awrl100

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.

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.