brcvogt on "WP Mail SMTP not working in Wordpres 4.3.1"
Hi, I have installed WordPress 4.3.1. I have no other plugins installed except for Akismet. I installed WP Mail SMTP version 0.9.5. I would like to have my emails sent via SMTP, not with the default...
View ArticleJason Hendriks on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] Passwords in Plain Text?"
The SMTP protocol needs them in plain text (or Base64 encoded, which is practically plain text). @dragonflyeye use Gmail's OAuth 2.0 instead of passwords if this bothers you.
View ArticleLucian Capdefier on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] Save to mailbox?"
One great feature would be to have an option to make the sent emails be saved to Sent folder of the Mailbox of your desired server. A lot of people, I think, use this plugin to configure it with their...
View Articleconvertmedia on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] Company domain email addresses unable...
Hi, I'm using this plugin and when I enter a company email address, such as info@convertmedia.com (also anything that ends in @convertmedia.com) for the "From Email" field, an email will not be sent....
View Articleeleuthardt on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] Test Mail Fail Port 587 Pushing through...
I have some working on 587, but most of my accounts I have had to use 465. Either way, they will require encryption.
View Articlebuzzingbee on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] Company domain email addresses unable...
Hi Jordan, Are you using Google Apps for Work to have Gmail accounts with custom email addresses (not ending in @gmail.com)? If so, here’s a couple things that might help: 1) Don’t use an alias...
View ArticleJason Hendriks on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] Company domain email addresses...
Allow Less Secure Apps > Turn on. Not cool. Use OAuth 2.0 instead. You're not opening up yourself to Spam. What you are doing is allowing your Google account password to be stored insecurely for...
View Articlebuzzingbee on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] Company domain email addresses unable...
^^ Nice!!! Thank you for the correction. I wasn't aware that OAuth 2.0 existed yet for a WordPress SMTP mailer. I'm going to check it out. Bravo Jason!
View ArticleOldGrumpyDE on "WP Mail SMTP not working in Wordpres 4.3.1"
Sometimes, Mailservers are configured to disallow mail sent locally via SMTP (for various reasons, ahem). Can you check if yourdomain.name and smtp.yourdomain.name point to the same server? If they do,...
View ArticleJason Hendriks on "WP Mail SMTP not working in Wordpres 4.3.1"
He said PHP mail() - i.e. SMTP on localhost to port 25 - does send email, so his mailserver is not configured to disallow mail sent locally via SMTP. His problem is trying to use SMTP on...
View Articlebrcvogt on "WP Mail SMTP not working in Wordpres 4.3.1"
I managed to get this working. The host gave me the SSL settings, I applied it and now it works. The only thing that I couldn't get working (but it is not an issue) is that when you leave out name and...
View Articlemtwdhs0001 on "WP Mail SMTP is not sending mail"
The emails are not getting to my gmail account when testing. Here is the send log: The SMTP debugging output is shown below: 2015-10-19 17:20:41 Connection: opening to mail.privateemail.com:25,...
View ArticleJason Hendriks on "WP Mail SMTP is not sending mail"
CLIENT -> SERVER: MAIL FROM: Your mail from is blank. Where's your from email address??
View Articleannealex on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] SMTP Error: Could not authenticate."
It was working, but now it's not. Can you advise? Thanks! The result was: bool(false) The full debugging output is shown below: object(PHPMailer)#359 (73) { ["Version"]=> string(6) "5.2.10"...
View ArticleJason Hendriks on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] SMTP Error: Could not authenticate."
["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...
View Articlerbarnes305 on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] WP-MAIL PLAIN AUTH"
How do I know that the smtp credentials are being submitted encrypted and not in plain text? 2015-10-19 22:15:03 SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN...
View ArticleJason Hendriks on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] WP-MAIL PLAIN AUTH"
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...
View ArticleJason Hendriks on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] WP-MAIL PLAIN AUTH"
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...
View Articlereedbird8 on "[Plugin: WP Mail SMTP] SMTP mail option stopped working within...
For whatever reason, my mail stopped working within the last week. Here is the debugging info. That said, if I switch to the PHP mail function, it resumes working. That said, I would like to diagnose...
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