14.7 email not being received

Try setting the from email as [email protected]

Interesting that worked.

Thanks

It doesn’t work for me ??

actually it quit working, but now have it working again. I and to switch to wp-smtp-email and setup and actual email account in the DH hosted site that I am using. So now the emails work again.

@wprw62 if you want it to work more often than “sometimes” you need to set an MX record and an SPF record in your domain’s (emotionallyfreetobe.net) zone file. right now you have neither. switching from one password-based SMTP plugin to another password-based SMTP plugin is not going to solve your problem. i don’t know who you are using for an SMTP server, but make sure you are connecting with authentication.

DH had me use mail.emotionallyfreetobe.net as my smtp which is authenticated. The only issue I have now is the message is not coming through the email. I do see the message in the tracking that a I turned on. There is a MX record however I don’t see a place to create a SPF record.

I don’t see a MX record, which means the Internet doesn’t see it:

Jasons-Mac-Pro:plugins jasonhendriks$ dig mx emotionallyfreetobe.net

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> mx emotionallyfreetobe.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64298
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;emotionallyfreetobe.net.	IN	MX

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.1#53(10.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar  7 13:35:16 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 41

An SPF record is the generic TXT type. Google has a list of how-to’s for the most popular domain registrar’s: https://support.google.com/a/topic/1409901

Actually there is no mx record. Since I am receiving the emails does that mean there is an MX record in use?

The message header has this: Received-SPF: none (domain of emotionallyfreetobe.net does not designate permitted sender hosts)

That link is pretty specific to Google. Who is DH? DreamHost? Try this:
https://wiki.dreamhost.com/SPF

Received-SPF: none

That says you have no SPF (permitted sender hosts) defined. This increases the chance of your email not reaching its destination, for example to a Gmail recipient, or being flagged as Spam.

Actually there is no mx record. Since I am receiving the emails does that mean there is an MX record in use?

No, it means the servers that delivered your email fellback to the A record.

Jasons-Mac-Pro:plugins jasonhendriks$ dig a emotionallyfreetobe.net

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> a emotionallyfreetobe.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22075
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;emotionallyfreetobe.net.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
emotionallyfreetobe.net. 14399	IN	A	173.236.229.141

Update: The simplest SPF definition is “v=spf1 mx” … and that requires an MX record. You could always define an SPF record for a specific IP, though, so an MX record is technically not required.

Added SPF record

here is what I get for dig:

Gumpys-MacBook-Pro:~ gumpy$ dig spf emotionallyfreetobe.net

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> spf emotionallyfreetobe.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14233
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;emotionallyfreetobe.net.	IN	SPF

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
emotionallyfreetobe.net. 14400	IN	SOA	ns1.dreamhost.com. hostmaster.dreamhost.com. 2015030701 21383 1800 1814400 14400

;; Query time: 76 msec
;; SERVER: 209.18.47.61#53(209.18.47.61)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar  7 14:07:38 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 105

It’s “dig txt” not “dig spf“.

Jasons-Mac-Pro:plugins jasonhendriks$ dig txt hendriks.ca

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> txt hendriks.ca
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hendriks.ca.			IN	TXT
;; ANSWER SECTION:
hendriks.ca.		3599	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all"

Ok so I should get an answer section back. I will change the SPF value to your example all I had was SPF per the wiki