wp-mail.php page is blank, no content

  • I am trying to setup posting by email – I have setup a pop3 account that I verify I can access via thunderbird, and I have transferred the connection info (server name, username and password) to the wordpress email posting setup page.

    I sent a test email through, but when I go to /wp-mail.php the page “thinks” for about 20 seconds then returns an empty page. I view the page source and it is blank.

    I do not have access to the php logs on my host so I can’t see what’s going on behind the scenes… Also, I have already “patched” the class-pop3.php file to strip out the periods, thinking it might be related, but it didn’t fix it.

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  • If it means anything to you I’m having the exact same problem. I’m sure it’s related but I can’t get the Postie plugin to work either. I’m running PHP 5.1 something. On my old wordpress blog email worked just fine and I was running a 4.x version of PHP. I think I’ve read that it is a PHP issue or something. Since I use my on Windows web server (no comments on that please) I think I am going to downgrade PHP and see if that helps. If anyone has any ideas monsterbucket and I would really appreciate it.

    Thread Starter monsterbucket

    (@monsterbucket)

    sci72 – since you’re rolling your own host, can you check the php error logs when you click on the wp-mail.php link and see what comes up? Knowing what’s in the logs might help decipher the problem.

    I set up PHP to log errors and then I ran the wp-mail.php file and got the following.

    [23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_adt.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_amf.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_haru.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_htscanner.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_imagick.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_mcve.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_pdo_ibm.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_pdo_sqlite_external.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_pspell.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_sam.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_spl_types.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext\php_uploadprogress.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in Unknown on line 0
[23-Sep-2007 14:39:17] PHP Warning:  Cannot open 'C:\PHP\extras\browscap.ini' for reading in Unknown on line 0

    It’s a lot of PHP extensions that weren’t part of the PECL download. I’m running PHP version 5.1.6 so maybe that’s the problem. I’m really not overly familiar with PHP (outside just installing it and the initial setup) so it’s hard for me to do detailed troubleshooting. I’ll try to see if I can find those extensions and see if that helps.

    Ok monsterbucket, I got it working. I went into the php.ini file and modified my extension calls. The only extensions I uncommented were ‘php_gd2’ (for Postie), ‘php_imap’, and ‘php_mysql’. Now it works like a champ.

    I had originally followed some online directions for the PHP install and had used their recommended extension config. This had me with a ton of referenced extensions and that must have been the problem. Once I got rid of that and just used the extension listing in the php.ini file as it starts out with uncommenting the above extensions it works fine.

    Hope that helps you out!

    Thread Starter monsterbucket

    (@monsterbucket)

    sci72 – congrats! I’m thinking that maybe the php_imap extension isn’t enabled then by my host. I’ve sent in a ticket to see if they’ll enable it, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed. If it is enabled then I’m thinking that maybe they have the 110 outbound port blocked on their webservers… that’s the port that fsockopen is using to connect to the mailserver.

    we’ll see…

    Actually in my previous version of the php.ini those three extensions where running, it’s just that so many other extensions where running that there must of been some sort of conflict. When I commented all the other extensions with the exception of those three then it worked. Now all I need to do is get email post notification working when I post via email ??

    do you still have problem on wordpress 2.3.1? I can not see the content, only the subject line. What can I do?

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