[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):

 This getting far to complicated and stretching beyond what WordPress core
 can do.

 The admin email is for the recipient only, the "To" header address. This
 could be any domain. To me, any talk about using this as "From" is
 confusing and won't work. If someone want that, they must use SMTP.

 So far I can only support a new UI option to set the ''local'' part,
 leaving the site domain as the sender domain.

 If your web host is not email host, then the SPF record must account for
 that.

 What I want as a first step is only:

 1. Let the novice user set up an ''existsing'' email address in the web
 domain, as "From", guided with a check that it exists on the web hosting
 server, otherwise, advised to create it and ensure the web host is an
 authorized email sender for the domain. Maybe contact host on how to do
 it. Default: wordpress@

 2. All other cases: Advice th use of an SMTP plugin. Then SPF/DKIM/DMARC
 is not an issue.

 @michael.orlitzky:
 > a huge number of very popular plugins are already using the admin
 address as the "From" address (because there's no better option!)

 What plugin(s)? They are using SMTP?

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