[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:63 dmsnell]:
 >
 > > All of these problems boil down to one thing: the lack of a text box
 to type in a usable address in a manner that is consistent with the design
 of WP, the internet, and hosting environments.
 >
 > This sounds like a good thing to add in a plugin as
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60420#comment:16 @desrosj]
 suggested eight months ago. It’s far easier to discuss something that
 exists and is in use than a confusing back-and-forth of hypotheticals.
 Hosts can install the plugin and test it and provide feedback. Anyone with
 email troubles can install it.

 You are suggesting that we leave the core WP functionality broken, and
 provide a way for administrators to work around it once they discover the
 breakage. But that's the situation everyone is already complaining about.
 Users/admins should not have to lose important emails or deal with
 customer complaints as step zero towards solving this problem.

 The broken functionality is in WP core, and it is broken because of a line
 of code in WP core. It should be fixed in WP core, and the solution is
 trivial.

 > As has been brought up by others in this ticket, even adding the text
 box presents coordination problems when hosts and site admins have
 different understandings of what //should// be set as the sender address.

 "What if someone types the wrong thing in the box???" is not a serious
 criticism of an option that is currently hard-coded to the wrong value.

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