[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60420: Default wordpress at site.com sender address can be problematic

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#60420: Default wordpress at site.com sender address can be problematic
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 Reporter:  thinlinecz       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Mail             |     Version:  1.5.1.2
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close            |     Focuses:
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Comment (by michael.orlitzky):

 Replying to [comment:18 SirLouen]:
 > Replying to [comment:17 michael.orlitzky]
 > > This is the hardest, because we absolutely still need an easily
 configurable "From" address, and all of the plugins that are currently
 using the site admin address as the "From" address are using it wrong.
 >
 > This is what we have already been discussing all the way through. The
 admin email is only meant to be a "To" address, mainly for notification
 purposes regarding the administration level of the site. All inputted
 emails (including other plugins in the ecosystem, like bbPress and
 Buddypress), use any "saved in the DB" email as a To email. For the `From`
 email, the solution was, as I said, using the filter.

 Ok, thanks, at least this gives us a starting point.

 > You argue that the filter is not well documented in the front end, and
 this is what we will be solved via Health Check and the Administration
 docs. These happen to be the classic docs go-to within the administration
 interface. As we already identified, changing this behaviour can provoke a
 backwards compatibility trouble, and setting the admin email as the `From`
 also collides, as I said, with the idea that this email could be mostly
 anything the admin decides (for example, the admin's Gmail account).

 My real argument against the filter would be twofold:

 1. A usable sender address is one of the most basic settings that needs to
 be tweaked -- or at least verified -- on every site. Requiring code to
 change it just means that it will remain incorrect for many people,
 leading to (silently) lost or junked messages.
 2. It's a site-wide setting, so in particular it doesn't belong in a
 theme; upgrading a theme from wordpress.org/themes shouldn't erase the
 setting. Is there an easy way to install filters site-wide? (I don't think
 creating a new custom plugin for each site to change one email address is
 reasonable.)

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