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No, let’s report bubblymaiko for being an asshole of a user. If you check out his/her user history, all he/she’s done is bitching about plugins. If something doesn’t work, instead of being polite and open a constructive discussion, this person bash developers.

Okay, some progress was made.

I installed this plugin called WP Mail SMTP. This plugin reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail(). Anyway, there was still some hurdles to jump with this plugin as well. For example, email sending might not work at first with this plugin activated either and would get a “SMTP Error: Could not Authenticate” error. I was using gmail’s SMTP settings. In that case, I had to change some settings in my Google account. See this answer on how to do that.

After all that’s done and dusted, the MailChimp extension worked! The email gets sent almost immediately and it took a minute or two to update the subscribers list in MailChimp.

Will jeep searching for how to do this without SMTP still though.

Okay I updated the plugin to the latest version and there’s good news and bad news.

Good news is that, the never-ending loading indicator issue is gone. Bad news is, now I get this error message and the email still doesn’t get sent over to MailChimp.

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Thanks. Please do. There was a new update for this plugin today. I updated it but unfortunately the issue still persists.