Change Comment Notification email address

I think you’ll have to manually edit the ‘admin_email’ row in the wp_options table.

After stumbling in wordpress for so long, I found the answer whic I was looking for as well.

Login as any admin (if you have multiple admins and go to the “dashboard.” Once in the dashboard, click on the “users” tab on the right side. Next, click on the username that you want to change. Scroll down to “contact info.” There you should see an email address listed. Change that email address to the one you want and it will solve your problem. If you do a test with the new email address, it does take up to 5 minutes to get the test email.

But what if I want to “outsource” comment administration – have comment notification go to a another email address but still have the admin email set as mine.

I want the editors to a blog to get comment notifications.

I have wordpress install on my website at my hosting company. I changed the E-mail for the admin account and the email still comes to me. Does something have to be restarted?

Here’s the real answer.

Edit this file: /includes/class-phpmailer.php

Go to line 75 (2.7.1) and edit what is inside the quotes.

It may say something like “localhost” or something.

And on line 88, put your email again inside the empty quotes. This is the reply address you want to use.

When I found this solution, I got tired of looking at the code, so I’m not sure if only one of those edits is needed or actually both. But when it worked, I stopped.

I know this will help someone.

I tried this. It didn’t work for me. Still searching for the solution.

I’m having the same trouble. Comment notification is going to the email that was given when the account was set up. I’ve tried updating the address on Settings / General, as well as changing the address for the administrator account. Frustrating.

I did what Scribu suggested, manually changing the admin email in the PHP Database. I had originally setup the admin email as my own, but later transferred it in WordPress’s Users Panel to my clients. However, I guess it didn’t change it in the database? That’s annoying.

I had trouble understanding what was posted here.
Allow me to share the rewording that I understood, for those who are dense like me:
go to https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options.php, and edit “admin_email”

This worked for me, although it seems that some have already done this and are still having the problem.

Hey folks …

I’m having the same problem and it’s terribly frustrating! I have changed my email address in the Settings->General page as well as on my own User (Admin) contact information. However this change, while showing up on the screen, has not actually changed. I have had an email successfully sent to that account for comment notifications, change of email address or anything else.

I have attempted to clear the cache, disable plugins and even attempted the manual code changes suggested by others, but nothing seems to be working.

HELP! Please! I’m stuck and really need to change the address so that my server will allow outgoing emails.

Nevermind folks. Contacted my server and they did some fiddling on their end and it seems to be working now.

Strange mysteries.

the same problem as all the people here.
I get notifications and messages from “[email protected]” when I want another email “[email protected]”.
I searched at the db, I searched this “class-phpmailer.php” but do not exist in the 2.8.2 version…
Any ideas ?

Bernard

sorry, i found the class-phpmailer.php !!!!!
made the modifications as following :

from :
var $Sender = ”;

changed to :

var $Sender = ‘[email protected]’; put the real adress you want.
and I STILL get the message :

From: WordPress <[email protected]> !!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer (phpmailer.sourceforge.net) [version 2.0.4]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”UTF-8″

any idea where to change this ?
Thanks
B

If you want to change the default sender used by WordPress if it cannot determine a proper sender name, you have to look in the file wp-includes/pluggable.php, lines 352 and 369 (at least in version 2.8.2):

line 352:
$from_name = 'putyournamehere';
line 369:
$from_email = 'putyournamehere@' . $sitename;

As this means changing a WordPress standard file, this may be overwritten when you upgrade WordPress.

I tried this. It didn’t work for me. Still searching for the solution.
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