Sending mails from WordPress is pretty straightforward, using wp_mail. The tricky bit is receiving mail. You could probably achieve this by hijacking the method that WordPress has to post by mail. In that code you see this line: do_action( ‘wp-mail.php’ ); This allows you to take over the posting process. So, in stead of posting … Read more
Run PHPMailer function after ajax function completes that adds row to custom table
By default wordpress uses $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] variable to get your current hostname. You have two filters available in wordpress to change from name / email: add_filter(‘wp_mail_from’, ‘[email protected]’); add_filter(‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘username’);
You can write your own wp_mail function that will override the core one and in your own function you can enqueque emails, and then dequeue them and send them with wp-crom events. Managing the queue is not trivial but should be doable. But the easier path is to use an external service that has an … Read more
I noticed that require(), require_once(), include() and include_once() methods were somehow not working. The files that were called using these methods were not being called and the code stopped executing forward from this point. After a lot of Googling and R&D I didn’t find any solution to making the above methods work. So I decided … Read more
PHPMailer – Uploading a file
Are you looking for this SVN depot ? https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-mail-smtp/tags/
It’s pretty obvious from the log entries you posted that this isn’t a WordPress issue. I’d suggest working with your hosting provider to resolve the issue.
I found the “issue”. I had another mailing provider (Postmark) installed as a plugin, which I brought in my local site by mistake. That prevailed over any other mailing configuration. I deactivated the plugin and now my hook works fine.
The main issue wasn’t with any of the server or the backend, the issue was with the function itself, mainly the parameter PHPMailer. For some odd reason, you need to use PHPMailer/PHPMailer/PHPMailer or use PHPMailer/PHPMailer/PHPMailer at the top of the functions.php file.