Question

I've forgotten my password, and never received the email when I tried to recover it; or I forgot or did not set my password hint, so I cannot recover my password.

Answer

Check Spam Filters First

If you are not receiving the password recovery emails, and you know sendmail is working on your server (i.e., you still receive comment and TrackBack notifications), check your spam filters to see if the emails have been misdirected.

Using a Version Below 3.2?

If you're running a version of Movable Type prior to 3.2, you may be able to reset...

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This section of the appendix details all configuration directives that can be defined in mt-config.cgi. Through use of these directives, you can control numerous aspects of the system.

Except for those which define things specific to your system (e.g. CGIPath and your database settings), all of them have defaults set by Movable Type. This means that not every directive will appear in mt-config.cgi. If you wish to override the default for a setting which does not appear in the file, simply add it and the desired value to your mt-config.cgi.

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EmailVerificationSecret

If you are exposing the mt-add-notify.cgi interface to users, allowing them to sign up for site update notifications, you should set this value to something that outsiders would not be able to guess. This allows Movable Type to secure the notification signup process so that visitors have to verify their email addresses.

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Question

My webserver doesn't have sendmail; how do I use SMTP instead?

Answer

If you have tried to get sendmail working, or if you know that your webserver doesn't have sendmail (for example, if you're on a Windows server), Movable Type allows you to send email messages through SMTP. To do this, you will need to install the Mail::Sendmail Perl module; if you are on a Windows server, you can do this using Activestate's ppm tool. Launch ppm, then at the prompt, type install Mail::Sendmail

and ppm will do all of the work to install the module. If...

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• Initial beta release

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0.02 (2001.09.25)

• Added FTP URLs to installation instructions. (Daniel Talsky) • Fix some warnings. (Caroline van Oosten de Boer)...

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0.03 (2001.09.26)

• Added Bookmarklet posting functionality, with a link to setup on the main project administration menu. • In List Entries, if a post does not have a title display [No title] instead as a link. • Changed login cookie path from / to /path/to/mt/. For example, if you installed MT at /my/mt/mt.cgi, the path for the cookie would now be /my/mt/. • MT::Util::send_mt_mail now checks for more default locations of sendmail, instead of giving up, until it finds one that works. It now checks /usr/lib/sendmail, /usr/sbin/sendmail, and /usr/ucblib/sendmail...

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We've worked hard to make sure all the configuration settings for your weblogs are more intuitively organized and simplified, while still retaining all the power and control that Movable Type affords.

New in Movable Type 3.2 is a reorganization of weblog configuration into a few weblog settings screens. One of the most notable is the Feedback settings, which govern comments and TrackBacks. At the simplest level, there's a blog-level on/off switch for both comments and TrackBacks, and the options for each have been reduced to cover all the common scenarios for enabling feedback on a blog. You can easily require authentication, make it optional, or not require it at all, and it's...

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Chad Everett's Notifier plugin was one of the plugins released as part of our plugin pack of contest winners when Movable Type 3.1 came out, and now he's updated this indispensable plugin to version 2.3. Notifier now lets you subscribe to email notification for new posts on a Movable Type weblog, as well as notification for new comments.

Chad's also started a Dropcash campaign to help him get a Mac for testing his plugins. Mac fans, go give him a dollar or two.

Trackbacks:

Previous Entry: Microsoft Research on blogs vs. email

Next Entry: Forrester's blog analysis

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I've added some redirect information to the confirmation screen that will allow the user to go directly to the entry or the blog that was used in the subscription. I decided to use this rather than a referrer field, as it was a bit easier. Please let me know what you think.

I also added some extra information to the notification email, so you can see the name of the author of the comment (and their URL, if specified). To do this, I flipped some things around a bit, so your notifications will look slightly different than they did with version 1.0.

I modified the plugin to pull the "from" name from the author of the entry that is being commented on. If this author has no email value in...

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When a visitor submits a comment, sometimes it takes a while for the comment page to refresh to reflect that their comment was successfully added. During this time, the user may click the "Post" button again (and again) which causes their comment to be submitted multiple times.

This hack modifies MovableType to simply ignore the same comment being entered multiple times for an entry. Two comments are considered the same if the comment text and the name, email address and url of the comment auther are exactly the same.

The original post says if you are using Blacklist you need to modify the MTBlacklist.pm file. This is not true if you are using Version 1.62 because Jay Allen took the mail functions out. So if you are using Blacklist, you should modify exlib/jayallen/MTBlPost.pm. For trackbacks, modify MTBlPing.pm....

