Installation worked fine but didn't send card

If you set smtp mail in wp greet options, then edit username and password of the mail account in phpmailer-conf.php in the wp-greet folder

If you use php mail let us know.

I did use smpt in the wp greet options. I did edit the username and password of the mail account in phpmailer-conf.php. This was all done before I submitted my question above.

Would it be better for me to use php mail then? If so, what do I need to change?

I forgot to say you also need to enter the correct servername (and it’s not always smtp.yoursite.com)

If you did that, and you’re sure your entered the correct info, then log in to your mailserver account to see if it sent the mail.

If you use php mail I think it should work out of the box, but I hear it’s not very reliable.

I have discovered that the card did indeed send (I used a gmail account) but gmail deemed it suspicious and did not let the email go through.

It wrote: “We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:”

Is there a workaround? It seems as if it would be fairly common to use a gmail account with your application.

What it does is send email on behalf of “sender email”. Did you try putting your gmail address as the static sender address and/or mailreturn path?

And see if there’s any whitelist in gmail.

Otherwise dig through gmail setup instructions, or wait for the plugin author to return ??

Tried that. Still got the suspicious login message and the message that it prevented the signin attempt. So these cards are rejected by aol and gmail as well as my own domain server. Where are they working?

Can you post the complete message from google. Normally below the text you mentioned there is a table giving the reasons for the suspect of google.
Most times it is the server which is known suspicious.

Someone recently used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account [ email redacted, please do not post those here ]. This person was using an application such as an email client or mobile device.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:

Monday, April 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM UTC

Location: Austin, TX, USA

If you do not recognize this sign-in attempt, someone else might be trying to access your account. You should sign in to your account and reset your password immediately.

Reset password

If this was you, and you are having trouble accessing your account, complete the troubleshooting steps listed at https://support.google.com/mail?p=client_login

Sincerely,
The Google Accounts team

I think this can happen if you entered the wrong credentials for smtp server access for gmail or if any other application tried to use your google account.

You should try resetting the google password, switching to php mail, send card, check if message appears again, switching to smtp mail, send card, check if message appears again.

If you do not need SMTP it maybe an option using php mail. The only difference is, you can send the images as an attachment only with SMTP mail. If you are sending links you can use php mail the same way.

I will try what you suggested, but without much hope. I carefully copied the same settings for gmail that I used to set up my Thunderbird account, so I know they work fine.

And when I tried to send from another email server, I got messages that AOL and Gmail wouldn’t deliver since they thought it was spam.

I took me a day to get the set up perfect, but then I finally figured out the trick, so you can imagine my frustration now that I can’t get the cards to send!

Just to make this clear. As far as I see this is not a problem of wp-greet but to special configuration issues at your site which may happen before and of course gmail is behaving sometimes very special without telling us why.

Would be interested in the result of your tests.

I have just discovered that cards are not actually being sent if I enablethe option ‘allow sending cards in the future’ and the user doesn’t enter a date. Now I have a bunch of cards logged as being sent, but not sent. Is there any way for me to send them manually?

Kathie

Oops, normally it should pick the current time as the sending date if this field is left empty. Can you give me you URL so I can do a test please.

Sure! The cards are at https://www.ccrt.net/greeting-cards-2/