I'm using vagrant which uses ubuntu to serve my Wordpress website. I simply want Wordpress to be able to send mails somehow. This is because I want to test email forms. Is there any way to do this? And how can i do this?
You can either use a tool like MailCatcher and configure your wordpress installation to use its SMTP server — it comes with an email viewer —, or use a simple tool like ssmtp which will relay your requests to an actual mail server — like GMail.
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I have issue with sending mail to users when they register and submit for reset password as well
The error shows
the email could not be sent. possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function.
Set SMTP settings in WP configuration, don't use mail() function.
And here you should configure your SMTP(gmail account for example):
More here: https://www.anphira.com/wordpress/fix-wordpress-mail/
Its can be a server side issue, Im also having this problem on webmin virtualmin but the best way to fix if your mail server not working fine you can take a look on postman smtp plugin its perfect and working good on all Wordpress sites.
I am using WooCommerce with Wordpress and I want to view the emails that get sent out when an order is complete on my localhost development environment.
I have the program Fake SMTP Server setup to listen at port 25 but no email appears to arrive within the app?
Any ideas what this could be - I am using a recent installation of XAMPP
Mailnest.io should work for you
I'm not sure why Fake SMTP wouldn't be working for you. Might I suggest giving MailSlurper a try. Local mail server, web-based interface. Full disclosure - I am the author of MailSlurper.
For anyone else looking to use test email in WordPress please take a look at Imitate Email (it is one of my projects).
Free to get going, tested with WordPress and a 1 line JS will drop it in to your WordPress site so that you can see test emails as you work on WordPress.
From what I've gathered, mail won't work offline using WAMP unless set up. So right now I have users that aren't activated. I'm not able to log in(or register) to wordpress as a registered user to create a specific additional functionality. Is there a way to get around this without taking it online?
Additionally can you collect more information from a registered user via additions to the form? How much access do you have to this information? The end goal is to try and keep specific information only visible to certain registered users. Only registered users that I allow would have access.
The Online/Offline of WAMPServer only changes the access allowed to Apache
Online = Apache accepts access from any ip address
Offline = Apache only accepts connections from the local PC i.e. the one running WAMPServer
The reason you cannot send emails is that Windows does not have a mail server installed by default like a *nix system. If you want to send emails you have to install some sort of email server that PHP can pass emails to.
There are a number that you can use :
I prefer hMailServer but it is a little complicated to configure unless you understand a bit about mail servers
Alternatively you could try fake Sendmail for windows
I need to send mails from my VPS hosting a wordpress website, the outgoing mails are mainly for new users registrations and I cant find a sigle guide out there.
You can follow this guide to setup email service on Ubuntu if your VPS doesn't have it
http://jonsview.com/how-to-setup-email-services-on-ubuntu-using-postfix-tlssasl-and-dovecot
But usually if your VPS have Control panel like Plesk,cPanel ..etc... Just simple create a new email account and using it
You can also install this plugin to wordpress (optional). If you want send mail via SMTP
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
I'm using the Acquia stack on my localhost (running Vista) and am trying unsuccessfully to send emails. I want to send them via Gmail, and have tried all sorts of settings in the php.ini file. There are no error messages, but no email is delivered. I've gotten no response on the Acquia forum, so I was hoping someone here might be able to help. Thanks very much.
You need http://drupal.org/project/phpmailer or http://drupal.org/project/smtp because you need to authenticate to Google's SMTP.
If you have access to the server your hosting on you can use MSMTP to completely bypass the internal mailing system (sendmail) and use your external provider at the system level. There's a tutorial on it here:
http://floatsolutions.com/blog/2009/12/avoid-complicated-sendmail-setup-using-msmtp-sendmail-emulator/