Why do email notifications of my posts show as from a different WordPress user?

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  deacongill · Member · Jun 11, 2014 at 12:36 pm

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  Why do the email notifications of my posts show as from a different WordPress user?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jun 13, 2014 at 1:53 am

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  How many username accounts do you have?

  Exactly which one registered the blog that has the posts you refer to above?

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  deacongill · Member · Jun 13, 2014 at 3:58 pm

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  I have only 2 username accounts, but every email shows as coming from blogmate Malcolm Guite http://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/

  I have checked all the settings I can think of but can’t work out how to remove his name. I see I have just received an email notification of a post from another wordpress blogmate http://thehumanpicture.wordpress.com – and that notification also shows as if it comes from Malcolm Guite.

  Help!

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  5hirish · Member · Jun 13, 2014 at 4:17 pm

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  Have you tried changing that users role ? May be that could help. Know more about an user’s role here.

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  deacongill · Member · Jun 13, 2014 at 6:03 pm

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  He doesn’t have a role on any of my blogs. He doesn’t subscribe to any of them. I subscribe to his – but then I do so for other people’s blogs too, like you do. I don’t get the same problem with their name coming up as the sender of email notifications.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Jun 13, 2014 at 8:32 pm

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  Hello there, Could you tell me where this extraneous email address is showing up in your post notifications? And if this other user’s name displays as a link, what happens when you click on it?

  If you could even take a screenshot of one of these notifications, it would help me troubleshoot the problem. If you need, here is a guide to making screenshots:

  en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/

  Just upload the image to your Media Library and let me know when there’s something I should take a look at.
  Thanks so much!

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  deacongill · Member · Jun 14, 2014 at 10:37 am

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  Thanks for this. His name comes up in my email account, not in my wordpress account. So I get an email notification that somebody has posted a comment on my site, or somebody else has put up a new post on their site – but they all come from Malcolm Guite.

  I have now unfollowed his blog and I’ll see if that solves the problem. I’ll then re-follow his blog and see if the same situation occurs. If it does I’ll get in touch again.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Jun 14, 2014 at 4:04 pm

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  Hi there. Thank you so much for the additional details. Please let me know how that testing goes.