email not sending

  • Everything seems to be working with the exception of the email sending when a new user registers. How can I check to ensure the functionality is there and functional?

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  • log out.
    register with new user/email.
    wait for email.
    Check to see if host has sendmail or php mail enabled.

    If you are hosting your server out of your house, your ip may be part of a blacklist that hotmail, gmail, and others have. This means that email from an ip bank owned by some ISP’s will not be accepted by the services, because of spam issues.

    To get around it, you can dowload a plugin called swift-smtp, and then open a gmail account and turn on pop email handling, and then use swift smtp to send through the gmail account.

    Since I host my server out of my house, it was the only thing that worked for me. The php mail function worked out of the box for me, but email was getting rejected by the destination smtp server because my ip was on a blacklist.

    Actually your email is probably being blocked because you’re not supposed to be running a mail server out of your home. Most ISPs block dyanamic IP addresses that are used to serve residental clients.

    migdal

    (@migdal)

    Hi!

    Did you solve this problem? I have the same one with my WordPress hosted on Godaddy.

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