I am currently converting a client booking system I created into a WordPress plugin. It uses the PHPMailer library to send emails. I am using SMTP security to send the emails and thus need the email account and password. I am currently encrypting the passwords in a database and decrypting them when I need them. … Read more
I just want to setup SMTP for a specific instance of wp_mail(). I have tested plugins like “Easy WP SMTP” and also checked how to set up SMTP manually but all these apply to the entire site and then every email from the site is sent through the SMTP account. I don’t want to send … Read more
I have the plugin Easy WP SMTP installed and there I have configured sending my WordPress mails with SMTP. I send emails with a cronjob to my users with the wp_mail() function. I was asking myself, if the emails are sent with SMTP or do I need to add this functionality to wp_mail()? If yes, … Read more
I get the following error whenever a user tries to request a password reset email: The e-mail could not be sent. Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function. As per recommendations I’ve read across the web, I tried several SMTP plugins. None worked. Finally, I got some debug information from one. First, … Read more
I’m sending mail from Jenkins to an anonymous SMTP relay internally. That relay then securely sends mail to exchange online via TLS on port 587. The transport works perfectly, the issue is that Microsoft requires the Sender address match the authentication credentials login name which is the same as the account email address. For example … Read more
Is there a conditional check I can run for phpmailer_init or a wp_mail parameter that let’s me apply my custom phpmailer_init SMTP settings only on specific wp_mail actions or does phpmailer_init always run sitewide? 1 Answer 1 phpmailer_init will always fire for every wp_mail() call – however, you can hook/unhook it conditionally like so: function … Read more
For some reason neither the accepted answer nor any others work for me for “Sending email in .NET through Gmail”. Why would they not work? UPDATE: I have tried all the answers (accepted and otherwise) in the other question, but none of them work. I would just like to know if it works for anyone … Read more
I’m getting this error: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure. whenever I try to send e-mail using Gmail’s SMTP server in my C# code. Can someone point me to the right direction for a solution to this problem? The following is the stack trace… at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendAuthResetSignal(ProtocolToken message, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest, Exception exception) … Read more
After much searching I couldn’t find out how to use smtplib.sendmail to send to multiple recipients. The problem was every time the mail would be sent the mail headers would appear to contain multiple addresses, but in fact only the first recipient would receive the email. The problem seems to be that the email.Message module … Read more
These ports 465 and 587 are both used for sending mail (submitting mail) but what is the real difference between them? 6 Answers 6
