Error 404 When Check

I should note that I can use Postie and it works with my email settings just fine, but that’s done manually as Cron is disabled on the server.. I was hoping I could use this plugin as a workaround for that..

Hi! Sorry you’re having trouble with the plugin. What PHP version are you using? I’ve seen some other folks having trouble on PHP 5.2, which I’m hoping to fix in the next version.

Seeing a 404 is super weird. What URL does it try to load that gives you a 404 page?

Did you change your port when you enabled SSL? SSL usually requires a different port number.

PHP Version 5.2.17

the url is: wp-admin/tools.php?page=post-by-email&check_mail=1

and it shows the site header, menu and then:

ERROR 404

The page you are looking for does not exist.

As far as SSL, no I didn’t change it.. it works fine in Postie without using SSL so i don’t think that’s an issue..

Hello? Anything?

I’m looking into it. The issues with PHP 5.2 are myriad; I’m rewriting some things pretty significantly for the next release, which will hopefully make it less of an issue, but that won’t be done for a few weeks at the earliest.

Is there any chance you can update to PHP 5.3? That’s the easiest solution right now.

The reason I mentioned the ports for POP3+SSL is that “Error connecting to the mail server” message means something was misconfigured. When you enable SSL, you do need to make sure to change the port number (mail servers use different ports for secure vs. insecure connections).

Also, the following info would help me track down the problem–

WordPress version (e.g. 3.6, 3.7)
Post By Email version (hopefully 1.0.4b right now)
Mail server (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, hosted (which host?), self-hosted (what software))

Thanks.

WordPress is the latest version, whichever that is now.. I always keep my sites up to date with that as soon as the update comes out

Post by email version is the one there for download, unless you changed it in the past two days as I just downloaded it two days ago..

It’s my own mail server, or one of my sites mail servers really through GoDaddy.. has pop3 and impap it’s pop.securesever.net for the pop3 email (I set it up through one of my own sites for testing purposes to try and get post by email up and running one way or another)

as far as SSL, I don’t think it’s an issue as it works without SSL just fine using Postie plugin

as far as upgrading to PHP 5.3.. it’s a possibility but it’s not my site, it’s a friend of mine and I do the design and maintenance on it and anything else he needs like setting up post by email which I’m trying to do for him and all of the writers on the site..

I can see if he can get his host to upgrade him to PHP 5.3 though

Ok.. I got it updated to php 5.3.27

When I press check now I still get the error 404 sometimes.

But I usually get the ‘Please wait 5 mins’ message and it doesn’t grab the post.

I got it to work once all by itself, I didn’t press the check now button, it just did it automatically and it got the post from the email but it scheduled it and didn’t post it.

The scheduling isn’t a good thing as the site has a bug apparently where scheduling is concerned and I can’t figure out how to fix it. Scheduling just doesn’t work on the site, it always misses the schedule.

Right now I have two emails sitting in the mailbox and it’s not working to post them.

When I press Check now sometimes I get the 404 error and sometimes I get the ‘Please wait’ message..

I’m having the same issue on PHP 5.3.27 (WP 4.0):

Catchable fatal error: Argument 3 passed to Horde_Imap_Client_Exception_ServerResponse::__construct() must be an instance of Horde_Imap_Client_Interaction_Server, integer given, called in /nfs/c09/h01/mnt/189203/domains/urbanleague.ca/html/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Socket.php on line 3946 and defined in /nfs/c09/h01/mnt/189203/domains/urbanleague.ca/html/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Exception/ServerResponse.php on line 55

When I switch to 5.5.6 I get:

Strict Standards: Redefining already defined constructor for class SLT_LockPages in /nfs/c09/h01/mnt/189203/domains/urbanleague.ca/html/wp-content/plugins/lock-pages/lock-pages.php on line 59

Catchable fatal error: Argument 3 passed to Horde_Imap_Client_Exception_ServerResponse::__construct() must be an instance of Horde_Imap_Client_Interaction_Server, integer given, called in /nfs/c09/h01/mnt/189203/domains/urbanleague.ca/html/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Socket.php on line 3946 and defined in /nfs/c09/h01/mnt/189203/domains/urbanleague.ca/html/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Exception/ServerResponse.php on line 55

Using POP I only get “An error occurred: POP3 server denied authentication.” in the log.

This is using a GMail account with relaxed security.

Thoughts?

WP 4.0, pbm 1.0.4b, php 5.5
Website is https://www.hjcs.org, hosted on https://www.atspace.com
Gmail IMAP port 995.

Following is the result of clicking “Check Now”:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'Secure connections require the PHP openssl extension.' in /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.org/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Socket.php:522 Stack trace: #0 /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.org/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Socket.php(352): Horde_Imap_Client_Socket->_connect() #1 /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.org/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Base.php(738): Horde_Imap_Client_Socket->_login() #2 /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.org/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/class-post-by-email.php(493): Horde_Imap_Client_Base->login() #3 /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.org/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/class-post-by-email.php(255): Post_By_Email->open_mailbox_connection(Array) #4 /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.org/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/class-post-by-email.php(209): Post_By_Email->check_email() #5 [internal function]: Post_By_Email->manual_check_email('') #6 /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.o in /srv/disk2/1171911/www/hjcs.org/wp-content/plugins/post-by-email/include/Horde/Imap/Client/Socket.php on line 522

Update: The ugly fatal error occurs only if I use a mailbox that requires SSL. If I uncheck the “Always use SSL” then I just get a plain “Cannot connnect to (mail or POP3) server.”

Which is not quite so ugly, but it still DOES NOT WORK !!!!