Casey

This seems to be related to an issue reported on GitHub, specifically https://github.com/soup-bowl/wp-simple-smtp/issues/114.

I’ve historically not been able to replicate this particular issue, and relates to an unhandled use-case some plugins have of the phpmailer instance that then presents itself strangely to the logger, throwing the warning. You may also find viewing some items in the log will not show items in the right-hand column because of it.

Can you please let me know what plugin is dispatching an email that triggers the logged error? This will enable me to replicate the issue myself. Sadly this becomes a problem if the plugin is premium.

Thanks for reporting this. I’m glad to see you’ve been able to resolve it for your own environment, but likewise I’ve put this on the GitHub as a bug to investigate.

Thank you for sharing the information. The plugin does not suggest setup instructions to keep the nature of the plugin simple, and also due to the changing nature of SMTP services provided by mail companies. The suggestion will always be to check the SMTP providers configuration documentation before setup and test accordingly.

As Ximo’s reply has suggested, you probably need to provide an app password to use Gmail SMTP as opposed to your Google Account password, especially if multi-factor authentication is used.

The SMTP mail error is bubbled up from PHPMailer, not necessarily from the plugin. I’m not experienced with Gmail SMTP but there appears to be a guide here for using it, as well as Ximo’s reply.

Yes – intention is it stops emails being sent by overriding the mailer function. Generally yes, or just for disabling emails for a period of time e.g. an unexpected dispatch issue.

Fixed in version 1.3.3

This is some advanced level requirements and would go against the simple nature of the plugin. I would welcome a fork of the plugin that would add such a feature, but to keep technical debt low and keep the plugin simple, I won’t add this feature to the list.

It would seem like Dake’s reply to your request on their plugin provides a better alternative to this plugin that might suit you needs.

I’ve put this on the enhancement lists on GitHub (#147).

FYI, the password field is not displayed, so while an admin can see some details they do not have the complete set.

Curious as to what condition a user has administrative access but them seeing the SMTP server is a concern?

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Hello.

There’s two methods:
Main one is via the Settings > Mail, under Test Email.

Or for advanced users, via the WordPress CLI email-test command (--allow-root not needed, just for my development environment).

I mean edit that line to be log_service, rather than alongside, but both should work.

A quick patch for this is to open up settings/class-singular.php file of the plugin, and just below line 34 (protected $log;) add the following:

protected $log_service;

A mistake that went un-noticed on older PHP versions, glad it flags up now. Will look at fixing a patch to it when next available.

This was fixed by one of the plugin contributors – kebbet – in Version 1.3.1 of the plugin.

Glad you’re liking the plugin. Thanks for reporting this, I was also able to reproduce this bug so I’ve logged it on the GitHub page, so it should be looked into for the next release.

https://github.com/soup-bowl/wp-simple-smtp/issues/92

Hey @andraganescu

Not been able to nail it, but certainly will if I can. I think I misplaced the blame and looks to be an issue with caching instead (my only answer as to why GB and PHP don’t log anything), can’t see anything wrong with the amazing Gutenberg.

Ah good spot, apologies for this. The slug was going to be the what the text domain is set to now, but was rejected when I first uploaded the plugin. Unfortunately I’ll need to update all the text domain references throughout the code. If this affects your translations, sorry about that.

I’ll reopen create the ticket on GitHub to reflect this.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Casey.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Casey.