Jason Hendriks

connecting to an external server is most often going to be slower than using PHP Mail, because you need to connect to another server before letting the client know it was done

true! 🙂 You might be surprised at the speed of the API though. You can try my own contact form.

Queueing gives no useful feedback to your visitor. Sending the email right away gives feedback to the visitor that the email was correctly delivered. I realize this can be mitigated by Postman’s email log and email address validator… Still it’s nice to know that the green success message from CF7 means the email is actually on its way.

any performance improvements using those services would be outweighed by their cost.

I believe SendGrid still offers free accounts. Mandrill does not.

I therefore turned off the SMTP in that plugin, but the queuing still seems to be bypassed.

Yes, only one plugin can “own” the wp_mail function at a time. Mail queueing is the kind of thing that Postman would have to do itself. Or the mail queue plugin author and I would have to work together on a special solution.

Post the output of your Diagnostic Test and I will let you know what you need to do.

As it doesn’t appear to malware and it doesn’t appear to be my host, is there anything else we can do to stop this file from being renamed?

Assuming it is malware, you can change the owner of the file to something other the web user, so that the web user (WordPress) can not rename the file. Depending on your Unix skills you may need to ask your host for help.

sudo chown nobody postman-smtp/Postman/Postman-Configuration/PostmanSmtpDiscovery.php

Another option is to set the file as read-only, but depending on the intelligence of the malware, it may just set it back to writable and then rename it. But it’s worth a try.

chmod 666 postman-smtp/Postman/Postman-Configuration/PostmanSmtpDiscovery.php

A third option is to rename the file to something else entirely, like alex.php. Then you’ll also have to change line 9 of PostmanAdminController.php to reflect your change:

require_once 'Postman-Configuration/alex.php';

Presumably if the malware can’t find it, it can’t be renamed.

I thought it was just a matter of going to Google Developers Console with my different Google Account

It should be.

The API (Gmail API) is not enabled for your project. Please use the Google Developers Console to update your configuration.

The obvious question is… is the Gmail API enabled in your new account’s Developer Console?

Sorry you’re having trouble. Unfortunately, generating content is not Postman’s responsibility. You probably have a plugin or theme interfering with the order email from Woocommerce. On its own Woocommerce works fine.

You know I hate snarky comments like that. I’m not giving you attitude. In fact I went to the trouble of putting a winky face and a ‘hope that helps’ and both went right over you head.

There’s no way you can infer my emotional state from the above text, so why don’t you just assume I’m enjoying helping you rather than jump down my throat? What motive could I possibly have to piss you off?? I don’t get paid for helping anyone in my support forum. I do it because i want to.

That’s preferred. But you can email it to me.

I’ll take “sometimes none” to mean Postman delivered an email but you never received it, correct? This is a different problem and you’ll need to send me your diagnostic test so I can troubleshoot it.