Title: E-mail password
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# E-mail password

 *  [budwii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budwii/)
 * (@budwii)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/)
 * Whenever someone registers, they do not receive the password in their mail. When
   I set up a dummy and tried for a password reset I got this message:
 * The e-mail could not be sent.
    Possible reason: your host may have disabled the
   mail() function…
 * How do I enable the E-mail function? I do have the latest version of WP.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/#post-523839)
 * You don’t.
    Your host does. Or can 🙂
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/#post-523840)
 * Did your host disable the mail() function? You’d want to ask them that. 🙂
 * If they have indeed done so, you’ll want to use one of the many plugins that’ll
   help work around that.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/#post-523843)
 * That’s why HS has a + sign next to his name: he can put in nice sentences my “
   laconic” replies 😉
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/#post-523846)
 * … rofl! For the record, my post was exactly 9 seconds behind moshu’s…
 *  Thread Starter [budwii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budwii/)
 * (@budwii)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/#post-524028)
 * To HandySolo (moderator+),
 *  I have looked at the plugins. Would you point me in the right direction? I am
   new to all this and have been to the help docs, around the forums and have looked
   at code after code until my head swims.
 * Bud
 *  [StonePilot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stonepilot/)
 * (@stonepilot)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/#post-524295)
 * I need help with this issue. We’re running our own server, but I don’t have a
   clue about configuring SMTP on it.

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 * [e-mail](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/e-mail/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [StonePilot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stonepilot/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-password-2/#post-524295)
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