Title: Comments and email.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments and email.

 *  [bernardflach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardflach/)
 * (@bernardflach)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/)
 * As of today my copy of WordPress (1.5) don’t send me emails whenever someone 
   gives a reaction to one of the posts. The profile is okay and emailaddress is
   okay. It worked yesterday. Does anyone had this same problem ? I searched the
   archives, but the answers did not work for me.

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 *  [eragle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eragle/)
 * (@eragle)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/#post-167664)
 * Bernard, I’m having sudden, unexpected problems as well. Not sure what is going
   on to be honest. My trackbacks and upload has suddenly stopped working in the
   last 3 days.
 *  Thread Starter [bernardflach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardflach/)
 * (@bernardflach)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/#post-167668)
 * I susspect a change in PHP-version, but is that possible ???
 *  [eragle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eragle/)
 * (@eragle)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/#post-167703)
 * Well a server-problem would definitely explain things…especially if it was something
   like a php upgrade. I’m going to check it out with my host anyway…
 *  Thread Starter [bernardflach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardflach/)
 * (@bernardflach)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/#post-167742)
 * I realy don’t get this. WordPress is sending out messages whenever i install 
   a new wordpress package. But the mails of the comments don’t get send. I use 
   the mail() function to check and the server sends out mail… somehow its a wordpress
   thing…. But i do not get this…
 *  [eragle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eragle/)
 * (@eragle)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/#post-167762)
 * Well I don’t use the email function of WordPress…just don’t have a use for it.
   But I do know that trackbacks still don’t work with a new theme installed and
   uploads are still hairy-giving a false upload message but the image is 0.kil
 *  Thread Starter [bernardflach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardflach/)
 * (@bernardflach)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/#post-168002)
 * this is what i found somewhere on internet :
    The problem could be a header problem
   and a certain linux-dictribution could not handle this. Is this possible ?
 * There seems to be lots of confusion about general e-mail and sendmail
    issues.
   Here’s my attempt to clear some of them up. 1. Line terminators. The RFC states
   that the line terminator for SMTP is \r\n. If PHP just passes the message string
   to the MTA unparsed, you must use \r\n to indicate line breaks in headers and
   the body. Some MTAs e.g. sendmail can understand \n on its own and can even be
   configured to fix the problem – but don’t rely on it. 2. -f <sender address> 
   This is a sendmail option to set the envelope sender. It is a so called privileged
   option because if any Unix user could issue it, they could easily impersonate
   any login account on the server. This is why setting the user under which apache
   is running to be a trusted user allows you to use this option (because sendmail
   is being invoked by the apache user). You can, of course set any headers you 
   like using the mail() function. These can include the From, Reply-to and Return-
   path headers. If these are already in the mail when sendmail sees them, they 
   will not be added or altered. Most mail user agents will display these in preference
   to the envelope sender. 3. “From” in the text of the mail. One poster has suggested
   you don’t begin lines with the word “From” because it gets munged with a “>”.
   In fact this is nothing whatsoever to do with SMTP which is perfectly capable
   of handling such lines. The “problem” is legitimate functionality of the standard
   Unix local delivery agent. With normal Unix mail boxes – which are flat text 
   files, each message starts with a line consisting of the word “From” and then
   the envelope sender and the date received. The “>” is inserted by the delivery
   agent to prevent normal text lines from being interpreted as the start of a new
   message. The mail user agent should take the “>” out again.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [bernardflach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardflach/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-and-email/#post-168002)
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