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Further thoughts – Ithe mails to the ISP and Gmail addresses are being discarded because they are being sent by the user “nobody”, ie, the apache user. This is disabled on the server my blog is hosted on as it can make is easier for spammers to send e-mail.

People having problems should maybe check with their server admins if this is the case for them too. They should be able to use a domain-based e-mail box as the mail is never routed off the server.

As a matter of interest, would WP change the way that outgoing notifications are handled to avoid this situation? I know that I have no problems with PHP based packages like Gallery and SMF so presumably they are sending mail in a different way?

Edited to add: I’ve got around it using a plugin https://www.shiftthis.net/wordpress-swift-smtp-plugin/ I can now receive e-mail notifications at my Gmail account ??

I have just had the same problem. I don’t receive e-mail notifications to either my gmail account or my ISP account however I do receive them to my domain mail account. I really didn’t want to have to use domain-based e-mail but it looks like it’s the only way I’ll receive notification of comments. The missing e-mails don’t appear to be being trapped as spam, they just disappear into the ether.

codergurl – the following worked :
$post_date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s A', strtotime($myrow["post_date"]));
Thanks for putting me on to strtotime – that was just what I needed ??

Root – the whole point of the question is that I’m not using the data in WordPress!
codergurl – that seems on the right track but it displays all the dates as 07/25/2004 12:00:00 AM !

Thanks for that – I can see there are white spaces in the word list. What is the CVS and where do I find it? I love WordPress but find the WP site incredibly difficult to navigate and find stuff on.

I sorted it – thanks for all your help folks, the support here is stunning. Makes the documenation look good!

It has imported the comments they just don’t show up on my blog. I can view all of them in the Control Panel but when I click on the “view this entry” I’m told it doesn’t exist, when I click on “edit entry” I get an error. Is there a quick and easy way to delete the 600+ entries and associated comments I’ve just imported?