Title: Comment notification problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment notification problem

 *  [umeshnair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umeshnair/)
 * (@umeshnair)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-notification-problem-2/)
 * Hi,
 * I recently moved from one hosting solution to another successfully, by saving
   the database using phpAdmin, editing the SQL file and restoring it into the new
   server.
 * Everything is working fine, except that the comment notifications are not going
   to the e-mail address I provided in Options->General Options->E-mail address.(
   I provided a gmail address here.) I have turned on comment notification in Options-
   >Discussion->E-mail me whenever.
 * In the old host, comments wer going to the e-mail address I provide, but that
   was an e-mail in the old host. Is there any chance that this info is in some 
   database, but the GUI shows the updated one?
 * Thanks,
 * – Umesh

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-notification-problem-2/#post-356174)
 * Comment notification goes to the email address of the author of a given post,
   not the admin email address.
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 *  Thread Starter [umeshnair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umeshnair/)
 * (@umeshnair)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-notification-problem-2/#post-356312)
 * Thanks, MichaelH. That helped.
 * I figured out what was wrong. The WP database had the user’s e-mail ID as the
   old e-mail ID. Corrected that.
 * Still there was a cached PHP file, which bypassed reading the database, which
   had the e-mail info. Corrected that too.
 * Now, the comment notifications go to my ID.
 * This thread can be closed.
 * Thanks,
 * – U
 *  [dlature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlature/)
 * (@dlature)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-notification-problem-2/#post-356482)
 * where is that in the database?
 * Any chance of wp making it easier to find the settings which wp uses to send 
   emails? I have searched through the database and the files and can find no sign
   of my email server through which I send mails.

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