disabled mail() function error and WAMP

  • I am running WP on a windows machine with WAMP for the mysql and apache server. My site views fine but when I try to send out user forgotten password ( at the login screen) I get sent to the page “your host may have disabled the mail() function” I have installed wpPHPMailer and that worked but my fMoblog acted up because it relied on the Mail() funct to work.

    I have read through the pages about getting sendmailm glob.com but I am at a loss as where to put the files it has. Do they go into the wamp folder into the php folder somewhere? I would really like to keep the fMoblog as I like the way it works.

    Maybe if someone can teach me how to get fMoblog to use the wpPHPMailer it would work.

    thanks
    hoyter

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Do you need WAMP? Would you be able to use XAMPP instead?

    https://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

    Thread Starter hoyter

    (@hoyter)

    That looks intresting. is that to run a “virtual server” to test scripts and plugins without them on the main site?
    I am not sure if I know enough php (very little, although I can read it) to play with the fmblog.

    I guess I need to install a mailserver somehow with smtp access on the server and somehow link it to the apache so that the mail() func will work

    EDIT: ok i see that that installs Mercury Mail Transport System with it. This is nice but I have the site working finally and dont want to have to redo the config of it.

    I will keep that in mind as it seems that it would be an all in one solution. Are there any major benefits of running it over wamp? (besides the mailserver)
    Thanks for any help you can give.

    Happy holidays as well
    ~hoyter

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    XAMPP is a full server environment, like WAMP. And, the guide that I linked to is for installing XAMPP and WordPress on your computer either as a test blog, or as a fully-functional online blog. I’m not familiar enough with Windows to list off the differences between the two, but if my memory serves me correctly, then I do believe that WAMP is based off of XAMPP.

    For me, I get the host may have disabled mail() function.
    What I did is go into php.ini and set the smtp server to a functional mail server. i.e. smtp.my-domain-name.com Email retrieval and other mail related function started working after. If you dont run your own mail server, you can try to use your ISP’s smtp mail server. However, your isp may not allow you to relay mail through their mail server. In that case, you are out of luck unless you run your own mail server.

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