WP Mail From II

Description

This plugin allows you to set the email address and name used for emails sent by WordPress by setting the From: header.

It is an updated and fully re-worked version of the WP Mail From plugin by Tristan Aston and now works with the latest versions of WordPress.

• Adds a “Mail From” section in the “Settings” menu.
• The plugin uses the filter hooks wp_mail_from and wp_mail_from_name.
• The priority for the hooks is set to 1 to allow for other plugins that may hook these with the default priority of 10 to override this plugin.

Danish translation by Frederik Svarre (www.fslab.dk)

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Installation

Either install via the WordPress admin plugin installer or…

1. Unzip wp-mailfrom-ii.zip in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, making sure the folder is called wp-mailfrom-ii.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Visit the admin settings page Settings > Mail From and save your preferred name and email address.

Upgrading from the old WP Mail From plugin

This version is pretty much a complete re-write, fixes loads of bugs and works with the most recent versions of WordPress.

If upgrading from the WP Mail From plugin your current name an email settings should be copied across but please check.
To upgrade simply activate this plugin then deactivate the old WP Mail From plugin.

Option naming conventions have changed in this version of the plugin.
If you accessed either of the options directly for any reason you will need to re-factor you code as support for the old options will be removed in a future version.

The old options used to be retrieved as follows:

get_option( 'site_mail_from_name' );
get_option( 'site_mail_from_email' );

You should now use:

get_option( 'wp_mailfrom_ii_name' );
get_option( 'wp_mailfrom_ii_email' );

FAQ

Why does the From address still show as the default or show up as ‘sent on behalf of’ the default address?

Possibly your mail server has added a Sender: header or is configured to always set the envelope sender to the user calling it.

Why are emails not being sent?

Some hosts may refuse to relay mail from an unknown domain. See https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/5007 for more details.

Reviews

Lets me update Email From

Fahrenhe1t January 3, 2017

I have a Wordpress installation on a local network, sending emails through sSMTP. The mail relay does not allow default “From” addresses to have “wordpress@home” with no “.com.” The plugin allows me to change the email address to be valid, and allows mails to go through.

The only one that works on WP Engine so far

noelsaw November 18, 2016

Great plugin. This is the only 1 out 4 (found here on WP.org repo) that would work in one of WP Engine’s environment (one of of their different infrastructure providers).

Works in 4.5.3, keeps emails professional

John.Hicks September 3, 2016

The plugin worked for me, using 4.5.3. If you’re here, you might be having issues with your hosting account sending emails as something like (BlueHost): [email protected] This is a problem. 1) It doesn’t look professional, 2) it hands out your username! This plugin helps you catch any plugins using [email protected], making it more of a one-stop solution, rather than digging through each of your plugin’s settings to possibly find a solution.

Solved my problem

Knopenman September 3, 2016

E-mail confirmation of contact form bounced, but this plugin solved the problem

Simple and effective

Marco Chiesi September 3, 2016

It just does what it is supposed to do. Thanks. P.S. I think these settings should part of WordPress core.

Works

gebiert September 3, 2016

Not much to say here: the plugin works as expected.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.0

• Add default values as placeholders in admin fields.
• New method of getting sitename in WordPress 5.5+

1.2

• Make admin field labels clickable. Props Viktor Szépe.
• Remove deprecated screen_icon().

1.1.1

• Added Hungarian translation. Props Viktor Szépe.
• Bump WordPress requirements.

1.1

• Added options to override the default WordPress email address and admin email address.
• Added ‘wp_mailfrom_ii_default_from’ filter so you can add compatibility if the pluggable wp_mail() function is altered to use a different default email address.
• Delete plugin options when uninstalled.
• Reworked as a singleton class.
• Remove filter support for original WP MailFrom plugin.

1.0.2

• Only set email address and name if overwriting the default WordPress values.

1.0.1

• Correctly style “save settings” button.

1.0

• Pretty much re-coded from scratch – now based around a core WP_MailFrom_II class.
• Uses the WordPress Settings API.
• Stores name and email as wp_mailfrom_ii_name and wp_mailfrom_ii_email options. Upgrade support is provided for old options.