Not mailing passwords to registered users

  • pweingart

    (@pweingart)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    Hi, all,

    I selected to allow anyone to post after a simple registration. I had a user complain today that they never received the password the site promised them.

    I think I know why, but I need to understand: where does WordPress make the connection to the local server’s email system?

    I’m on a Linux server running Fedora Core 8.

    Phil W.

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  • Thread Starter pweingart

    (@pweingart)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Added detail:

    It was working just fine. Then my server crashed and I had to reinstall Linux; and THEN I upgraded Linux from Fedora Core 7 to Core 8.

    I updated sendmail.mc to recognize my ISP’s outgoing mail host as the relay for outgoing mail (smtp.comcast.net).

    When I get a new user to register, root on my local host gets mail indicating a couple of things: 1) wordpress@myblogname.com failed (UNKNOWN). and 2) internal.relay.comcast.net (fictitious name) BLOCKED.

    Any suggestions?

    Phil W.

    lancerkind

    (@lancerkind)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Are you authenticating into the mail relay?

    I did a post about this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/201099?replies=1

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