Title: EMail problems!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# EMail problems!

 *  [dlature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlature/)
 * (@dlature)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/)
 * I am very discouraged with the level of support/response in these forums. Every
   instance I have found ovber the past hour of searching where people have lost
   their notification is not getting any answers provided.
    I recently moved to 
   WordPress after 3 years on Movable Type. Now , my email notification mysteriously
   stopped working. I suspect my host has done something, but I cannot find anywhere
   in wordpress admin where to set my outgoing server and name and password. My 
   host has asked me for this mail server info, but I cannot find it to give it 
   to them. Can someone PLEASE help?

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 *  [Nazgul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nazgul/)
 * (@nazgul)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/#post-402855)
 * That’s because WordPress (and almoste evrey other php based system) uses the 
   mail server specified in your PHP configuration. (php.ini)
 * I’d expect a decent hosting service to know this.
 *  Thread Starter [dlature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlature/)
 * (@dlature)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/#post-402879)
 * I don’t have a php.ini file in my account files, in my root or in my wordpress
   directory.
 *  [Nazgul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nazgul/)
 * (@nazgul)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/#post-402884)
 * That’s because it’s something you’re not allowed to change in most hosting environments.
   It can only be done by the hosting service.
 * That’s why I stated that I expect a decent hosting service knows that’s the location
   of the configured mail server, because they configured it themselves.
 *  Thread Starter [dlature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlature/)
 * (@dlature)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/#post-402885)
 *  Thread Starter [dlature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlature/)
 * (@dlature)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/#post-402891)
 * I posted that question to my host
 * thanks
 *  [naa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa/)
 * (@naa)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/#post-403074)
 * I’m having the same problem and it only occured AFTER I upgraded to WordPress
   2.x I still use 1.5 and get emails with no problems from there and I have forums
   that use php mail and we get those also, it’s just WordPress 2 that I’m having
   a problem with. I’ve been haunting the board/forums/whatever you want to call
   it for weeks with no resolution in sight, several users are having the same problems
   and nobody can seem to solve it. And you can’t just say it’s my host (read the
   first few lines in this reply). So please, any assistance is appreciated, I’ve
   already tried several suggestions that was given by this board and am still having
   problems.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [naa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-problems-1/#post-403074)
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