wp-includes/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php:2850Assemble message headers.
string public function createHeader() { $result = ''; $result .= $this->headerLine( 'Date', self::sanitiseDate($this->MessageDate) ); //The To header is created automatically by mail(), so needs to be omitted here if ('mail' !== $this->Mailer) { if ($this->SingleTo) { foreach ($this->to as $toaddr) { $this->SingleToArray[] = $this->addrFormat($toaddr); } } elseif (count($this->to) > 0) { $result .= $this->addrAppend('To', $this->to); } elseif (count($this->cc) === 0) { $result .= $this->headerLine('To', 'undisclosed-recipients:;'); } } $result .= $this->addrAppend('From', [[trim($this->From), $this->FromName]]); //sendmail and mail() extract Cc from the header before sending if (count($this->cc) > 0) { $result .= $this->addrAppend('Cc', $this->cc); } //sendmail and mail() extract Bcc from the header before sending if ( ( 'sendmail' === $this->Mailer || 'qmail' === $this->Mailer || 'mail' === $this->Mailer ) && count($this->bcc) > 0 ) { $result .= $this->addrAppend('Bcc', $this->bcc); } if (count($this->ReplyTo) > 0) { $result .= $this->addrAppend('Reply-To', $this->ReplyTo); } //mail() sets the subject itself if ('mail' !== $this->Mailer) { $result .= $this->headerLine('Subject', $this->encodeHeader($this->secureHeader($this->Subject))); } //Only allow a custom message ID if it conforms to RFC 5322 section 3.6.4 //https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.6.4 if ( '' !== $this->MessageID && preg_match( '/^<((([a-z\d!#$%&\'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+(\.[a-z\d!#$%&\'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*)' . '|("(([\x01-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]|[\x21\x23-\x5B\x5D-\x7E])' . '|(\\[\x01-\x09\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x7F]))*"))@(([a-z\d!#$%&\'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+' . '(\.[a-z\d!#$%&\'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*)|(\[(([\x01-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]' . '|[\x21-\x5A\x5E-\x7E])|(\\[\x01-\x09\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x7F]))*\])))>$/Di', $this->MessageID ) ) { $this->lastMessageID = $this->MessageID; } else { $this->lastMessageID = sprintf('<%s@%s>', $this->uniqueid, $this->serverHostname()); } $result .= $this->headerLine('Message-ID', $this->lastMessageID); if (null !== $this->Priority) { $result .= $this->headerLine('X-Priority', $this->Priority); } if ('' === $this->XMailer) { //Empty string for default X-Mailer header $result .= $this->headerLine( 'X-Mailer', 'PHPMailer ' . self::VERSION . ' (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)' ); } elseif (is_string($this->XMailer) && trim($this->XMailer) !== '') { //Some string $result .= $this->headerLine('X-Mailer', $this->secureHeader(trim($this->XMailer))); } //Other values result in no X-Mailer header if ('' !== $this->ConfirmReadingTo) {Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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