scriptygoddess

Same project I just mentioned below - something funky was going on with Wordpress not sending emails. I had a server admin looking at the server and I’d submit a comment on the corporate blog and no emails would get sent. I even tried using a plugin that forced wordpress to use SMTP, still would not send emails from the blog.

I found on the support forums where someone mentioned a hack to get Wordpress to use sendmail. In wp-includes folder open the file pluggable.php. Around line 362 is the following:

// Set to use PHP's mail()
$phpmailer->IsMail();

Change that to:
// Set to use PHP's mail()
//$phpmailer->IsMail();
$phpmailer->IsSendmail();

As soon as I did that - voila - it started sending emails.

(yes, I know, I’m modifying core code again. Tell me how to make this a plugin and I will!)

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