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Thanks drmike, I knew it had to be something simple…

Now.. due to some bad administration on my part, mail server configurations got rather out of shape.. as for why it was sending half of some mail, and not the rest, I don’t quite understand. Having looked through logs, it seems the way that mail was being sent was being accepted by some places, and not others. SO, advice to others with such problems… check your mail servers are doing what they should be.. lol ??

Again, thanks drmike… now do I feel dumb.. :-S
LIFE SHALL GO ON.
Thanks WordPress support..

Chances are you found one already. For others reading this with the same question, the best one I’ve found so far is PJIRC. I’ve incorporated it into my WordPress site using a non-WP php file, and some javascript to open it in a new window.

Just thought I’d add a little more detail. This is all running on a Debian Linux server using PHP 5.1.6-4, and Apache2. No errors appear to be arising from the mail command, and from what I can tell, it’s sending all emails. The problem doesn’t appear to be wordpress itself (although it’s possible that I missed something in the format of the email itself), rather something between the mail() function in PHP, and the sendmail command? It just seems rather peculiar that half the emails are sending, and half aren’t – and it seems to be always the same ones in each group.

I’ve had this problem on my newly installed WP’s. Install, and WP sends standard ‘admin’ login email. Good.

New user signs up, sends admin notification email. Good.
Sends user password email – not received.

New user attempts password recovery. “Email sent successfully” – not received.

I’ve traced through the entire registration process as far as email sending, as well as the password recovery process, and I can’t make any sense of why it works for half the processes, and not the other. This is problem is always the same – always sends the admin notifications of new users, but never sends anything else (even for admin password recovery).

WordPress is telling me it’s version 2.0.5. If I can offer any more assistance in finding the bug, let me know ??

Edit: On a quick review of my 3 WP’s, the first is a sub.domain.com/, the other 2 are sub.domain.com/dir. the first is as described above, the 2 in directories appear to send recovery and new user emails and to admin, but nothing else appears to be working. (Update may follow, if emails come through slower than I’m used to ;-))