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#42717 phpmailer.php deprecated

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Environment Information

WordPress version
6.9.1
PHP version
8.3.30
Akeeba Backup version
9.1.1

Latest post by LukeDouglas on Friday, 13 February 2026 20:14 CST

LukeDouglas

AkeebaBackup is working fine.  However, Query Monitor has displayed this message:

Message:
File class-phpmailer.php is deprecated since version 5.5.0! Use wp-includes/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php instead. The PHPMailer class has been moved to wp-includes/PHPMailer subdirectory and now uses the PHPMailer\PHPMailer namespace.

Caller:

AkeebaBackupWP::loadAkeebaBackupContainer()
wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/helpers/AkeebaBackupWP.php:891

AkeebaBackupWP::loadAppConfig()
wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/helpers/AkeebaBackupWP.php:1382

AkeebaBackupWP::loadIntegratedUpdater()
wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/helpers/AkeebaBackupWP.php:168

 

Component:

Plugin: akeebabackupwp

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Please refer to my reply to this ticket: https://www.akeeba.com/support/akeeba-backup-wordpress/42617-class-phpmailer-php-1.html 

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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LukeDouglas

Nicholas,

I was unaware of the previous post.  Thanks for the link.  I have a fuller understanding and will ignore the warning.

Luke

 

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