Callum Macdonald
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I’m the plugin author.
This has been discussed many times before. Bottom line, the password cannot be securely encrypted, it’s needed in plain text to pass to PHPMailer. Putting it behind a type=”password” is not security, view source will reveal the password in plain text. Therefore, it’s my decision to have the password in plain view such that it is obvious to people that the password is not stored securely.
I suggest you create a second email account used only for WordPress to limit the risk.
You can safely ignore the error. It’s only an issue on activation and doesn’t affect ongoing performance.
I’m not sure what’s going on here. It’s a known issue, but it seems to be a problem with WordPress rather than the plugin, as strange as that sounds. I haven’t looked into it in real detail yet. Somehow the file is included twice and one function is therefore declared twice.
This is the most common error message, here’s what I’ve written on the plugin page:
Could not connect to host
If you see an error like “Failed to connect to server”, the plugin is working, PHP cannot connect to the server. Look at the whole error message and investigate from there.Check your php.ini settings around fopen() permissions, check your SMTP host is correct, or contact your server administrator.
If your error is “Cannot connect to host”, please look for support elsewhere, please do not ask for support here. These questions have been asked many times before, please search the history. The plugin is working, the issue lies elsewhere.
I’m the plugin author. I can say with 99% certainty that the plugin code works fine. It’s been a long time since anyone reported a bug. Gmail will automatically change the “From:” address to be the gmail address, to avoid spamming.
I suggest asking your web host to help debug the issue.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] SMTP test e-mail not working with Gmail@arikontiainen: Neither bug nor feature, Gmail changes the from address to stop people sending “forged” emails through their system.
Yeah, I’m not sure what causes that error. It doesn’t make any sense. I can only figure it’s a bug in WordPress, but that seems a little unlikely. There’s a ticket here on trac. The plugin works fine after that error message, so if you cannot send mail, you can safely ignore that first message, the problem lies elsewhere.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP-Mail-SMTP 0.8.6, Sending emails does not workForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sending emails does not work@alyen: You’re simply wrong. The plugin works fine under 3.0.1. If you have a specific error please feel free to post it. I recommend using a new thread, this thread has already gone way off topic.
Disclosure: I’m the plugin developer.
In my opinion, better to be completely transparent that the password is stored in plain text, than give the illusion of security that does not exist. The way it stands, users can see that their password is stored in plain text, it’s right there on the screen. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin activation in WP3.0I think this is an erroneous error. Does the plugin work as expected? I have the same problem with the WP Mail SMTP plugin I wrote, but despite the error, the plugin works fine. I can’t figure out what causes the error, nothing is output from the plugin.
I suggest you ignore the error and see if the plugin works anyway.
I think this error might be erroneous. Users are reporting the same problem for the WP Mail SMTP plugin I developed, but I can’t figure out why. The plugin works fine and doesn’t appear to output anything. I think it might be an issue in WordPress rather than the plugin, but I’m not 100% sure. You could try asking the plugin author directly.
Thanks for sharing.
Point 1 has been discussed and the suggestion rejected.
Point 2 is the first time I’ve heard it. Personally, I’d like to see this plugin redundant because SMTP options are included in core. In which case, Options > Email seems like the most sensible name. I’m not inclined to change the existing menu name right now, I think it could cause more confusion than benefit.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: What plugin drives site updates on wordpress.comSend me site updates
That’s the same as the notify me of posts for users who are not logged into WordPress.com.
Subscribe to Comments hasn’t been updated in 2.5 years. The comments page on the author’s site is somewhat out of control with spam and no answers to recent questions. Is it really the best option out there?
I also saw the Subscribe2 plugin, I’m reluctant to get involved in code that is half free, half for sale. Plus, I think it’s really important that both comments and posts are integrated so users can one-click unsubscribe from everything. I believe that’s how it works on WP.com.
I think most of wp.com is open source, but there are pieces they keep for themselves, I’ve run across that before. I’m guessing at this point I’ll build something on top of Subscribe to Comments, it seems like the best starting point.
Thanks for taking the time to share MacManX.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sending emails does not workI’m not sure what to suggest. My site is running WP 3.0 and the plugin runs fine. I haven’t had any valid bug reports since 3.0 was released.
Interesting code. I’d think most people want SMTP used on their production servers and mail() on their local machines, but I can see your use case. I develop on a virtual machine, not localhost, but the same approach would apply I suppose.
I like your approach of filtering option_mailer, that will likely trigger the other parts of the plugin to function correctly.
Thanks for sharing. 🙂