Comments on: Configure SMTP v2.5 released

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:36:02 +0000

v2.7 of this plugin has been released. Please direct any questions or comments to the page announcing that release.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:35:08 +0000

Ross: As of v2.7, HTML entities will not appear in the “From Name” for emails.

Nayan: As of v2.7, the plugin now notes that setting the From email and From name will not always work, depending on your configuration and mail provider. It does not work when sending mail through GMail.

To others: if the test email gets sent, then sending mail through WordPress (with the configuration provided by this plugin) should work anywhere else provided wp_mail() is used.

By: Wredan

Wredan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:21:49 +0000

Works great to test, but when a users fills out the registration form on my site to create a user, no email is sent….

By: pr.nizar

pr.nizar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:50:14 +0000

After configuring Configure SMTP with my gmail account, the test worked perfectly but I’m enable to send mail using another plugin that’s using wp_mail().
Some help please?

By: Nayan

Nayan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:47:19 +0000

My FROM: email address is not changing. It shows the gmail email address used for setup instead.

wp_mail_from action not working some reason. Any ideas?

By: Srinath Sadda

Srinath Sadda — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:40:23 +0000

To: Scott, Ref: Devin;
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You mention that even if you don’t use “Configure SMTP” to tell WP to use another SMTP server to send outgoing mails, you can use CSMTP to tell WP what FROM: name and address to use when sending out emails.

My question is how? How do you setup the plugin to not modify any outgoing mail settings, but still tell WP which FROM: name and address to use?
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This mainly conflicts with “Contact Form 7″ plug-in. Can you please privde us a fix to this issue?

Thanks
- Sri

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:25:13 +0000

Update to previous comment – looks like you can’t use HTML entities in comments without them being converted back into their characters (sigh).

The “From name” now looks like “School P-&-amp-;-C” (remove the hyphens).

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:22:02 +0000

Hi Scott – thanks for the work on the plug-in. Finally updated from wpPHPmailer and all working OK.

One minor change I’ve noticed: previously with wpPHPmailer I could use an ampersand in the “From name” field (e.g. “School P&C”). Now it gets expanded to the the equivalent HTML entity & (e.g. “School P&C”) which just looks silly.

Is there a workaround – or perhaps an easy fix?

Cheers,
Ross.

By: PT

PT — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:30:33 +0000

I am using v2.5 and recently noticed an issue that prevented me from sending registered users notifications, such as when a new item is posted.

Directly beneath the “sender name” box is another entry line. There is no title to go with it and there was a “1″ on the line. By removing the “1″ my problem was resolved. What is that line for? Thanks.

By: Devin

Devin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:36:26 +0000

Hello,

You mention that even if you don’t use “Configure SMTP” to tell WP to use another SMTP server to send outgoing mails, you can use CSMTP to tell WP what FROM: name and address to use when sending out emails.

My question is how? How do you setup the plugin to not modify any outgoing mail settings, but still tell WP which FROM: name and address to use?

Thanks,
Devin