php mail() function

  • My WordPress admin email stopped coming through a couple of weeks ago. My webhosting support has told me that I need to do the following:

    Please added following line to your php scripts that contain php mail() function:

    ini_set(‘sendmail_from’, ‘user@domain.com’);

    where ‘user@domain.com’ is mail address specified as From: address for your php mail sending.

    Help? Which files contain the php mail() function? Where would I add that line?

    Any help is appreciated… I am not a php programmer!

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Try this plugin instead:
    https://just-thinkin.net/downloads/no-sender.zip

    If that doesn’t work and let you get emails again, then edit the plugin and change the ” to ‘user@domain.com’. This is the WordPress equivalent of what they told you to do.

    Thread Starter icash

    (@icash)

    This didn’t resolve the problem. Additionally, now when I try to post a test comment, it hangs the script. The comment ends up in the moderation cue, but as a commenter, the script hangs until a “CGI timeout error” is received.

    Turning off email notification in the options stops the comment script from hanging.

    Any ideas?

    Ok I just made a fix for this:

    https://www.andrewvos.com/?p=375

    hey!

    i face a similar problem.

    When a user registers, he receives email from www-data@……. not freeriderz@…. as I want to. The “www-data” comes from apache configuration – it`s the user/group in apache2handler. I cannot change it easily in apache configuration, so I wonder if there is a way to overcome this feature in wordpress. I tried no-sender and new user email setup plugins – no change.

    I use sSMTP to send it the mail to my providers mail server. I tried everything, but it allows me to change only the domain in the email adress, not the user.

    any ideas?

    anybody?

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