Title: Changing admin email
Last modified: July 5, 2019

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# Changing admin email

 *  [gcall166](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gcall166/)
 * (@gcall166)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-admin-email-2/)
 * I am trying to change the admin email address to
    [removed] And get this message‘
   There is a pending change of the admin email to [removed]’. But no email is being
   sent by wordpress so that the new address can be verified. Please advise. Thnks
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/).
      Reason: email address removed from public forum
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fchanging-admin-email-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-admin-email-2/#post-11704835)
 * It sounds like your hosting provider has disabled PHP’s `mail()` function, which
   is used by WordPress to send you email notifications, and is also used by contact
   form plugins and more.
 * This is a common safeguard employed by hosting providers when they suspect that
   another customer on the same server is sending spam emails directly from the 
   server.
 * Another alternative is that PHP’s `mail()` function is still active, but spammer
   activity from the server has already caused any email sent from it to be blacklisted.
   This would result in the emails being sent, but never received by any email address
   with basic anti-spam capabilities.
 * You can check this by leaving a comment on your site and checking if you receive
   an email. Another alternative would be to use the [Health Check](https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/)
   plugin and sending yourself a test email from the plugin’s Tools tab to see if
   it works.
 * If you didn’t receive a test email, you could try using an [SMTP plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/smtp/)
   to configure your WordPress site to use your email’s outgoing mail server instead
   of PHP’s `mail()` function.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-admin-email-2/#post-11704835)
 * Status: not resolved

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