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12/05/2025 12:34:51 PM (6 months ago)
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  • Ticket #49687, comment 56

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    1 I should explain that my testing was with a vanilla PHP script (not WordPress) where I simply set the `sendmail_from` configuration directive and executed `mail('me@example.com', 'TEST', 'TEST')`. In this case, the `sendmail_from` configuration was ignored and likely why hosting environments that want to force it to something other than apache@machine_name (or similar) tack the `-f` parameter on to the `sendmail` bin path - since they cannot be sure what clients will actually be running on there.
     1I should explain that my testing was with a vanilla PHP script (not WordPress) where I simply set the `sendmail_from` configuration directive and executed `mail('me@example.com', 'TEST', 'TEST')`. In this case, the `sendmail_from` configuration was ignored and likely why hosting environments that want to force it to something other than `apache@machine_name` (or similar) tack the `-f` parameter on to the `sendmail` bin path - since they cannot be sure what clients will actually be running on there.
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    33PHPMailer has this bit of code (curiously prefixed by a comment citing old PHP workarounds):