[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60420: Default sender address

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#60420: Default sender address
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 Reporter:  thinlinecz       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Mail             |     Version:  1.5.1.2
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by knutsp):

 Replying to [comment:5 SirLouen]:
 > Could Admin Email be a better option? Its more visual and definitely
 feels much more intuitive. Maybe we could draft a new proposal in a new
 ticket stating all the reasons of why this should be the way to go. I'm
 not 100% against this.
 >
 > There is only one massive problem: Backwards compatibility. In an era
 where WP is the 40% of the internet, potentially thousands if not millions
 of servers are already working with default behaviour. If we update the
 version changing this, there could be massive potential email breakages in
 multiple sites. For this reason, I'm 99.999% certain that this proposal
 will be rejected.

 There are ways to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, but if admin
 email was to be used as From, the default would have to depend on intital
 database version, which I guess is far from ideal for documentation,
 learning WP and for support. Therefore I don't like that, except as a
 default for a new user facing option. In this case, given the increased
 strictness and compelxity sending emails that will not be rejected or
 simply flagged as spam, this could be acceptable.

 To make a new option easier to set properly, a check could be made that
 it, when changed, exists using SMTP, and emit a warning if it fails.
 And/or immediately send a test message to the current user_email. This
 could also be a Site Health test. The Site Health Tools plugin has a
 manual email sending check that could be included in core.

 When I'm asked to help a site owner or admin, the most common reasons is
 1) that they have lost their password and does not receive reset email, or
 2) that they have a fatal error and no way to get in and fix it. When
 asked, many have never ever received any email from their WordPress
 installation and have given up finding out how to make it work. The
 simplest to fix is the lack of Sender header, a thing some MTAs are strict
 about, some not, but very often there are several other problems.

 We need to identify all challenges non-expert users face when installing
 and maintaining WordPress in configuring mail sending that will work,
 since WordPress depend on it for so many features. Then identfy which and
 how to do the most common and simplest checks that MTAs will do, before
 doing an end-to-end test (send a message). The goal should be that setting
 up email sending natively from the web server (maildrop through PHPMailer)
 become easier that setting up SMTP, a task some also have trouble with,
 besides requiring a plugin.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60420#comment:6>
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