If you don’t know how the password functionality works, how can you test it? If it was me, I’d start by looking through the scripts, checking the db and trawling through the Codex.
Hello esmi, thanks for the repsonce. Thats my point, I cant. The thing is I cant read the script (I don’t know PHP), and trawling the Codex seems to have turned up nothing but articles about the email posting functionn. I am basically an idiot at the moment, I dont know where on the globe I am standing or which direction to head in. I could use a bearing.
whooami, yes I understand smpt (I think) but would have imagined that if this just this protocol used stright out the password function would already be working unless I have a firewall blocking it. Outgoing I can;t imagine I would. I have a POP3 account, I set that as a user address. Requested a password, nothing.
explaining how to set up a server is outside the scope of this forum (for me, at least). There are TONS of other resources for that sort of conversation.
if you request a lost password via the wp-login.php page, and you dont get a specific message about mail being disabled, than smtp is installed on the box.
that does NOT mean that smtp is working correctly or being friendly with wordpress, however.
So then, you use your trusty browser, and you google how to test that smtp IS working. You can do it at a cli or using any number of scripts..
In fact, I linked to a page which provided several examples.
Thank you whooami, I was just looking. I think I need to put some more effort in now. I’ve got that bearing I needed, smtp. I think part of the problem maybe that this smtp task is more nonsensical than the ones I’ve have tinkered with in the past.
For anyone who may chance upon this thread and benefit from knowing, if your test environment connects to the internet via an ISP’s dynamically allocated IP pool there is a good chance the server of any bonafide POP3 address you may be using to test (for example, as I was) will reject your Worpress site’s SMTP envelope.
This could be for one of any number of reasons. I tried recipient address ‘A’ from my work’s fixed (commercial product) ip address which worked regardless of the sender address being meaningless, from home sent again to ‘A’ it failed sighting my home originating ip as banned by its spam system, it wouldn’t even recieve the envelope. I tried a second recipient address ‘B’ which accepted the envelope but wouldn’t deliver it sighting reasons unspecific.
The tool I used was a Windows command line SMTP mailer http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm
I won’t attest for its ‘safety’ either way (thats up to you) but it did what I needed (the -d switch is very helpful).
Now I am going to try to setup a mail server on my LAN or perhaps even the same host to use as a test. I may post here again if I do. Its probably outside the scope of this forum but its vaguely relevant to WordPress and if I looked here maybe someone else will.
