Language Change b/c break PR-6.1-dev Pending

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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

Please select:

  • Documentation link for docs.joomla.org:

  • No documentation changes for docs.joomla.org needed

  • Pull Request link for manual.joomla.org:

  • 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


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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

avatar bembelimen bembelimen - change - 17 Jan 2026
Labels Added: b/c break PR-6.1-dev
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 17 Jan 2026
Category Administration com_contact Front End SQL Installation Postgresql SQL Administration com_admin Postgresql com_contact Language & Strings Front End Installation
avatar bembelimen bembelimen - change - 17 Jan 2026
Labels Added: Language Change
avatar bembelimen
bembelimen - comment - 17 Jan 2026

Deprecate language keys?

I removed the language strings here, they then need to be deprecated in 6.4 or somewhere before. Thanks

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

Done, thanks

Also thx for @eumel1602 finding an issue as the field was not correctly removed.

avatar eumel1602 eumel1602 - test_item - 17 Jan 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar eumel1602
eumel1602 - comment - 17 Jan 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on b399940

Thank you so much for your work!


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avatar ChristineWk ChristineWk - test_item - 17 Jan 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar ChristineWk
ChristineWk - comment - 17 Jan 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on b399940


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avatar ChrisHoefliger ChrisHoefliger - test_item - 30 Jan 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar ChrisHoefliger
ChrisHoefliger - comment - 30 Jan 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on b399940


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avatar jikubiswal jikubiswal - test_item - 31 Jan 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar jikubiswal
jikubiswal - comment - 31 Jan 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on b399940

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on b399940


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avatar jikubiswal jikubiswal - test_item - 31 Jan 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar jikubiswal
jikubiswal - comment - 31 Jan 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on b399940

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on b399940


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avatar RickR2H RickR2H - change - 31 Jan 2026
Status Pending Ready to Commit
avatar RickR2H
RickR2H - comment - 31 Jan 2026

RTC


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avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Please remove RTC from this as we dont even have a 7.0 branch and it is still a DRAFT and there are outstanding changes to be made

avatar drmenzelit drmenzelit - change - 31 Jan 2026
Status Ready to Commit Pending

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