Postie plugin stopped recognizing valid users

  • Resolved sstowell

    (@sstowell)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Emails to postie mail account used to work, but now it fails to recognize & parse the email headers with the following notification in the subject line:
    Corvidae Press: Unauthorized Post Attempt from
    No “from” content in the above & debug shows: Postie [debug]: No ‘from’ header found

    I tried this: Deactivated then Uninstalled Postie. But when I reinstalled Postie, all the settings were already configured so … this may not have cleared up any problems there. Still fails.

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  • Thread Starter sstowell

    (@sstowell)

    I deactivated 1.8.5 then renamed the Postie directory in plugins, then UPLOADED & extracted the older version you sent me the link to (1.7.32)
    In my site Plugins I Activated 1.7.32, and found all my settings in place: users all listed, etc.
    — although this is quite convenient for me, I AM NOT SURE THIS IS GOOD BEHAVIOR?

    Anyway now SUCCESS: Postie published the email I have been trying to post for days on every previous test. Format is terrible, but that is my problem ??

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    >I AM NOT SURE THIS IS GOOD BEHAVIOR

    Why not? I think you will find this is the way most plugin work.

    Thread Starter sstowell

    (@sstowell)

    I am ignorant of the ettiquette for WP plugins: I did not expect settings to be retained after uninstalling a plugin.

    For my continuing education: are plugin settings stored in the WP database?

    Thanks! Also have you been able to figure out the issue with the new version of Postie?

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    Yes, plugin setting are stored in the database. This is largely to support the upgrade process otherwise you’d have to set up all settings from scratch every upgrade.

    Thread Starter sstowell

    (@sstowell)

    OK, thank you!

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    1.8.7 has been released and should fix the issues when connecting via sockets.

    Thread Starter sstowell

    (@sstowell)

    OK! all seems well with Postie 1.8.7 using Socket: it now connects on my host & processed/published my quick email test: thank you!

    Did not try cURL.

    Thank you!

    Thread Starter sstowell

    (@sstowell)

    FYI I just noticed that the Postie success message for my test did NOT display the email subject line (of Test postie 1.8.7), but has empty single quotes:

    Your post ” has been successfully published to Corvidae Press <https://www.corvidaepress.com/wp/test-postie-1-8-7/&gt;.

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    Thanks. This will be fixed in 1.8.8 which will be released later today.

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    FYI as of 1.8.7 Postie uses the PHP stream based sockets not the optional socket feature. So everyone running PHP 5 should be able to use Sockets.
    https://php.net/manual/en/stream.installation.php

    Thread Starter sstowell

    (@sstowell)

    Good plan ??

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