Title: wp-mail.php
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# do_action( ‘wp-mail.php’ )

## In this article

 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp-mail-php/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp-mail-php/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires to allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp-mail-php/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( 'wp-mail.php' ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.ValidHookName.UseUnderscores
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-mail.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-mail.php#L29)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-mail.php#L29-L29)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp-mail-php/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [2.9.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.9.0/) | Introduced. |

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