Jason Hendriks

Probably your host put it there to prevent you from sending mail.

There are two classes of SMTP plugins, those that inject your SMTP settings into PHPMailer:

• WP Mail SMTP
• Easy SMTP
• WP Mail Bank
• Configure SMTP

And those that replace PHP Mailer with something else:

• wp Mandrill
• SendGrid
• Postman
• Cimy Swift

While they all work with wp_mail, WP DB Backup is specifically coded to work with the first group only. That does not mean the second ground should all get 1-Stars. It means WP DB Backup should fix their code.

To send mail in WordPress, use wp_mail. Not @$phpmailer->Send();

Ya.. because WP DB Backup codes directly to PHPMailer. There’s a WordPress API for e-mail and they don’t use it.

There is no way that is the fault of this plugin. What else have you got?

http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-db-backup/tags/2.3.0/wp-db-backup.php:

// try to use phpmailer directly (WP 2.2+)
if ( is_object( $phpmailer ) && ( strtolower(get_class( $phpmailer )) == 'phpmailer' ) ) {

	$phpmailer->AddAddress( $to );
	$phpmailer->AddAttachment($diskfile, $filename);
	$phpmailer->Body = $message;
	$phpmailer->CharSet = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_charset', get_bloginfo('charset') );
	$phpmailer->From = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from', $from_email );
	$phpmailer->FromName = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from_name', $from_name );
	$phpmailer->IsMail();
	$phpmailer->Subject = $subject;

	do_action_ref_array( 'phpmailer_init', array( &$phpmailer ) );

	$result = @$phpmailer->Send();

Hi. Your diagnostics are suspicious

WordPress wp_mail Owner: /var/www/vhosts/mysite.de/httpdocs/wp-config.php

Open up this file and see what’s in it. See if you see something like the following

function wp_mail

That’s not part of the normal WordPress distribution.

.. this was a good idea, but I can’t get the SMTP transcript from PHP mail.

My choices are

• use PHP mail and show no log
• use SMTP to localhost:25 and show a log