“There doesn’t seem to be any new mail.” & wp-mail.php

First, have you triple-checked the settings you defined for your blog-by-mail account in Options->Writing ? Can you log into your secret account using a regular email program with the username and password defined in your blog?

Second, are you sure cron jobs are working at all?

Third, you might give my WP-Cron plugin a try. It includes a wp-cron-mail plugin that uses WP-Cron to do everything that wp-mail.php does, but without setting up actual cron jobs on your host.

Yes, I can send email to my “secret” email account, & “yes,” I can read the email using Outlook Express.

After trying several things, I have now set WebPress to the following settings & in the following areas in hopes of a break through:

My Administrater/UserName E-mail is set to my “[email protected]”

My Options/General Options E-mail Address is set to my “[email protected]”

My Options/Writing Login Name is set to my “[email protected]” [Just setting it to my “SecretEmailAccount” without the “@my-domaine.com” added didn’t work either.]

My Options/Writing Password is set the same as my “[email protected]” password on my e-mail hosting server.

Executing
https://www.my-domain.com/blog/wp-mail.php
still reveals no test e-mails setting in my “[email protected]” account.

John

When checking the secret account from Outlook Express, have you configured Outlook Express to leave read messages on the server? If not, then the act of checking the secret account with Outlook Express will remove all messages from the mailbox, leaving it empty the next time wp-mail.php executes.

Yes, it leaves the messages, approximately 20 of them, still on the e-mail server.

I can log into the “secret” e-mail acount, log out of it, & log back into it again & again, & all of the test postings are still waiting on the wp-mail.php file to read them. Isn’t that the function of the wp-mail.php file, to read & subsequently publish the e-mail postings residing in the “secret” e-mail acount?

John

That is supposed to be what wp-mail.php does.

Do you have access to your webserver’s error logs? It might be that wp-mail.php is throwing an error, and sending it (correctly) to the error log file.

I’ll check.

John

The error logs from today are not available, but the ones from yesterday are & they do not reveal anything that would indicate WebPress is putting out an error message.

John

Hello
I am having pretty much identical problems to those oulined above by “eastjpo1”.

I have set up my “secret” email address. I can send emails to it which I can access either on the server or via Outlook Express. But when I run wp-mail.php in my browser I get the message:

“There doesna€?t seem to be any new mail.”

The cron job is set up and I am sure it will work correctly if it ever gets the chance.

I really would appreciate help with this if anyone has any ideas.

Thanks
Dave

ps Although I downloaded Worpress, I actually installed and upgraded it from the Fantastico script in cPanel ver 1.5.1.2

I do not receive this error when attempting to post by email, but I get the following error message:

Ooops POP3 connect: Error []

I am using a GMail account for posting. I can connect to it using the same settings in Thunderbird, but cannot using wp-mail.php
Is this because GMail requires SSL to be used?

Please help

Neil

I believe your problem is SSL, neildorgan. The stock wp-mail.php file only talks plain POP3, not POP3-over-SSL. Note that setting the POP3-over-SSL port in your WP Admin options won’t help, because I don’t see any SSL-related routines in /wp-includes/class-pop3.php.

make sure your email account name in wordpress includes your domain name, ie [email protected]
this is not clear in the docs, but must be there for it to work.

Thanks for your help skippy.
Anyone know of a good email service which doesnt use SSL, and doesn’t get much spam? (I don’t want Viagra adverts posted on my blog (Unless Pfizer pay me that is))

Neil

wp-mail.php includes a very rudimentary check to compare the incoming email address against registered users in the WordPress database. If the FROM: line in the email does not match a registered user’s email address, then the WordPress site admin is used to post the mail to the blog.

You could edit wp-mail.php to remove the admin portion of that check, so that if an email arrives from anyone other than a registered user, it will be silently discarded. Likewise you could edit wp-mail.php to require a specifc piece of text in the subject line of the email; and if not present the message will be discarded.

hi
i ve exactly the same issue….
no mail… but my pop account is good ;(

no solution?

I have similar problem. My E-mail will show up in my blog only if I execute the wp-mail.php file in the browser. Why is this? Is there something I could change in the code? PLEASE, PLEASE HELP…