masperber
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1 year ago I'm not 100% sure if this is a bug. The site administration email is an option that can be set independently. There could be some cases where a user intentionally sets the site administration email to an email that is not the site owner's or even an administrator user's. If we programatically change the site administration email, then we could in some cases overwrite an intentionally set site administration email.
Perhaps it would be possible to programatically update the site administration email if it is equal to the outgoing owner's email, and leave it if it has been set to a custom email address.
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Quick summary
When the owner of an atomic site changes, usually at a user's request, the admin email stored in the database is unchanged from the original owner.
Steps to reproduce
1: Create a dummy account. If an Automattic employee, you can use a + address. 2: Give yourself enough credits to purchase the business plan for a site. 3: Use any of the known methods to make that site atomic. 4: In the site RC, change the owner from the current account to any other account, including your own primary account. 5: In CLI, type: option get admin_email
What you expected to happen
The admin email should be updated to the new owner, as we would for posts and pages if the option is selected to do so.
What actually happened
The admin email remains that of the original owner.
Context
Discovered when investigating an issue regarding emails sent by a third-party plugin. The plugin was pulling the email address to send to from the admin email in the database, as most WordPress plugins that send out email do. Found in 4413109-zd-woothemes, tested and verified by me.
Operating System
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Browser
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Simple, Atomic or both?
Atomic
Theme-specific issue?
No response
Other notes
No response
Reproducibility
Consistent
Severity
No response
Available workarounds?
Yes, easy to implement
Workaround details
Users can still change this setting in wp-admin/options-general.php. However, since by default Calypso will redirect them away from there and to .com's version of settings > general, they will contact an HE to make that change--or, at least, to ask why their emails are being wrongly redirected.