Email broken after Auto Update to 6.3

  • I have a custom wordpress site running on a small Atom PC and Ubuntu. It has been up and running for about a year. Only about 3 months after I got it working after much googling and research I managed to use MSMTP to get the email to send me notifications of things going on with the site. This eliminated the neccesity for me to log into it regularly and check it for problems. I also had a plug in that allowed me to see the email log so that IF it did fail I would know.

    After the 6.3 update, I noticed that emails were no longer passing. It was a couple of weeks after the update that I noticed. It sent the update email but none of the others passed. I had made some small changes with the firewall and my spam filters on my email provider at the same time so I went back to my notes and reversed every one of the changes assuming that that would be the cause. Nope, it still will not send email. Some of my notes on the email changes were unclear, so just for double checking I also tried a different email account and attached it to the server. No change.

    I am at wits end. None of the emails are passing off the server and I had invested a pretty significant amount of time getting them to work in the first place. I don’t really have the funds to pay for some plug in to do the job on a reoccuring basis. I have a self hosted server BECAUSE I can’t really afford to pay for things like that.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • If I understand correctly, you used a server-side library called MSMTP to send emails? WordPress itself only addresses the server-side options, which is why it primarily depends on the server settings whether emails are sent.

    If you want to avoid this dependency on the server, I would recommend using the WordPress plugin WP Mail SMTP: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ – this allows you to send emails with authentication to an external mail server without much effort with settings on your own hosting server.

    Thread Starter jphogannet

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    That plug in requires a subscription, as I stated in my origional post, I do NOT have the budget to give someone more than hosting would cost me to send a few emails using smtp servers that I am already paying for. Is that it? Is WordPress blocking my solution so I will pay a plug in provider for the privilege of sending mail? There has to be a free solution. I had it working but the update broke it. I went back through the process and everything is still working it just refuses to send, I guess because the update is blocking it? PLEASE do NOT reply with solutions that require payment. I am NOT in the market. This is a personal site with NO budget for anything. I struggle to keep the lights on and the internet burning. If my server were to die, the site would go dark until someone gifted me a new machine. I am on disabilty and the only currency I have is time. I can absolutely invest time in fixing settings, if I know what they are. But, as far as I can see everything is set, WordPress 6.3 simply won’t do email outside the plug ins. Maybe a better solution is to tell me how to downgrade my server back to 6.2 so I can resume working as it did. Is that my solution? Just wipe the server, start over with a downloaded copy of 6.2 and NEVER allow it to update?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    I’ve used that plugin on a number of sites; it’s free. If you don’t like that one, there are several others: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search/smtp

    Thread Starter jphogannet

    (@jphogannet)

    It most certainly is NOT free I actually tried it before I went through the 3 months travail to make it work without a plug in. It requires payment for either the plug in, or it will work only with certain paid smtp accounts which I do not have. The one I do have requires a subscription which is SUBSTANTIAL outlay for a couple of emails every other month.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Another option is to use Ubuntu to route your mail through an external SMTP server. With sendmail, this is done via a SMARTHOST configuration; I’m not sure how it’s done with other MTAs.

    I have been using WP Mail SMTP on several dozen websites, some of them free of charge, for years. I don’t know why you are forced to buy it. I have never experienced anything like this. It works perfectly free of charge even with free SMTP services like Gmail, GMX, Yahoo … In the simplest case, you simply set up your own e-mail box there for sending. If you have questions about this, I would recommend their support forum.

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