diff --git a/ddclient.in b/ddclient.in
index 04c9157..e3a762a 100755
--- a/ddclient.in
+++ b/ddclient.in
@@ -2364,7 +2364,6 @@ sub ynu {
     # Takes the following keyword arguments:
     #   * `msg` (string): The message to log.
     #   * `label` (string): Severity ('DEBUG', 'WARNING', etc.) to prefix each line with.
-    #   * `fh` (file handle): Where to write the log messages.
     #   * `email` (boolean): Whether to include the message in the next email.
     #   * `raw` (boolean): Whether to omit `label` and the contexts (output `msg` as-is).
     #   * `ctx` (optional string): If defined, this is temporarily pushed onto the context stack
@@ -2378,7 +2377,6 @@ sub ynu {
         my %args = (
             msg => '',
             label => '',
-            fh => *STDERR,
             (@_ % 2) ? (msg => pop) : (),
             @_,
         );
@@ -2393,7 +2391,7 @@ sub ynu {
             $buffer =~ s/\n/\n$prefix/g;
         }
         $buffer .= "\n";
-        print({$args{fh}} $buffer);
+        print(STDERR $buffer);
 
         if ($args{email}) {
             $emailbody .= $buffer;
diff --git a/t/logmsg.pl b/t/logmsg.pl
index 334bda1..f91adc0 100644
--- a/t/logmsg.pl
+++ b/t/logmsg.pl
@@ -2,23 +2,6 @@ use Test::More;
 SKIP: { eval { require Test::Warnings; } or skip($@, 1); }
 eval { require 'ddclient'; } or BAIL_OUT($@);
 
-{
-    my $output;
-    open(my $fh, '>', \$output);
-    local *STDERR = $fh;
-    ddclient::logmsg('to STDERR');
-    close($fh);
-    is($output, "to STDERR\n", 'logs to STDERR by default');
-}
-
-{
-    my $output;
-    open(my $fh, '>', \$output);
-    ddclient::logmsg(fh => $fh, 'to file handle');
-    close($fh);
-    is($output, "to file handle\n", 'logs to provided file handle');
-}
-
 my @test_cases = (
     {
         desc => 'adds a newline',
@@ -116,7 +99,10 @@ for my $tc (@test_cases) {
         local $ddclient::emailbody = $tc->{init_email} // '';
         local $ddclient::_l = $ddclient::_l;
         $ddclient::_l = ddclient::pushlogctx($_) for @{$tc->{ctxs} // []};
-        ddclient::logmsg(fh => $fh, @{$tc->{args}});
+        {
+            local *STDERR = $fh;
+            ddclient::logmsg(@{$tc->{args}});
+        }
         close($fh);
         is($output, $tc->{want}, 'output text matches');
         is($ddclient::emailbody, $tc->{want_email} // '', 'email content matches');