Some problems with sending mail with Wordpress

We wondered since a couple of days, why we are not receiving any emails anymore from our blog here. Usually we receive a couple of comments a days and thus it was strange that nothing came in.

Looking at the php.ini I saw that everything was setup correctly, but still mails did not get sent. Looking further we tried to configure sendmail and set the “smart_host” value. This is done by entering the correct SMTP-Server in the sendmail.mc file and using “make -C /etc/mail” to compile it (Note: remove the “dln” BEFORE the line. “dln” is a comment tag!).

In any case, after restarting sendmail, it still did not work.

So, after some time, I have found this wonderful plugin called “WP Mail SMTP”. With it, we can configure NOT to use sendmail, but instead use SMTP for sending mails. Furthermore, one can configure a different “from” address and much more.

Thank you for the plugin. All works now fine again (well, sendmail still does not work to send email).