Email problems with Wordpress Plugins
Moving everything to Wordpress has been different I guess you would say. I have had to edit many plugins to get this thing to work correctly and recently I had to edit even more to get some simple functionality. I am in no way knocking Wordpress, it is just that most plugins are originally developed for the developer and eventually get released to the public. This makes the occurance of bugs a little more common. There are a couple scripts which shall remain nameless that caused problems with my current setup. The reason was that IIS6 seems to have trouble with email addresses that have < and > in them.
Example Header
From: Peter Manis <notgonna@tellyou.com>
So you have to remove the name and the < and > to get it to work. However this seems strange to me because I remember formatting my email in asp that way. It has been so long since I wrote any asp that it could just be the way asp works that makes that format work. I did not test whether it was IIS WWW or IIS SMTP that caused this problem. When I have the opportunity to test this I will post an update.
So to those of you who have seen an error in your PHP logs that said
“SMTP server response: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address in….”
then by removing the above from the scripts it will fix the problem. My recommendation is to make a copy of the line and make it a comment until I have an opportunity to find out whether it was W3 on IIS or SMTP.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:30 am
found your post by google - so decided to comment it to help someone
jun ran into the same problems - and found the solution. It
seems that this is a bug in PHPmailer (wp-includes\class-phpmailer.php), it generates invald e-mail addresses like
>
- outer are wrong - at least, wrong for IIS SMTP server.
I’ve done quick patch in the wordpress, by deleting full from name in all messages, inserting line in file pluggable.php, function wp_mail:
—
}
$phpmailer->From = trim( $from );
insert>>> $phpmailer->FromName = “”;
break;
default:
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