Hosting WP w/ wp-phpMailer – Yahoo Mail blocks user registration email?

  • timjamz

    (@timjamz)


    18 years ago

    I am working on hosting (myself) a simple WordPress blog (excellent work by all involved in WordPress, I must say), and I am running into a bit of trouble. It seems I have everything working, but I am unable to receive user registration mail under a Yahoo mail account. Works fine with my ISP email account, but I don’t get the mail at my Yahoo account so I am wondering what I’m missing.

    I have searched extensively and tried the common repairs (i.e. mail header “from” info tweaks in the php ini/scripts, etc.)… still no go to Yahoo (junk/spam folder either).

    Before I spend a bunch of time registering “test” email accounts all over the place, I thought I would ask the experts (you). ??

    Background:
    6Mb/512Kb DSL service
    W2K server (all patched up)
    IIS(W2Ksrv standard), MySQL5.0.27, PHP5.2.1
    WP2.1.2 w/ wp-phpMailer plugin

    Successful email header sample (editted for content):
    https://storytribe.net/headersample.txt

    In editting the file, I noticed that the Reply-to: field in the header is blank… ? I have set the mail plugin to force the hard-coded “from” address and name, so I am not sure why this is blank. wp-phpmailer.php references an “AddReplyTo” function, and it looks like it is set up right (I am definitely not a scripting guru, so….). Is this possibly what is causing my problem? Does Yahoo maybe see this blank field as masking and knock down the mail as spam?

    If so, any ideas how I could fix it?

    Help!!!

    Thanks. ??

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  • Thread Starter timjamz

    (@timjamz)

    Hooray! I solved my own problem.

    For anyone who is searching for a solution to this problem, try checking the wp-phpmailer plugin SMTP settings. I set the SMTP server name to my ISP’s server (vice my own internal SMTP server), and that fixed my problem.

    Can you tell me the exact settings that you put in wp-phpMailer plugin? Also, how did you

    set the SMTP server name to my ISP’s server (vice my own internal SMTP server)

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