Root@localhost cannot be changed to anything else

Hi Callum I’ve got a very weird problem with my WordPress. For some unknown reason no configuration change is able to modify the sender email address from root@localhost and this triggers bool(false). Do you have any idea to what can cause such an odd behavior? Thanks a million.

Test Message Sent
The result was:
bool(false)
The full debugging output is shown below:
object(PHPMailer)#819 (75) {
[“Version”]=>
string(6) “5.2.14”
[“Priority”]=>
NULL
[“CharSet”]=>
string(10) “iso-8859-1”
[“ContentType”]=>
string(10) “text/plain”
[“Encoding”]=>
string(4) “8bit”
[“ErrorInfo”]=>
string(0) “”
[“From”]=>
string(14) “root@localhost”
[“FromName”]=>
string(9) “Root User”
[“Sender”]=>
string(0) “”
[“ReturnPath”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Subject”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Body”]=>
string(0) “”
[“AltBody”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Ical”]=>
string(0) “”
[“MIMEBody”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“MIMEHeader”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“mailHeader”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“WordWrap”]=>
int(0)
[“Mailer”]=>
string(4) “mail”
[“Sendmail”]=>
string(18) “/usr/sbin/sendmail”
[“UseSendmailOptions”]=>
bool(true)
[“PluginDir”]=>
string(0) “”
[“ConfirmReadingTo”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Hostname”]=>
string(0) “”
[“MessageID”]=>
string(0) “”
[“MessageDate”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Host”]=>
string(9) “localhost”
[“Port”]=>
int(25)
[“Helo”]=>
string(0) “”
[“SMTPSecure”]=>
string(0) “”
[“SMTPAutoTLS”]=>
bool(true)
[“SMTPAuth”]=>
bool(false)
[“SMTPOptions”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“Username”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Password”]=>
string(0) “”
[“AuthType”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Realm”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Workstation”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Timeout”]=>
int(300)
[“SMTPDebug”]=>
bool(true)
[“Debugoutput”]=>
string(4) “echo”
[“SMTPKeepAlive”]=>
bool(false)
[“SingleTo”]=>
bool(false)
[“SingleToArray”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“do_verp”]=>
bool(false)
[“AllowEmpty”]=>
bool(false)
[“LE”]=>
string(1) “
“
[“DKIM_selector”]=>
string(0) “”
[“DKIM_identity”]=>
string(0) “”
[“DKIM_passphrase”]=>
string(0) “”
[“DKIM_domain”]=>
string(0) “”
[“DKIM_private”]=>
string(0) “”
[“action_function”]=>
string(0) “”
[“XMailer”]=>
string(0) “”
[“smtp”:protected]=>
NULL
[“to”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“cc”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“bcc”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“ReplyTo”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“all_recipients”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“RecipientsQueue”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“ReplyToQueue”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“attachment”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“CustomHeader”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“lastMessageID”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“message_type”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“boundary”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“language”:protected]=>
array(0) {
}
[“error_count”:protected]=>
int(0)
[“sign_cert_file”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“sign_key_file”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“sign_extracerts_file”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“sign_key_pass”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
[“exceptions”:protected]=>
bool(true)
[“uniqueid”:protected]=>
string(0) “”
}
The SMTP debugging output is shown below:

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