Title: WordPress Mail setup
Last modified: December 12, 2016

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# WordPress Mail setup

 *  [Yaswanth Gupta Bondada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yaswanthgupta/)
 * (@yaswanthgupta)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-mail-setup/)
 * I just completed my designing in localhost and uploaded my website to online 
   free hosting service (hostinger.in)
    When I register as new user and press signup,
   It is showing the following message : “You have successfully created your account!
   To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email
   we have just sent to your address.”
    - I am using BuddyPress for registering users.
    - Even if I use default wordpress signup I am not getting email.
    - The user is getting registered in my backend, but I need to activate him manually
      since the user is not getting any mail. This will really a big problem.
    - Is there anything that I need to configure for getting mail in my free hosting
      service hostinger.in?
    - I want to continue using free hosting service while mails are sent to users.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-mail-setup/#post-8541987)
 * It sounds like your hosting provider has disabled PHP’s `mail()` function, which
   contact form plugins use. It’s the same function that is used by WordPress to
   send most email.
 * This is a common safeguard employed by hosting providers when they suspect that
   another customer on the same server is sending spam emails directly from the 
   server, or by free hosting providers to limit resources (you get what you pay
   for).
 * Another alternative is that PHP’s `mail()` function is still active, but spammer
   activity from the server has already caused any email sent from it to be blacklisted.
   This would result in the emails being sent, but never received by any email address
   with basic anti-spam capabilities.
 * You can check this by leaving a comment on your site and checking if you receive
   an email. Another alternative would be to use the [Check Email](https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/)
   plugin and sending yourself a test email to see if it works.
 * If you didn’t receive a test email, you could try using a plugin like [Postman SMTP](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/)
   to configure your WordPress site to use your email’s outgoing mail server instead
   of PHP’s `mail()` function.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-mail-setup/#post-8541987)
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