SMTP Mail: Unable to configure with XpertMailer (or any other mailer)

I thought this was more of an installation question than a plug-in question but I’ve been cut off in the installation forum so I’m reposting here with some additional information that I wasn’t able to post there in a second post.

I have tried everything I can think of to get any kind of mail working from my WordPress installation.

Here’s my setup:

Hardware: Dell desktop running Windows 7 Enterprise
Connectivity: Fairpoint DSL 3000/784Mbs
DynDNS host name tortui.net

Because my server is on a home computer, I’m assuming that using an smtp relay is the only practical way to accomplish the task. Since I have been using gmail for years, it seemed natural that I should configure gmail.smtp.com as my relay host.

I have set up mercury mail in the past and managed to get messages sent to an account that I created on my server but other smtp servers wouldn’t accept mail from my machine since I am using a dynamic IP.

I have gmail.smtp.com configured in Thunderbird on this box and have no problem sending or receiving gmail. I’ve tried to solve this problem using several different plugins and everything has failed. I am now trying to configure with the XpertMailer plugin. As usual all attempts have failed!

These are my XpertMailer settings:

XPertMailer Options
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( ? ) Mail delivery:
HostName/IP: Require Authentication ? Yes
UserName:[email protected] Password:****** Method: Detect
Port: 465 TimeOut: 10 Name: localhost SSL: TLS

( ? ) If mail delivery has failed, send mail to MX Zone ? No

( ? ) Log XPertMailer errors ? File: php.log

It seems like I should have something official for Name. I’ve tried tortui.net my domain name.

I hope someone can please help. I’ve tried off and on to get this to work for over a year!

Kor Kiley
Here is more info:

When I test my XpertMailer settings I get a wait symbol. I see waiting for tortui.net at the bottom left of my browser and under XpertMailer Options it says loading…

Here’s a log message:

[Thu Aug 27 21:35:59 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in C:\\server\\www\\tortui.net\\public_html\\wordpress\\wp-content\\plugins\\xpertmailer-advanced-php-mail-engine\\XPM4\\PHP5\\MAIL5.php on line 736, referer: https://tortui.net:8585/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=xpertmailer-advanced-php-mail-engine/XPertMailer.php