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3-Column 404 Error About Page Absolute Pixel Sizes Accessibility Activity Log Add Your Links Here Adding An Author Additional Weblog Adsense Advertising Affiliate Programs Align Attribute Alphabetize Entries Alternative Search Template Amazon Amazon Web Services Archive Pages Archives Ascii Characters and Symbols Ascii Mode Audioblog Author Archives Authors Background Background Patterns Backing Up Your Blog Backup Banner Banner Images Berkeley DB Binary Mode BinHex Mode Blockquotes Blog Maintenance Bloglet Book Review Bookmarklet BookQueueToo Buttons Captcha Captions Categories Category Category Archive Category Archiving CGIWrap Changing Servers CHMOD Chron Job Clocks Closing Comments...

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With broad platform integration of all the leading open standards, Movable Type has the potential to do much more, given additional expertise and knowledge on the user's part.

This chapters covers some of the more advanced features in addition to providing a starting point for more advanced topics not covered in this publication.

Architectural Overview

Movable Type is written in a highly modular Perl object-oriented style with an open code base (it's not open source -- an important distinction) that makes the browser-based tool quite flexible and easily modifiable, allowing it to adapt to any number of...

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1.1 (2001.10.22)

• Made <$MTDate$> work as a ``system date'', or the current date/time at which the page is being rebuilt. • Added Pragma: no-cache header to keep Opera from caching pages. (Jay) • Changed default templates to use iso-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoding instead of utf-8. • Added Blog Configuration option for the number of words in an auto-generated excerpt. • Added comment previewing, using the new Comment Preview template. Default templates now ship with comment previewing enabled, and the comments links on the main index...

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Introduction

This article explains how you can customize the user interface of the Movable Type application. This is a powerful area of functionality that's easy to get started with and almost unlimited in its potential.

Some key points we'll cover: • How to create custom application templates for Movable Type's interface • The benefits of using application templates • Ideas for how to use application templates with your plugins or workflow • Links to some example application templates, to see what's possible and to inspire your own

Customizing the Movable Type user interface

To understand the potential of customizing your Movable Type interface, you'll need a little bit of background....

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Question

How do I change the information on my account, such as my email address or password?

Answer

Changes to your account information must be made in your TypeKey Profile. Log into your TypeKey account and make your changes there; then, the next time you log into Your Account, you must say YES to "Share your email address?" so that it will update your account with us.

You can change your email address, password, and public name, but your username cannot be changed.

Note that if you change your email address, you will need to confirm...

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EmailReplyTo

A value of true (1) enables use of the Reply-To email header for notification emails. This will prevent MT from using the commenter's email address as the from address and will put it in the reply-to header instead.

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Question

A list of all known issues in the latest version of Movable Type. Please be sure to review this list before using the product or opening a support ticket.

Answer

As of Version 3.16, released April 18, 2005 • Configuration • A new application method ("app_path") prevents the login cookie from being set when Movable Type is installed in the root folder, rather than a subfolder. See Keep getting login screen for the solution. • Archives • It is impossible to produce files with no file extension by using the File extension for archive...

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Question

Can I add additional logins to my account for others to open help tickets on my behalf, or on behalf of my organization?

Answer

Currently, we only allow one login for each account in the system. In order for others to have access to the Help System through your account, you would need to provide your login information to them. (Please note that the sharing of a login account merely to avoid purchasing multiple supported licenses is not permitted.)

If, in the future, you would like to remove access for this person, you could then change...

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Version 3.15 fixes a vulnerability in the mail sending packages for all Movable Type versions in which the user has enabled comment notifications. This vulnerability allows a malicious user to send email through the application to any number of arbitrary users.

All Movable Type users should install this update.

If you already purchased Movable Type, or downloaded the free version, you’ll be able to download the new release for free from your Movable Type account.

For those users who don't want to do a full upgrade just yet, we are also making this fix available in the form of a plugin: zip (1K) or tar/gz (1K) archive. This plugin is compatible with all 3.x versions...

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For a change of pace, a new version of MT-Notifier is available. I figured everyone was tired of new versions of MT-Approval. In any case, if you're paying close attention, you'll notice that I didn't mention anything about version 2.3.4. That's because it was done for all of a few hours before a bug reared its head, requiring the updates in 2.3.5.

New in version 2.3.4 is a logging feature. This logging feature isn't terribly complex, but it will write some information to the Movable Type activity log during most subscription actions. There are a few that don't log, simply because they don't go through the same subscription process that most of them do. But for the vast majority,...

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