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avatar bembelimen
bembelimen
9 Jan 2026

Summary of Changes

The "send copy to sender" in Joomla! is a gateway for spamproblems. It's disabled by default for some time now, so it's now time to remove it.

Testing Instructions

Create a contact

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

There is the option to activate the checkbox for send copy to sender

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

No option at all

Link to documentations

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  • Documentation link for docs.joomla.org:

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  • No documentation changes for manual.joomla.org needed

avatar bembelimen bembelimen - open - 9 Jan 2026
avatar bembelimen bembelimen - change - 9 Jan 2026
Status New Pending
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 9 Jan 2026
Category Administration com_contact Front End SQL Installation Postgresql
avatar chmst
chmst - comment - 10 Jan 2026

Deprecate language keys?

avatar ChristineWk ChristineWk - test_item - 10 Jan 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar ChristineWk
ChristineWk - comment - 10 Jan 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 8503df3


This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/46651.

avatar bembelimen
bembelimen - comment - 10 Jan 2026

Deprecate language keys?

Should probably happen in J!6

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 11 Jan 2026

You also need to remove the mail template com_contact.mail.copy from the installation sql and existing sites on update

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