WordPress No Longer Sending Email Notifications

  • Resolved tylerarnold23

    (@tylerarnold23)


    10 years ago

    After the auto update (which now makes me dislike this feature) WordPress has stopped doing a lot of the basic things like email notifications. Emails are not being sent out to myself (the admin) or users when a new user is made, it was a nice feature and one that I hope WP is not abandoning. Also I had some plugins that notified certain emails whenever post status’ were changed to pending (a very useful tool with multiple authors and editors) and that is no longer sending emails from the website. I am not advanced in my WP/HTML skills so please don’t come in here and tell me I need to go through and mess with a bunch of stuff, I had a working website (to my taste) yesterday, and no longer do today. I can tell by the large amount of angered people with complaints that I am not alone, and hope WP is doing something to rectify this problem.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    10 years ago

    After the auto update (which now makes me dislike this feature)

    – You can configure auto updates:

    – Have a read of this for Configuring Automatic Background Updates: http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates

    Emails are not being sent out to myself (the admin) or users when a new user is made

    – you mean passwords are not being sent? yes? Have a read of this codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#E-mailed_passwords_are_not_being_received
    – Also, ask your hosting provider if any of their SMTP filtering rules have changed recently.

    Thread Starter tylerarnold23

    (@tylerarnold23)

    10 years ago

    Yes passwords are not being sent out, but I am more pissed about my site not sending emails to editors when articles are pending, that’s a pain in the ass as it was a very convenient system. There were no changes made with my hosting and the problem occurred literally right after the update so it has to be tied to 3.8.2. The final email I received from the site was the update email, after which later that evening pending article emails ceased and have yet to work again. I’m not the only one experiencing issues with it, when is somebody going to stop directing the problem elsewhere and fix it? There was obviously something wrong in 3.8.2

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    10 years ago

    somebody going to stop directing the problem elsewhere and fix it?

    – Nobody is trying to give you run around. These are ruitine troubleshooting steps.

    There was obviously something wrong in 3.8.2

    Have you filed a bug report?

    I am more pissed about my site not sending emails to editors when articles are pending,

    All helpers are volunteers here. If you need professional help, consider looking for a professional to fix it correctly on http://jobs.wordpress.net/
    – Try http://directory.codepoet.com/

    Thread Starter tylerarnold23

    (@tylerarnold23)

    10 years ago

    I understand you’re volunteers but that’s because WordPress doesn’t have a single person willing to help resolve issues, I have not filed a bug report, but will be doing so. I am not paying a professional to fix something that worked up until an auto update from WordPress derailed my site functions. I am even chatting with my Hosting professionals, and they have no idea why the email from the site is not working, so obviously something went wrong somewhere in the course of the update because that is the only event around which the problems began.

    Thread Starter tylerarnold23

    (@tylerarnold23)

    10 years ago

    While talking to my hosting partners they are verifying that it is indeed something in the new update, and he is trying to pin point what. If found, as a volunteer, do you have any authority to run an existing problem up the ladder or is WordPress just going to ignore a blatant error.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    10 years ago

    If found, as a volunteer, do you have any authority to run an existing problem up the ladder

    Sorry, I don’t.

    Perhaps one of the forum moderators may.

    Exponential

    (@exponential)

    10 years ago

    I’ve experienced the same problem.

    Since my website auto updated I am not receiving any WordPress emails from my site. This includes contact form (contact form 7) emails which are users on my site complete.

    Any help or assistance on this would be appreciated.

    James

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    10 years ago

    @exponential:
    Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Please review how and where to post in this forum: http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post It’s the best way to get attention to your specific issue as you deserve.

    Exponential

    (@exponential)

    10 years ago

    Hi Tara, thanks for your message.

    Yes I agree, I have done some additional digging and found a work around which was to install a plugin called WP-Mail-SMTP.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

    I think this works by reconfiguring the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail().

    Therefore it suggests the problem is something to do with mail() but I don’t know what exactly as I’m only a novice.

    anuruddha94

    (@anuruddha94)

    10 years ago

    Hi guys I experience the same issue here. Its really frustrating. Anybody knows any fix? Thank you.

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