Title: Gmail hosted email : solution to notifications and passwords
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Gmail hosted email : solution to notifications and passwords

 *  Resolved [obbyboy1969](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obbyboy1969/)
 * (@obbyboy1969)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-hosted-email-solution/)
 * Here is my solution for having my domain email hosted with gmail. (not the [anyone@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-hosted-email-solution/anyone@gmail.com?output_format=md)
   account, but the [you@yourdomain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-hosted-email-solution/you@yourdomain.com?output_format=md)
   email)
    I saw a ton of people having problems with this. Now, I not only get 
   notifications when someone signs up, but the people who sign up for my blog get
   their passwords mailed to them! I found this solution by trying many combination’s
   of changing php files to SMTP and email plugins over the past 3 days.
 * **1.** make sure your MX records is with google. you can check this at
    [http://www.mxtoolbox.com/](http://www.mxtoolbox.com/)
   put in your domain name and hit the MX Lookup button. mine came up. with Host
   Name: aspmx.l.google.com **2.** Disable ALL smtp addons. I recommend disabling
   all addons. **3.** In the WP Dashboard go to Settings> General tab. Make sure
   your email address is NOT your hosted email. you need to use one that is NOT 
   with your gmail hosted account. I am using a free [@yahoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yahoo/).
   com address. **4.** Go to your Users > Your Profile tab. in your contact info
   put in your Hosted email address. **5.** Go to the email account that is in the
   Settings> General tab and set up email forwarding to your hosted account. I set
   up a brand new yahoo account just for WP so I could forward it to my hosted email.
 * Now I receive notifications when someone subscribes to my blog. 🙂 AND the subscribers
   are getting passwords to log-in! Subscribe2 plug-in is also working with these
   settings.
 * *note. I also had to set the wp-mail.php and class-phpmailer.php back to the 
   default files that came from the 2.7v download. If you didnt change these files
   it shouldn’t be a problem. But I did a bunch of changes to these files as suggested
   in other posts. So I just uploaded those two original files.
    I know its not 
   a ‘clean’ fix. But it works, for me at least. Its an easy try that doesn’t or
   shouldn’t involve messing with any files or code. My biggest problem/mistake 
   was I was ‘testing’ to [my-email@mydomain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-hosted-email-solution/my-email@mydomain.com?output_format=md)
   and trying to get that to work. Once I realized that I cant send to [anything@mydomain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-hosted-email-solution/anything@mydomain.com?output_format=md)
   but I could send to EVERY other [email@everyonelse.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-hosted-email-solution/email@everyonelse.com?output_format=md)
   I was golden. Give it a go and let me know if this works for someone else with
   a hosted Gmail account. Nothing else worked for me. If anyone else has a cleaner
   solution, let me know too.

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 * Last reply from: [obbyboy1969](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obbyboy1969/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-hosted-email-solution/)
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