Caching nor memory have anything to do with email ... I'd check with the hosting company if there are any restrictions to your package mailing feature, as MB suggested.
You can setup the sending "from" either from the admin panel or hard coding it in phpmailer under vendor/phpmailer
If it's not properly being recognized and it is correctly set in admin then it's either a problem introduced by maligun (try installing it again, empty/clear your from field in the plugin, save and uninstall it then go back to the mail server in admin and set and save your preferred from there.
Another thing to do is to check your DB to see if the value is being correctly updated there.