[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42967: New admin email change featuer should be rolled back

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#42967: New admin email change featuer should be rolled back
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 Reporter:  johndeebdd       |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Security         |     Version:  4.9
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Clorith):

 Hi there, and welcome to Trac!

 I'd like to address your concerns here, as I think some of them may be a
 misunderstanding of how WordPress handles the email process.

 Note that I'll skip many sections, because the answers to many of them are
 all covered in the first response.

 The most notable point you make is that WordPress needs access to your
 emails to do anything, which is incorrect.

 WordPress doesn't access your email to send anything, it is sent by the
 server your website is hosted on, and the sender will be automatically set
 as `wordpress@<your-domain.tld>`, unless a plugin is set to modify this.

 You don't need to set up anything for emails to be sent inside WordPress
 it self. For some users, they will have set up a plugin that passes emails
 through an external SMTP server, this is then a deliberate choice and the
 user setting this up should be able to change the settings within that
 plugins interface if it should no longer be correct.


 You are right that if your site can't send emails, it becomes problematic
 to do these changes, but if that's the case one should contact their host
 as it would also prevent other legitimate functionality such as password
 recoveries.


 > This is the only instance where a single site addresses the admin with
 the pronoun "we". When I saw this, my jaw dropped. Who is the "we" that is
 going to email me? Is someone else gathering emails from my privately
 hosted site? The pronoun "we" should not be used here.

 This part can understandably be confusing in some scenarios, I would
 suggest creating a separate ticket to look at finding better wording for
 this.

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