 1.3.1 to version 1.4. Today I updated my blog software again, this time to the trunk version of BlogEngine.NET. Almost everything went smoothly there were a few glitches I had to fix before I was satisfied with the results.

Here are the most important points: 

• First of all, the issues with the strange author name in the RSS feed (mail.nospam@nospam.andreloker.de) has been taken care of in version 1.4.5.5. Nice! Note that the official 1.4.5 release from august 1st does not yet fix the issue. You'll need a revision 16044 or higher.
• The strange e-mail fields (second point in my first post) are not really fixed - as far as "fixed" is the correct term - according to Mads Kristensen this was attentional. Mads has changed the behaviour a bit, however to the worse if you ask me. As mentioned in my first post if someone contacts you with the contact form you'd get an e-mail with your name and your email address as the "From" field. "Sender" and "Reply-To" headers are added which include the author's name and e-mail address. I mentioned some issues that are caused by this, for example that Thunderbird uses the "From" field when quoting a mail ("Andre Loker wrote:")
  Now it has changed slightly: the "From" field contains the name of the mail's author but the e-mail address of your blog. While this fixes the issue when quoting the mail it causes a worse issue: if you try to add the author to your address book, chances are that your mail application uses the author's name but your e-mail address. I created an issue for this bug - at least I think it should be considered a bug.
  To sanitize the situation I modified the code to create one reasonable "from" header and don't add any further headers to the mail:
  

     1: // Contact.aspx.cs - replace this:

     2: mail.From = new MailAddress(BlogSettings.Instance.Email, name);

     3: mail.ReplyTo = new MailAddress(email, name);

     4: mail.Sender = mail.ReplyTo;

     5:  

     6: // with:

     7: mail.From = new MailAddress(email, name);

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• The current version of the contact form behaves a bit odd or doesn't work at all if attachments are disabled in the contact form, as it is in my blog. The issue is known, so we can expect a fix in the future. As a preliminary fix you can change contact.aspx like this:
  

     1: // line 48ff:

     2: // replace:

     3: if ($('<%=txtAttachment.ClientID%>').value.length > 0)

     4:   return true;

     5:  

     6: //with

     7: <% if(BlogSettings.Instance.EnableContactAttachments) {%>

     8: if ($('<%=txtAttachment.ClientID%>').value.length > 0)

     9:   return true;

    10: <%}%>

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Aside from these issues the people behind BlogEngine.NET have done a great task to improve their product.  I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone asking for .NET based blogging software.