When you’re using something like Easy WP SMTP, what you’re doing is configuring things so that wp_mail() sends using your validated SMTP account rather than the generic mailer on the web server. The a common confusion and misconception is that you are using SMTP OR wp_mail(). Actually what you’re doing is changing what wp_mail() is … Read more
Sounds like a server configuration problem, not a WordPress thing. You said you were using Rackspace? I don’t have personal experience with Rackspace but it appears that they have some known issues with the default PHP mail() function. See: http://feedback.rackspace.com/forums/71021-product-feedback/suggestions/1873281-fully-support-php-mail-function- http://www.joshuawinn.com/huge-email-delays-on-rackspace-cloud-sites-dont-use-php-mail/ The primary issue is that sending straight through mail() doesn’t authenticate the sender, using … Read more
phpmailer_init will always fire for every wp_mail() call – however, you can hook/unhook it conditionally like so: function wpse_224496_phpmailer_init( $phpmailer ) { // SMTP setup // Always remove self at the end remove_action( ‘phpmailer_init’, __function__ ); } function wpse_224496_wp_mail( $mail ) { // Example: only SMTP for emails addressed to [email protected] if ( $mail[‘to’] === … Read more
Congratulations, your Contact Form 7 and SMTP Configuration are correct so you are getting emails properly. Now coming back to your question: it is displayed as my own email : it is correct behavior because actually you are sending email to yourself 🙂 the sender email is never displayed. To view the persons name and … Read more
You didn’t say what the problem is. You certainly should be able to send email using PHP mail or plugins from wordpress. Is it a security problem? Your password being rejected at authentication? Try using OAuth 2.0. https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/ Is it a firewall problem? Are all the SMTP ports blocked? Try sending with an HTTPS API … Read more
Quite likely you’re using the wrong encryption/port combination. You are using port 465 for tls. Port 465 should be used for SSL Port 587 should be used for TLS
I am not sure where you else you would store the SMTP credentials? I am not comfortable storing those credentials in the Database because of the trouble you mentioned you could get into if they got out. Or putting them in a theme file. Like they mentioned in the other thread, if Apache gets screwed … Read more
First of all, if we take a look at implementation of wp_mail function, we will see that this function uses PHPMailer class to send emails. Also we could notice that there is hard coded function call $phpmailer->IsMail();, which sets to use PHP’s mail() function. It means that we can’t use SMTP settings with it. We … Read more
Let’s try str.split and str.join: Output:
a connection is required before login and sendemail.