No email notification on WP 2

Have also asked this. Glad it’s not just me.

same here

Same issue here. No LiveSearch

Okay, i stumbled butt backwards into a solution that seems to work for me. Im on a windows IIS shared server, so in order to get permalinks work correctly for me I had to use the ‘Permalinks Without mod_rewrite’ workaround as explained on the codex…
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

Just a vague guess on my part that 2.0 was handling mail differently than 1.5 and that it was my shared IIs server causing the glitch…
ie: i couldnt use the default localhost in wp-config.php , had explicity enter the db_host

so after googling around a bit about php.ini and Mail, a
php.ini sample (totally unrelated to wordpress) had this entry that caught my eye….

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = me@localhost.com

so i added the above to my php.ini (that contained only the permalink workaround) adding my info in place of localhost (mail.mydomain.com) and my Email in place of me@localhost.com.

lo and behold, my email notifications worked. Author notice, Moderation notice etc..

i removed the second part of the above and it turns out the
sendmail_from was not needed, so my php.ini contains only the below..as it would not work without it.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

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I blabbered about my permalinks issue so youd understand what made me think of this “solution”

Honestly, I DONT really understand why it does what it does, and I DONT know what negative effects it might have…yes im not so smart 😛

So this is not a real solution , just a workaround that happens to work for me so far….maybe it will help others.

Hopefully someone alot smarter will explain to us how we can really check/correct/modify mail settings within wordpress’s configuration itself. id really rather not depend on this.

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fyi: there are mail plugins that might help folks…unfortunately im also having unresolved plugin issues so i havnt had a chance to see if mail plugin would help

me too … any others give a hand?

i am having the same issue as above. i’m using 2.0.1.

i don’t know if this is really related but when click on the my admin e-mail address in opntions – general i get:

note: in an effort to combat spam, we require that this e-mail address match your domain (e.g. you@blog.alanguilan.com).

i don’t know if i can make such an address with the subdomain there.

p.s. Couple of things I forgot to mention:

1. You should probably “do the right thing” and get the code to e-mail you in the same character set as your blog. To do this, change the first line above to the following:
   $message_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
. "From: $admin_email\n"
. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"" . get_settings('blog_charset') . "\"\n";

2. I guessed at the value comment_moderation_headers that I’m passing to apply_filters from looking at other values passed elsewhere. I’ve no idea what it does (if anything at all!) but it doesn’t seem to do any harm. 🙂

I’ve not been able to get either this mod or the wpphpmailer plugin to work. I’ve contacted my host to see if they’ve changed anything on the server end, but I’m not feeling very confident… anyone else come up with other solutions? A new version of WP perhaps??