Admin notifications for more than 1 email

[novasource]

Please allow admin notifications to go to more than 1 email address. It could be as simple as allowing a comma-separated list.

Better yet, allow sending admin notifications to all people in the administrators role.

[cnorris23]

This has already been attempted before in #3969, and it was closed as won't fix. Mark Jaquith said it would be a big patch (and it would), and suggested that one set up an email address that forwards to all the admins (see comment 4). That being said, making the admin email filterable, should be a fairly easy/small patch, and would allow you to write a plugin to create this functionality.

[nacin]

If anything we'd eventually refactor the admin email aspect in another direction and perhaps tie it to an account (or accounts). This is a source of confusion often. Closing as wontfix as had previously been done.

[westi]

I think we should re-consider this.

Ideally the option should go and we should send notifications to people based on caps/roles rather than a seconded hidden email address which might not be up-to-date

[nacin]

This ticket proposed a comma-separated list. I closed this due to a few other tickets proposing the opposite direction (which is what you're suggesting be considered), such as an owner role or some other rework that moves away from the option and toward users. Problem is, now I can't find a ticket now.

[RanYanivHartstein]

Replying to nacin:

This ticket proposed a comma-separated list. I closed this due to a few other tickets proposing the opposite direction (which is what you're suggesting be considered), such as an owner role or some other rework that moves away from the option and toward users. Problem is, now I can't find a ticket now.

I reopened this as a new ticket in #16481

[jane]

Replying to RanYanivHartstein:

I reopened this as a new ticket in #16481

Seems like 16481 is just asking to remove the email on General Settings, not to create a new 'owner' role.

[digabyte]

FOUR. YEARS. AGO.

For more than four years people have been asking for this... many, many people. How difficult can it be to allow a comma separated list for admin notification in the general settings?

Forcing a user to setup a dedicated admin e-mail account outside of WP with filters and forwarding is ridiculous when a simply comma separated list is all it takes to address the issue.

The first response to the original post states: "Mark Jaquith said it would be a big patch (and it would)" How in the world is a comma separated list a big patch? Perhaps the secondary suggestion of allowing all admins to receive admin notification is a big patch, but if so many people are requesting this functionality, isn't it just lazy to say "that's a big patch?"

I'm not necessarily advocating admin notification for all admins (though, that *does* seem to make perfect sense), but simply adding comma separated list functionality to admin notification should be addressed in the WP core; it should have been addressed years ago.

[supersuphot]

Wish to have this feature too

[mordauk]

I do really like the idea of eventually moving away from a predefined email option, but what's the harm in allowing a comma delineated list of addresses? Seems the only thing we'd have to do is modify the way the option is sanitized so as to not strip out commans when multiple email addresses are detected.

[mordauk]

I will happily write a patch for this if we can consider it again.

[rmccue]

Replying to mordauk:

Seems the only thing we'd have to do is modify the way the option is sanitized so as to not strip out commans when multiple email addresses are detected.

FWIW, this is pretty easy: array_filter( explode( ',', $email ), 'is_email' )

[mordauk]

Replying to rmccue:

Replying to mordauk:

Seems the only thing we'd have to do is modify the way the option is sanitized so as to not strip out commans when multiple email addresses are detected.

FWIW, this is pretty easy: array_filter( explode( ',', $email ), 'is_email' )

Yes. Why are we not allowing this? I fully understand providing a better UI for multiple emails is much more involved, but I haven't seen a reason why we can't support a comma separated list?

[nacin]

Anyone using get_option( 'admin_email' ) and expecting a single email, versus a comma-separated list or an array, would cause breakage. Hence the desire to go bigger or not do anything at all.

[mordauk]

Replying to nacin:

Anyone using get_option( 'admin_email' ) and expecting a single email, versus a comma-separated list or an array, would cause breakage. Hence the desire to go bigger or not do anything at all.

Ah, hadn't thought of that.

[shiroamada]

5 years.... any plugin to resolve it? I need multiple admin email to received notification

[nmarks]

Replying to shiroamada:

5 years.... any plugin to resolve it? I need multiple admin email to received notification

​https://wordpress.org/plugins/cc-admin-emails/

[wbdesigner]

Why not do a cc in wordpress that way the emails come from one address but multiple admins can get a notification.
The plugin cc admin emails is a great idea. I'm having trouble making it work but the idea is perfect.
​http://wordpress.org/plugins/cc-admin-emails/

[dshanske]

I would suggest moving the notification function into the user settings by adding a per administrator role setting. The admin_email setting would remain a single email for backward compatibility.

[tripflex]

Whenever I wanted to do something like this it was as easy as filtering wp_mail, checking if to was set to the same thing as the value in admin_email and then adding any additional ones I want, and returning back to wp_mail

Only thing missing would be check for admin email if to is an array, but I have yet to see a case of that where the plugin/theme didn't have its own method of adding additional emails.

I'm going to leave this here but I just realized that this only checks the TO and has no way to tell if it's actually an admin email ... so say the admin_email is the same as your user account, you request password reset ... it will send to those additional emails as well --- sorry about that

add_filter( 'wp_mail', 'my_custom_to_admin_emails' );

/**
* Filter WP_Mail Function to Add Multiple Admin Emails
*
*
*
* @param array $args A compacted array of wp_mail() arguments, including the "to" email,
*                    subject, message, headers, and attachments values.
*
* @return array
*/
function my_custom_to_admin_emails( $args ) {

    // This assumes that admin emails are sent with only the admin email
    // used in the to argument.
    if( is_array( $args['to'] ) ) return $args;

    $admin_email = get_option( 'admin_email' );

    // Check if admin email is in string, as plugins/themes could have changed format (ie. Administrator <admin@domain.com> )
    if( strpos( $args['to'], $admin_email ) !== FALSE ){

        /**
        * Set the to key value to an array of emails, including original admin email
        *
        * All email addresses supplied to wp_mail() as the $to parameter must comply with RFC 2822. Some valid examples:
        * user@example.com
        * User <user@example.com>
        */
        $args['to'] = array( $args['to'], 'user@example.com', 'User <user@example.com>' );
    }

    return $args;
}

Just thought I would add this here in case others come looking for other solutions.

[SergeyBiryukov]

#49079 was marked as a duplicate.

[MarjoriesDaughter]

Is this issue dead or is there somewhere else to look for updates?

[desrosj]

Replying to nacin:

Anyone using get_option( 'admin_email' ) and expecting a single email, versus a comma-separated list or an array, would cause breakage. Hence the desire to go bigger or not do anything at all.

I'm going to re-close this as wontfix.

The comment above is really my main apprehension about this. But I also agree that notifications overall should be refactored should this be changed.

There is a contributor group and feature project exploring this (see ​GitHub and ​Making WordPress Core posts). If you feel strongly about this, I suggest becoming involved with that group and helping to push that initiative forward.

I also did a quick search of the plugin directory and only found a couple of plugins addressing this problem with very few active installs:

• ​Multiple Admin Email Addresses (2k+ installs).
• ​Brozzme Multiple Admin Emails (200+ installs)
• ​WC Multiple Email Recipients (6k+ installs) - more WooCommerce focused, but seems to be in the same wavelength.

The lack of activity on this ticket over the last 7 years and the low number of installs for these plugins is not a strong argument for making this specific change.