Correct default “from” address so email not flagged as spoofed
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By default, your emails are sent “from” the administrative address of the website. Please change them to send from an address in the domain instead, e.g. “[email protected]” — like the notifications generated by WordPress do.
There are two reasons for this: first, the email address associated with the administrative login is private information and should not be exposed by some random person filling out a form on the site.
Second, some hosting providers — Dreamhost for instance — refuse to send mail if the “from” address is from a different domain than the website that generates it. This is probably why a lot of people are reporting that the notices are not getting sent out — they’re being blocked by the sender because it looks like they are “spoofed”.
Please use a default value for this field that respects the website owner’s privacy and is most likely to actually work “out of the box”.
Thanks
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