dchawcroft

Well that’s that, then. All’s well that ends well.

Thanks again.

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Yep. I’ll copy your remarks to my host.. they might take some notice and help out others in future – you’d think they’d be keen to, wouldn’t you, how many hundreds of wordpress blogs will attempt to get up on their servers?

Actually I caught it early – I got a complaint – there’s only one registrant that I know of. I can get back to that one. Perhaps I can change passwords? No? Well delete and restart.

I was told by my host after their investigation that they could see new registrants had been registered but emails had not been sent – when I looked I failed to see any new registrants in there – apart from those I’d created myself. In particular I failed to see this new registrant the subject of the complaint.

So I’m doubtful that anyone else has tried to register, I’m doubtful that one did it properly, I’m doubtful that it sent emails prior to this – well I know it didn’t.

But it is all okay now. Using gmail is okay with me. No downside to that is there?

and thank you for your help, esmi – i rather think it is not the first time you’ve helped me.

regards,

dh

My domain host found that post, read it and read further. Read the posts pointed to in the six and five year old thread where they talked about a bug amongst a whole scad of other things. Told me they reckon it is a wordpress bug.

Six years old? They don’t have it sorted yet? I should follow all these five/six year old directions trying to make it work?

Well… IT WORKED! Grouchy old bugger that I am. I used that wonderful smtpconfigure plugin and after failing with smtp localhost connect I used gmail and now it is functioning.

Now – should I start a new thread? – what do I do about the person/s that have already opened accounts and had passwords sent to them that they never got and which I don’t know, can’t access?

Delete their accounts?