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#40810 closed defect (bug)

wp_mail fails to send email on WP auto update when wp-cron is called directly by php — at Initial Version

Reported by: pessoft's profile pessoft Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.7.5
Component: Mail Keywords: has-patch has-unit-tests
Focuses: administration Cc:

Description

Hi!

On some of our WordPress instances wp-cron.php is called by system cron directly as a parameter to php command ( not via HTTP request ). This is partially to make sure that WP cron is executed regularly and partially to make sure that all tasks in cron will not hit a timeout for HTTP communication on servers and reverse proxies.

In a case when WP triggers auto update during such php execution and wants to send email about success, there is no $_SERVERSERVER_NAME? available and no From: header passed to wp_mail, therefore sender's email is not fully generated and delivery fails:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'phpmailerException' with message 'Invalid address: (setFrom) wordpress@'

There are at least three possible solutions which could generate valid email address and maybe help in more scenarios too:

1) WP auto update fix
As WP update knows what is the site URL of WP during update, it could construct sender's email directly from configuration, pass it as From: header to wp_mail and not need to rely on whether SERVER_NAME is set or not.

2) Local hostname fix
When wp_mail is called and From: header is not present, wp_mail tries to construct the sender's email from SERVER_NAME. In case neither SERVER_NAME is available, wp_mail could try to call function like php_uname or gethostname yet as a last resort for construction of sender's email. This could ( at least to some extent ) help with such wp_mail calls where SERVER_NAME is not available.

3) Sender's email configuration option
By providing possibility to have a default sender's email for WP configured, it would be possible to use such address as sender in wp_mail function and rely on SERVER_NAME only if configuration option would be not set ( or set empty ). Based on history of tickets related to sender's email address, this fix would help many users for which current construction of sender's address is not suitable and work also in backward compatible way.

Do you see any of these options acceptable?

Thanks.

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