Transition Technology: Ticket #805: Parrot: PHP mail function not sending email

chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:22:56 GMT

Other sites are sending emails fine, you should be able to test that your site can send email by asking for a password reset?

hours, totalhours changed

chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:30:36 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.25
totalhours changed from 0.0 to 0.25

I can't see any issues in the maillog, the error log for your site and I can't find the code you posted above via a recursive grep.

I created the following file at http://annesley.parrot.transitionnetwork.org/chris.php

<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'chris@webarchitects.co.uk';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email';
//define the message to be sent. Each line should be separated with \n
$message = "Hello World!\n\nThis is my first mail.";
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: annesley@annesley.parrot.transitionnetwork.org\r\nReply-To: chris@webarchitects.co.uk";
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>

Visited it and it sent me a email and there were no issues in the maillog.

Can you check you code?

chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:53:30 GMT

I also notice your site has the Disable Emails plugin installed -- could this be the cause?

Stop a WordPress website from sending any emails using the standard wp_mail() function. No emails will be sent, not even for password resets or administrator notifications.

hours, totalhours changed

chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:05:02 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.25
totalhours changed from 0.25 to 0.5

I have just checked (via http://brakertech.com/disable-enable-wordpress-plugin-command-line/) and found that the Disable Emails plugin is enabled -- I expect this might be the cause?

annesley — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:40:52 GMT

thanks chris! that solved it. impressively stupid of me :)

sorry to have bothered you there!

status changed; resolution set

annesley — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:41:06 GMT

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to fixed