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  • November 16, 2011 at 7:00 am #1630

    philipjohn
    Subscriber

    Hiya!

    My dev sites aren’t sending e-mails out. Any ideas why this might be or what I can check?

    Thanks,
    Phil

    November 16, 2011 at 2:04 pm #1650

    Stephen Carroll
    Key Master

    Hi Phil,
    This can be a bit complicated with ports and varying email server connection details, but I’ve just posted some simple instructions to get it working with gmail. Let me know if it works for you:

    http://serverpress.com/news/enabling-mail-on-windows/

    One thing to keep in mind is that some email servers are a bit temperamental and may require that your email sender address match the sendmail configuration. Meaning, you may wish to set the email address for your WordPress notifications inside WP’s admin menu Settings -> General to match the address in sendmail.ini

    November 17, 2011 at 2:43 am #1686

    philipjohn
    Subscriber

    So simple and straightforward, thanks – worked perfectly!

    Upgraded to the full version yesterday btw. Loving it!

    February 28, 2012 at 12:35 pm #3814

    Clifford
    s2Member Level 1

    I have gmail and Win7 64-bit. I tried Contact Form 7 and the contact form submitted successfully (green bar around the success message), but I never got the test email. Here is my sendmail.ini…

    # Example for a user configuration file

    # Set default values for all following accounts.
    defaults
    logfile “c:\xampplite\sendmail\sendmail.log”

    # Mercury
    #account Mercury
    #host localhost
    #from postmaster@localhost
    #auth off

    # A freemail service example
    account GmailTourKick
    tls on
    tls_certcheck off
    host smtp.gmail.com
    from myemail@gmail.com
    auth on
    user myemail@gmail.com
    password mypassword

    # Set a default account
    #account default : Mercury
    account default : GmailTourKick

    February 28, 2012 at 10:06 pm #3815

    Stephen Carroll
    Key Master

    Hi Clifford,
    Did you still need assistance with this item?

    http://serverpress.com/news/enabling-mail-on-windows/

    Regards,
    Stephen

    February 29, 2012 at 5:04 am #3816

    Clifford
    s2Member Level 1

    It works now. Thank you for emailing me that sample file.

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