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Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Ticket #60420, comment 35


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12/03/2025 03:47:21 PM (6 weeks ago)
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  • Ticket #60420, comment 35

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    11As someone who runs a fair number of WordPress installations across multiple organisations, I continually run into this problem. I do think this really has to be addressed.
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    3 Mail handling is nothing like it was 20 years ago when https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3214 was created. No credible mail system will now just blindly accept a randomised webmaster@[domain] address without the relevant DNS set up for it.
     3Mail deliverability security is nothing like it was 20 years ago when https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3214 was created. No credible mail system will now just blindly accept a randomised webmaster@[domain] address without the relevant DNS set up for it.
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    55I have plenty of installations whose domain does not have an associated MX record, and will not have for security as we do not want to be processing incoming e-mail. Instead, we want to be able to set a general address used by the server administrator who is responsible for security, since it is they who are responsible for patching etc and so need to see notifications.