Jason Hendriks
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\r\n Reply-To:Try removing the space at the beginning of Reply-To
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Fantastic pluginHahaha lol. Thank-you! 😂
it just does not work if column is filled with {name} {email} at the same time and show error with mentioned {name} <{email}>
Thanks Peter, good to know. I made a guess!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Gmail keeps changing the APIHere is what the Connectivity Test looks like when it is run against a host that is redirecting connections:
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/postman-smtp/assets/screenshot-11.pngHere is what the Wizard looks like when it is run against a host that is redirecting connections:
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/postman-smtp/assets/examples/wizard-mitm.pngYou should see something similar on your own website as the text in yellow:
Warning: connected to x instead of yThis means you can not use smtp.gmail.com:465 at rocksoft.net. It’s not due to anything Gmail or the plugin is doing.
Have you talked to your host about the issue?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Can't send an email using OptimizepressHi eneskaraboga I made a change so that the module transports initialize before the WordPress init hook.
Would you kindly download the development version and let me know if it solves this issue?
@rotbieest, I believe I have a fix for this. I’ve made the change to the development branch. Would you mind installing it and making sure it works now?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] V1.7Maybe I am missing something but just upgraded to V1.7 and can’t find the settings page.
This is fixed in Postman v1.7.1
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Gmail keeps changing the API220-Cloud-Linux-CPanel-04.rocksoft.net
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
504 XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism not supportedAs I suspected. You haven’t connected to Gmail. You’ve connected to rocksoft.net. Obviously XOAUTH2 is not supported there.
it uses smtp.gmail.com:465 to send out email
Either you’ve haven’t configured it at the socket you say you did or your web host is redirecting the connections meant for Google back to itself. Postman should have detected this and warned you, either during the Connectivity Test or through the Setup Wizard.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Gmail SMTP from name and addressit seems that the send mail as feature would allow this if it was my email but not for emails that I do not have ownership of.
That’s correct.
Is it possible to achieve what I want with gmail?
I believe so, but you’ll have to deliver your Gmail with the SendGrid API. That means signing up for an account at SendGrid with your Gmail address. Then switch Postman to the correct API and enter your API key – this feature is available in Postman 1.7.
Previously I was telling people this was possible with Mandrill, but as of Aug 2015, they stopped allowing it too. Because of phishing, most providers (like Gmail and Mandrill) are preventing the ability to “spoof” from their service.
Best practice is to think of the website as a third party sending you email. For example, joe@gmail fills out a contact form that is sent to jane@wordpress which is delivered by info@wordpress.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Gmail API transport encrypted?Absolutely; the WebServices API runs over HTTPS – just like your website.
I wrote an article on setting up email so it is reliable : WordPress emails are sent but not received
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: I can't access anything in my wordpress backendThat’s my plugin. What can I do to help you?
Sounds like some file is corrupt and you will need to delete the plugin folder
wp-content/plugins/postman-smtpYou can do it yourself with FTP or you can ask your host to do it.
Is there no more of that message? Usually there’s a description of the error, not just a line number.
@djlo you are confused about something
it shows the “From Name” as my site name
all you see is a bunch of emails with the website name instead of the personThese statements agree with this statement :
Of course, the sender is set up as myself
And contradict with this statement :
I’m trying to figure out if the “Reply to” name can be the person filling the form instead of my site’s name.
So to clarify:
- It is the From field that is used for your list of emails in your inbox
- It is the Reply-To field that is used for replying
when I didn’t have to use SMTP to send emails it showed up just fine with the name and the email of the person sending the form
This probably means that WP SMTP Mail is overriding the value of the from field sent by Gravity Forms. There are other SMTP plugins that have the feature you want, keeping the from field as Gravity Forms sent it.
Gravity forms allow you to set up just email as Reply to, not name in front of that field
If you can fix the From field, you don’t even need the Reply-to field. But, assuming Gravity works the same way Contact Form 7, this is simple.
Change the reply-to email to be :
Reply-to: [visitor-name] <[visitor-email]>Note the angle brackets.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Postman stopped emailing 2 days agoThere is only one fix from your point of view: change Postman’s config to authenticate with the internal server.
From the host point of view, another fix is to modify the firewall rules.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Postman stopped emailing 2 days agoIt seemed that they had to open up port 53.
Port 53 is DNS. If they were blocking port 53, they would have basically ‘broken their Internet’ so that doesn’t make much sense. (WordPress auto updates would fail, for example).
The support rep also mentioned that the developer should give more information in the debug log about failed DNS lookup attempts (or outgoing queries).
Postman logs all php exceptions and all error conditions in the debug log and on the admin screen. I’m one of the few developers that makes extensive use of php’s error_log.
the debug log only shows when a connection is made and then displays a Warning.
The debug log will you show you all kinds of things if you release it from its cage with Settings > Advanced > PHP Log Level > Trace.
I was receiving the following Warnings:
Warning: connected to mydomain.com instead of gmail.com
Does this make sense?
No.
This warning is generated by the connectivity test and the wizard, not by DNS lookups. It is also displayed to you on both screens. It means Postman discovered the SMTP server you connected to, my domain.com, is not the SMTP server it expected. It does this by actually talking to the server. The only way this can happen is if your host is redirecting all external SMTP traffic to their own internal SMTP server. If this were to happen outside of a controlled environment, it would be known as a Man in the Middle attack. It has nothing to do with DNS and everything to do with their firewall.
Your tech support should know how their own firewall is configured. Whoever you spoke to has a poor understanding of the processes involved. Which, I guess is why they are support, and not development. 😉
