diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 99a2b8cd..c207c748 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 ## Version 5.2.18 (December 24th 2016)
 * **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10033 please update now! Thanks to [Dawid Golunski](https://legalhackers.com).
 * Add ability to extract the SMTP transaction ID from some common SMTP success messages
-* Better checking of sendmail path
 * Minor documentation tweaks
 
 ## Version 5.2.17 (December 9th 2016)
diff --git a/class.phpmailer.php b/class.phpmailer.php
index 34c06f91..18db0638 100644
--- a/class.phpmailer.php
+++ b/class.phpmailer.php
@@ -1365,9 +1365,6 @@ class PHPMailer
      */
     protected function sendmailSend($header, $body)
     {
-        if (!(is_file($this->Sendmail) and is_executable($this->Sendmail))) {
-            throw new phpmailerException($this->lang('execute') . $this->Sendmail, self::STOP_CRITICAL);
-        }
         if (!empty($this->Sender) and $this->validateAddress($this->Sender)) {
             if ($this->Mailer == 'qmail') {
                 $sendmail = sprintf('%s -f%s', escapeshellcmd($this->Sendmail), escapeshellarg($this->Sender));