[Plugin: Better WP Security] Sending backup emails through Mandrill stopped working

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Fox

(@pmfox)

I’m getting errors sending the email backups to me in error_logs.

I’m using mandrillapp.com (wpmandrill is the plugin to the app) to send emails so I can track and get better deliverability. It uses the native wp email functions but sends through their system.

It started with the last upgrade of Better WP Security. It’s generating the backups but not sending.

Here is an example of the error in my root, error-log

[12-Aug-2012 12:49:03]
wpMandrill::sendEmail: Exception Caught => The domain of the email you provided has not been verified by Mandrill.

[12-Aug-2012 12:49:03]
wpMandrill::wp_mail_native: email@mydomain.com (Site Database Backup Sunday, August 12th, 2012 at 5:49 am)

Mandrill is set correctly and my domain is verified. I don’t know if Better WP Security is using another ‘send as’ email address?

Here’s the wp-admin/error-log:

[11-Aug-2012 14:07:04]
wpMandrill::sendEmail: Exception Caught => The domain of the email you provided has not been verified by Mandrill.

[11-Aug-2012 14:07:04]
wpMandrill::wp_mail_native: email@mydomain.com (Site Database Backup Saturday, August 11th, 2012 at 7:07 am)

[12-Aug-2012 18:39:03] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Mandrill_Exception' with message ' - ' in /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpmandrill/lib/mandrill.class.php:104
Stack trace:
#0 /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpmandrill/lib/mandrill.class.php(125): Mandrill->request('users/info')
#1 /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpmandrill/wpmandrill.php(1082): Mandrill->users_info()
#2 [internal function]: wpMandrill::showDashboardWidget('', Array)
#3 /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-admin/includes/template.php(975): call_user_func(Array, '', Array)
#4 /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php(205): do_meta_boxes('dashboard', 'side', '')
#5 /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-admin/index.php(108): wp_dashboard()
#6 {main}
  thrown in /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpmandrill/lib/mandrill.class.php on line 104

I’ve changed the email address and path to root for security reasons.

These don’t make much sense to me but I do know it’s not delivering email backups to me since the upgrade.
Thanks.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/

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Bit51 (part of the iThemes family)
(@bit51)

11 years, 8 months ago

This error is your spam filter saying it doesn’t like the email address it’s sending from. I’m afraid only your host can help you with this one as it isn’t an issue with the plugin (the plugin passes the message on which then fails with your host).

Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply. Would it have anything to do with my email being handled by Google Apps and no longer at the host?
I’ll contact the host too.
Again, thanks for the speedy reply.

Bit51 (part of the iThemes family)
(@bit51)

11 years, 8 months ago

That might explain it (normally that’s against GApps EULA, I’ve in fact seen numerous GApps accounts banned for doing just that).

Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago

What part is against the GApps EULA?

Funny thing is the error_log only showed up last week, out of the blue, and I’ve been on Apps for a couple years.

Bit51 (part of the iThemes family)
(@bit51)

11 years, 8 months ago

I would have to look up the EULA later but I’ve had them suspend accounts for just that. Could it have to do with the way they’ve changed postini? I’ve never heard of wpMandrill before…

Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago

Mandrill is from the guys at MailChimp. It allows you to send mail via SMTP through them, instead of other, more spam related options, like PHP.
It’s a nice setup and should be better deliverability.

I don’t believe I have Postini active but will check that too.

Thanks a lot.

MC_Will
(@mc_will)

11 years, 8 months ago

Hello guys,

Are you sure wpMandrill is correctly set up? If you try to perform a Password Recovery, the email you got is sent by Mandrill (check full headers)?

We released a new version of wpMandrill last week so we probably broke something somewhere.

Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago

MC_Will,
I’ll check later, when I’m at a computer. It was set up correctly before but I’ll check. You want me to do a WP Password recovery, correct? Not through the Mandrillapp site.

MC_Will
(@mc_will)

11 years, 8 months ago

That’s correct. I mean a passw recovery through your wp installation.

You don’t even need to reset it. Just get the email, check its headers, and delete it.

Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago

ME_Will:
The “Mail by” section reads:
mailed-by: mail26.us4.mandrillapp.com

Is that what you’re asking about? All my other mail sent seems to be working.
It’s just this site backup.
And, I did receive the backup emailed this morning. I also have the error log though, which I don’t want to keep growing. Ha.
Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago
ME_Will:
I noticed the email in Better WP Security was to me@MyDomain.com and changed it to me@mydomain.com (removing the camelcase).

When I changed the email and manually sent the backup (went into plugin admin and hit the “Create Database Backup” button), it created an error_log in wp-admin.
However, the error was different this time. The error is this:
```
[14-Aug-2012 04:00:21]
wpMandrill::processAttachments: /pathtoroot/public_html/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/backups/database-backup-1344916820.zip => Error creating the attachment structure: application/zip is not a valid content type (it should be image/*,text/*,application/pdf).
```
I hope this helps. I don’t know if the camelcase made a difference but I ended up with a different result.

Also, the info from the email:
mailed-by: mail26.us4.mandrillapp.com
signed-by: mydomain.com
Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago

I just noticed there is no attachment now too. That’s not good at all.

Kaitlin A.
(@mc_kaitlin)

11 years, 8 months ago

It looks like the backup file is a .zip, which isn’t currently supported for Mandrill. We currently only support images, audio, video, text files and PDFs as described here: http://eepurl.com/nXMa1

MC_Will
(@mc_will)

11 years, 8 months ago

Kaitlin is right.

However, wpMandrill shouldn’t have sent it anyway. Whenever it encounters an error, it silently send the email using the native wp_mail function and leave a trace in the log.

Did you get a message like this one in your log file?
[DATE TIME] wpMandrill::wp_mail_native: user@domain.com (Email Subject)

I’ll dig into this. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thread Starter Fox
(@pmfox)

11 years, 8 months ago

It was receiving the zip last week and up until I removed the camelcase for my email address.
I’ve disabled Mandrill and everything’s working fine. It’s not worth the hassle for me to keep playing with it.

It would be nice to have wpMandrill send all comment updates and other emails but I can specify my backups or other specific emails are sent with native WP mail function.

Thanks.