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I spend all day writing code so it is not unnatural that I blog about it too. I know drupal has code tags but they still end up changing < and > and most code is full of those. There seems to be loads of solutions but many of them have problems - use of code, pre and xmp tags (not all browsers do the same thing with xmp), substituting &#60; etc for < (too annoying, I wan to just paste my code in). Ginally I found the GeSHI filter and although it is not perfect it works better (by far) than any of the other solutions I've found.

Ok, I'm new to drupal but I set up an email action to email me and associated it with a new comment. Then I added a comment as someone else and no email arrived. Then I found Using Drupal's email address in the mail.inc main function with -f which seemed to suggest the from address must be set if you are on fasthosts. Anyway the patch provided to mail.inc worked just fine. I include it here, partly as a reminder to me that I made this change: