I have the Settings in the database all set to dish out the email (mail.ultimahosts.com etc etc) however, when it tries to send an email (I am using the "Lost Password Feature", it comes up as unable to send email, mail() command might be disabled.

Is there a general work around for this that I am not finding (took some digging just for the email settings), or is this something I just have to deal with? I haven't done any odd configurations for email (in fact, the only changes I made where for the email settings in the DB) so if I am missing those settings a pointer to them would be awesome.

If needed I can make a mini account to see the error.

Also are there changes that where made to the Wordpress code to make it work here?  I couldn't get 2.2.3 to work at all, but My GF and I will be fine with 2.2.1 :)

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-Wilson Gearld Mead III
www.rangoric.com (Rather Blah)
blog.rangoric.name (Closer to Not Blah)

I'm not familiar with PHP scripting, but have you tried using mail.yourdomain.com instead of mail.ultimahosts.com?

Also, make sure you are using SMTP Authentication in Wordpress/PHP and port 25 (which is standard).

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William Eaton, MCSE
iTech Computer Solutions, LLC
www.itechcs.com

itechcs:

I'm not familiar with PHP scripting, but have you tried using mail.yourdomain.com instead of mail.ultimahosts.com?

Also, make sure you are using SMTP Authentication in Wordpress/PHP and port 25 (which is standard).

I will see if I can find those.  I will try changing the mail to that (I have been using the ultimahosts one as thats the seting for ASP) and will also see if I can force it to do SMTP on 25.  I didn't see that but it wanted to use 110 default and I also had it try 3535

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-Wilson Gearld Mead III
www.rangoric.com (Rather Blah)
blog.rangoric.name (Closer to Not Blah)

Port 110 is the default for incoming (POP3) email.  Port 25 is the default for outgoing (SMTP) email.

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William Eaton, MCSE
iTech Computer Solutions, LLC
www.itechcs.com

I am not sure, but I think the mail() is OS-dependent and can not function under Windows...

"The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine)."

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

I have also some problems with mailing from php...

rapik:

I am not sure, but I think the mail() is OS-dependent and can not function under Windows...

"The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine)."

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

I have also some problems with mailing from php...

 

it works fine from my phpBB site. Its the wordpress part that is kinda not working. I'll end up looking at it once I am not working 2 jobs anymore.

Email works from my phpBB site I don't know what it uses, and I am going to change Wordpress to use that system if possible is what I ment :)

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-Wilson Gearld Mead III
www.rangoric.com (Rather Blah)
blog.rangoric.name (Closer to Not Blah)

Did you find the answer to this question? I can't get mail to work on my WordPress blog either.