Title: Forgot Password Email
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Forgot Password Email

 *  Resolved [djweezy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djweezy/)
 * (@djweezy)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-email/)
 * When i try to recover a password for a user i just created it get the following
   error
 * The e-mail could not be sent.
    Possible reason: your host may have disabled the
   mail() function…
 * But I have a minimal page i wrote that just sends an email using the php mail()
   function and it works fine. Whats wrong?

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 *  Thread Starter [djweezy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djweezy/)
 * (@djweezy)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-email/#post-858189)
 * also bbpress can send emails fine on the same server
 *  Thread Starter [djweezy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djweezy/)
 * (@djweezy)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-email/#post-858194)
 * ok somehow i fixed it
 *  [rbolesta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbolesta/)
 * (@rbolesta)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-email/#post-858449)
 * how did you fix it? I’m having the same problem.
 *  [rbolesta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbolesta/)
 * (@rbolesta)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-email/#post-858450)
 * Nevermind. I didn’t realize how man times this topic is repeated here.
 * To save a little time, this seems to be a good solution:
 * [http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/05/22/wp-emergency-password-recovery/](http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/05/22/wp-emergency-password-recovery/)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [rbolesta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbolesta/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-email/#post-858450)
 * Status: resolved

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