cwallace

Quite frankly I am stunned at the real lack of involvement within the forums here.

I guess I am accustomed to software forums (especially open source) where there are significant numbers of users/members with a lot to contribute.

Any assistance with this would be tremendous. I have workarounds, but I am sure there are other solutions that people have done to make this request happen.

The only true plug-in source that I have found for WP actually costs money. Doesn’t that defeat the entire open source function of the software? Paying for FREE code…

Very disheartening…

Chris

I humbly accept being WRONG…!

Ok…here is what I found and I hope this might even help someone else in the future.

My setup is 4 servers in total in my house.

DNS, Mail, Web, DB.

This install was on the web server.

I was thinking that the WP install was using the supplied admin e-mail to attempt to connect over to my mail server and send out…however, it is just using the local box (which does have mail installed, just not used).

My mail server (postfix) did not allow a relay from the web box internally (as it never handles mail anyway).

So where I was thinking it was using the domain name to find my mail server and relay from it…it was actually doing everything internal.

So adding the IP address within Postfix to allow a relay from the web servers IP address fixed the replay issue and the 3rd test went out perfectly.

I will investigate any security issues or more refined relay allow-ability as I don’t want to just open the flood gates on this web box to be able to relay off my mail server for obvious reasons.

There might be a few other minor issues like reply back, but since that is handled by the mx record as long as the reply e-mail is set correctly (which I have verified) then they should find their destination perfectly fine.

I think I covered everything here and so far it appears to be working nicely on the latest test account.

Never give up…;) and of course my favorite personal quote ‘stupid computers’.

Thanks!!

Sorry…I must not have reloaded the page and missed your post.

I can assure you that my server is set up properly..

The situation that I know is probably causing this is that my server REQUIRES authentication…

if I don’t set a user/pass then the software will NOT be able to relay an e-mail out.

phpBB has an option within the admin panel that allows me to select authentication and enter a user/pass. Since WP doesn’t have that option I am assuming it is in a config file somewhere and I need to code it in there.

Since my WP install is on one server and the mail server is elsewhere I am curious if it trying to use a ‘localhost’ to send out the e-mail. Since this server doesn’t handle e-mail that will obviously fail.

My reverse DNS is set up correctly also.

Thanks,
Chris