Mail Server Menu Save Changes Redirect To /wp-admin/options.php

This is the correct thing for the settings page to do. From the options.php file

* This file is also the target of the forms in core and custom options pages
* that use the Settings API. In this case it saves the new option values
* and returns the user to their page of origin.

Further down in the page it attempts to do a redirect to the referring page. Is it possible the referer isn’t getting set correctly?

fyi here is how wp gets the referer

function wp_get_referer() {
	$ref = '';
	if ( ! empty( $_REQUEST['_wp_http_referer'] ) )
		$ref = $_REQUEST['_wp_http_referer'];
	else if ( ! empty( $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ) )
		$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

	if ( $ref !== $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] )
		return $ref;
	return false;
}

I will check it out.

Thank you!

I’m also getting a similar problem.

WordPress 3.4.2
Postie 1.4.5

When I attempt to save the mail server settings on a brand new install, I get 403 error messages for <domain name>/wp-admin/options.php

I have an older Postie install on a sub-domain, setup a long time ago but updated to the current version for WordPress and Postie which is apparently working correctly but I haven’t attempt to reset the mail server settings in the sub-domain installation because I don’t want to break access.

Try accessing <domain name>/wp-admin/options.php directly. A 403 is a forbidden error, could mean permission issues.

Hi

Direct access to the /wp-admin/options.php page redirects me to the admin login page (I wasn’t logged in when I manually entered the URL) and then on to the options.php page giving me the list of options.

I don’t know if you would expect to see any Postie relate settings in the output of options.php but there weren’t any listed.

I think my issue was a permissions issue, it’s now been resolved by tech support at my web host.

I’m waiting to hear back as to what the cause was and I’ll post back here if I think it’s a relevant to Postie in general.

Thanks for letting us know.

I’ve heard back, they have disabled mod_sec for my entire account.