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# ziation

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [New User Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-user-registration-2-2/)
 *  Thread Starter [ziation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziation/)
 * (@ziation)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-user-registration-2-2/#post-988137)
 * Two problems existed here:
 * 1. The wordpress devs have hard coded the default admin email account to be ‘
   wordpress@yoursite.com’ in two separate locations in pluggable.php. This seems
   to have been known except by me.
 * 2. The second (and worse issue IMO) is that the phpmailer app was choosing to
   use the standard php mail() function instead of the smtp or other options and
   this function uses the user name of the web server process and the server’s host
   name as the domain name for the senders email address so you will get something
   like [www-data@localhost.localdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziation/replies/www-data@localhost.localdomain?output_format=md).
 * To fix both these I simply changed the hard coded default email address to what
   I wanted in pluggable.php and also changed the ‘sendmail_path’ php.ini attribute
   to include the ‘-f user@domain’ option to force the sender email I wanted to 
   use. This solution of course does not scale because all php apps I run in any
   web site on my server will now be send email from this email address (not good).
 * I can’t believe this is the defacto standard for sending email using php web 
   apps.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [site hacked – internetcountercheck.com/?click#95609](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-hacked-internetcountercheckcomclick95609/)
 *  [ziation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziation/)
 * (@ziation)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-hacked-internetcountercheckcomclick95609/#post-988664)
 * Open source has nothing to do with secure software. Anyone who suggests it does
   has no clue what they are talking about. Security through obscurity is not an
   approved method and should never be relied upon. Look at Windows and Internet
   Explorer, they are closed source and are the most hacked pieces of software around.
 * You should leave your host for ignorance alone.
 *   Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
   
   In reply to: [Popularity Contest type plugin for 2.7](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-type-plugin-for-27/)
 *  [ziation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziation/)
 * (@ziation)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-type-plugin-for-27/#post-974380)
 * This does not work in 2.7.1.
 * Recently Popular
 *  Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_recently_popular() in /path/to/site/
   htdocs/wp-content/plugins/recently-popular/recently_popular_widget.php on line
   94

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