Change email for update notification

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1. The setting you are looking for is found in “Settings”=>”General”=>”E-Mail Adress”.

   All the Emails WordPress or Plugins send out are sent to the admin_mail, which is returned by get_option( 'admin_mail' ), and this Emailadress is not always connected to a user.

   If you first install WordPress, the first user created gets the role administrator, and the same Emailadress is used for this setting, but can be changed afterwards.

   This actually makes a lot of sense, as a site could have a few administrators (or none, to be picky). Not everybody needs to get this information, as well as someone should get it, even if a site does not have an administrator registered in the database.

   This is the reason for the two distinctive fields/settings.

2. You might like to check out this plugin which allows you to change where the email goes:

   background-update-notification-email-address

3. You can use auto_core_update_email filter to change the default admin email.

   add_filter( 'auto_core_update_email', function($email){
     $email['to'] = 'updateWP@example.com'; // Override email address
     return $email;  
   });
   

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