Email notification of comments stopped working

i’m going to *bump* this as i’m having the very same problem. e-mail notification for comments was working fine just up until a few days ago. i’d love to have my comments e-mailed to me again. i’m hosted via cyberpixels.com if it matters. anyone know why it would stop notifing all of a sudden?

Similar (same?) issue.

I set WP to send e-mail to the admin if something is posted:
“Email me whenever:
* Anyone posts a comment
* A comment is approved or declined”

I (admin) do not get mail. Everything goes into a comment moderation queue whether I like it or not (toggling it off has no effect), so it would be good to have the option to get an e-mail to jog me to look at the queue.

WP 1.2.2 on OSX 10.2.8, with MySQL 4.0.15 and PHP 4.1.2

This is a new installation so I do not know if this is something which used to work.

hmm, after upgrading 1.2.1 -> 1.2.2 I have the same problem.
https://minimag.cz/dupe

I just wanted to chime in that this wasn’t working for me either for at least the past day when I was using 1.2.2 Mingus.

Today, I upgraded to the latest nightly 1.5-gamma 2005-02-07, and the same applies there as well.

It worked great before. *shrug*

*sigh* I’m sorry. Nevermind for me.

Problem solved.
There was a problem after hosting change.
I was edit functions.php at lines 1006-1008 and 1046-1048.
replace:

$message_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
. "$from\r\n"
. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"" . get_settings('blog_charset') . "\"\r\n";

with:

$message_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
. "$from\n"
. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"" . get_settings('blog_charset') . "\"\n";


This happened to me when I upgraded to 1.5. Mail is not being sent to me at all. Where do I look for problems?

Okay, I think I found the problem. I made the following changes to the /wp-includes/functions.php file:

Change this line:
return @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $more);

to this:
return @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

This cleared up my problem on WP 1.5.

I removed the $more argument as said in the post above, but I still don’t get any email when someone posts a comment. Please help a newbie.

I haven’t recieved any email since upgrading either, but with the help of people here i think that i might have narrowed it down to my host blocking it, or something.

Here is another config you might want to try (specify the From: to your admin email)
https://mosquito.www.ads-software.com/view.php?id=980

if all that fails try a basic php file with a mail command.
you can follow some of that in the thread i’ve been on:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=24981

I confirm that removing $more like rtilden said is working fine on WordPress 1.5 !

i had the same problem. took out $more and now it works

I had the same problem after upgrading to 1.5. I took out $more and it works! Thanks.

I’ve just downloaded version 1.5.1.3 and I can’t get it emailing me with notification of new comments either. I looked for the line:

return @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $more);

…in functions.php and it’s not there.

Any other ideas as to what might fix this? Is it likely to be a host problem?

I am having the same issue on 1.5.2. I don’t get email when comments get posted, and the return @mail(…); line doesn’t exist in functions.php. Any help would be greatly appreciated.