Jason Hendriks
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Registration emails not sending, while other notifications are@keress did you read my article?
“But that can’t be the problem! My email is working! I received a test email from my trusty SMTP plugin just fine!”
Irrelevant. Like a Spam score, SPF is only one point towards getting binned. The other is email content.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Registration emails not sending, while other notifications arehttp://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-wordpress-not-sending-email-issue/
This link you posted contains misinformation. For example,
The most common reason for this is that your WordPress hosting server is not configured to use PHP mail() function.
Except WordPress doesn’t use the PHP mail() function, it uses PHPMailer. From class-phpmailer.php:
if ($this->smtp->connect($prefix . $host, $port, $this->Timeout, $options))WordPress goes directly to localhost on port 25 via SMTP.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Registration emails not sending, while other notifications areRead WordPress emails are sent but not received
Bottom line is this is probably an email setup issue. Using Mandrill is one solution. Or verify that your SPF record matches your SMTP server, and fix it if it doesn’t.
You can verify the email is being sent out by WordPress by looking in the Email Log of Postman.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] 5.5.1 Error: authentication not enabledYour mail server is telling you that it wants authentication – that means sending it an account username and a password.
smtp:none:plain://smtp.numero899.com:25
But you don’t have authentication enabled. You could trying using the Wizard to setup Postman if you’re not sure what the email settings mean.
Hi @glo-1
but the send from always ends up being my envelope address whatever settings I put
If you check the session transcript, you will find that wordpress@xxx is being used as the From address/sender address.
What’s happening here is Google is changing the From address back to you when it receives the email. What you want to do is known as Email Spoofing and is generally frowned upon. For example, if you set your name and email address to mine, and send a message to my mom, she will think it’s from me, and that’s phishing.
However! If you can prove you own the sender address (wordpress@xxx) Google will allow it. See Gmail Help: Send mail from a different address or alias.
Reference: https://wordpress.org/tags/send-mail-as
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] All emails working except site registrationOh, I misunderstood you. You wrote
the username and password email is never sent.
Postman shows the emails being sent
If Postman says it was sent, then it was sent. Your email is probably misconfigured. Read WordPress emails are sent but not received.
I’ve been a mail server admin, so I know the plethora of problems email brings.
You should be familiar with SPF then. Is your SPF record set correctly for the SMTP server you are using?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms] Receive no EmailsThat is not the case whit me i have it set up the correct way
Post the domain name of your email and we’ll see if that’s true.
FYI @rbarnes305, this plugin, and Easy SMTP and Mailbank and most of the others on here all use PHPMailer underneath. PHPMailer is what handles the encryption. Not the plugins.
There are a few plugins that don’t use PHPMailer, they are Postman (Zend), Cimy (Swift), WP Mandrill (Mandrill API) and SendGrid (SendGrid API).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Ports now closedSucks. You can use the Gmail API over port 443 or, if you don’t use Gmail, download the 1.7 early beta and use the Mandrill API or SendGrid API over port 443. A Mandrill or SendGrid account is required to manage your current domain’s email.
You have to trust that the plugin does what it is supposed to when you set it to use SSL (SMTPS) or TLS (STARTTLS).
If you are worried about your account password moving around the Internet, create an account at Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo and switch from passwords to OAuth 2.0. OAuth 2.0 access tokens are changed every ten minutes and are easily revocable.
I say refuse because it is such an easy problem to solve…
It can actually be fairly complex to solve because everyone’s email is different. An SMTP plugin is a good first step. If it still doesn’t work, give this is a read: WordPress emails are sent but not received.
You are not alone… https://wordpress.org/tags/email-not-received
FYI, @vansite, all email is SMTP. PHP Mailer is an SMTP transport.
PHP mail(), which is what I think you meant, is also SMTP but hardcoded with options localhost and port 25. Like Sendmail.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] using third party email server[“ErrorInfo”]=>
string(35) “SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.”An authentication error mean Google refused your name and password as a valid combination.
Either
- Your name and password is wrong or
- Google disabled your password auth capability due to suspicious activity and you’ll have to use an app that supports ‘Google’s security standards’ – i.e. OAuth 2.0
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Postman SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Test email errorATLAS [Home directory didnt exist: 543150,
/websites/123reg/LinuxPackage25/no/uv/it/nouvita.co.uk/public_html]You’ll have to ask the ‘server guys’. I can’t help you with creating home directories on your server.