WP Easy SMTP Won’t Save Settings

  • Resolved timothydungan

    (@timothydungan)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve installed the plugin, but when I go to the setup page and click the SAVE button, nothing happens. It just reverts to same thing and I still get the same message that it needs to be set up. I don’t even know where it should be saving the settings in the database so I can go in and manually add them directly.

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  • Hello All,

    I just faced the issue for SMTP Password field. When I analyzed the code I found something wrong there. So, I replaced the code with this:-
    <input type='password' name='swpsmtp_smtp_password' value='<?php echo esc_attr( swpsmtp_get_password() ); ?>' /> at line 217 in easy-wp-smtp-admin-menu.php

    Hi @keonthemes and thanks for your report.

    More details would be nice though.

    Which issue you faced?

    Are you using the latest version of the plugin? Current version doesn’t have this code at line #217 in the file you specified.

    I recommend you to update the plugin to latest version first.

    I am using Version 1.3.3 of Easy WP SMTP & WP Version 4.9.1.
    Issue was that the saved SMPT Password not displaying in settings form.

    Since version 1.3.0, it saves the password in the database, but not displaying it on Settings page for security reason. It displays a gag instead. This is to prevent anyone with the access to Settings page from seeing your actual password in the page source code.

    So password field can only have two states after you saved the settings: empty (when no password is provided) or contains gag (#easywpsmtpgagpass#). Actual password is saved in the database and is being used with SMTP server.

    Can this be the case?

    Oh! Exactly, Thanks for the explanation. I thought that the password is not being saved to the database as each time I enter a password it turns out to gag (#easywpsmtpgagpass#). I thought this was causing the issue for mail service in my website.

    Thanks for explaining and sorry for confusion.

    I will add a little explanation text regarding password gag to the Settings page near password field so it won’t be that confusing.

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