Google Apps and WordPress Mail

  • matthew2riches

    (@matthew2riches)


    15 years ago

    Ok people, I have been reading the forums for quite a while and information has been invaluable! Today I am stuck though so have just sent an account up on the forum to hopefully resolve a problem…….

    I have just moved to a new host, transfered WordPress and it is almost working fine. I have just realised that my email form isn’t working, comment notifications are not working and nor is the forgotten password link ??

    The server is using Cpanel and is running Redhat Linux. I have been in contact with the host and they said everything is working – no problems. But I am not too sure…

    If the contact form is filled in and sent to my Google account (Google apps running on my domain) the email will not arrive but soon as I change my delivery address to a Yahoo account – IT WORKS!

    To rule out any WordPress issues, I setup just a normal PHP form and using the Google mail address as the ‘send to’ address there is no reply but if I use my Yahoo address it works!

    So, the question is: what is happening? Why doesn’t it send to Google mail and it does send to Yahoo?

    Any ideas would help!

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  • You’ve explained very well. I have the same problem.
    I do not receive the mails from WordPress to my Google Apps email account.
    But if I configure another mail account (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) everything works like a charm.

    In my email account from Google apps do not get the messages of the following events.
    Notice for comment moderation.
    Notice of new subscribers.
    Visitors emails written using the contact page.

    I tried reinstalling the plugin Contact Form 7, but did not work.

    Please anyone can help.
    Thank you very much.

    Sorry, I forgot one very important detail:
    To date 02.10.2009, everything worked very well.
    I suspect the problem started when I upgraded to version 2.8.5 or 2.8.6 (can not remember)
    I currently have installed is version 2.8.6.
    Thanks again.

    Hello Friends:

    I think I found the problem, It’s in the Google Apps help

    I have a form on my website that sends emails to my account but does not work. What happens?

    If you have a form (using PHP / ASP / etc.) In your site that is configured to send a message to your email account from Google Apps, but not receive mail from it, makes the following findings:

    * Sends a message to your email account from a Google Apps personal email account not belonging to this application.
    * Modify the form to send mail to your Gmail account or other personal electronic not part of Google Apps.

    If you successfully complete both tests, it is likely that the problem is due to the settings for sending mail from your web server. Because your website and your email address share the same Google Apps domain name, the mail agent running on the server that hosts your website thinks that is responsible for mail that is sent to your domain name . It is a typical default configuration. When someone submits the form to your website, the mail agent recognizes your domain name and concludes that it should send the message to yourself. The mail agent will try to send the message locally.
    To resolve this issue, tells the mail agent running on the server that hosts your website is not responsible for managing the email on your domain. Please contact your web host for detailed instructions. If you host your own website, please contact the support team for your mail server software.

    Hi matthew2riches,
    Jus go to “Plugins” in your Administrator Panel, then click on edit –
    Search for wp_mail($to,……) Replace wp_mail to mail($to,…….).

    Am Using wp_mail_SMTP.

    As you can see on this topic the answer to this problem is simple.

    Log into your cPanel and hit MX Entry > Email Routing > Remote Mail Exchanger (instead of Local Mail Exchanger).

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