Re: sending mail from wordpress

Hi Edgar,

Have a look at /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/femail-chroot
It will tell you everything you need to know and do. :)

Mischa

On 2 Jan at 06:21, Edgar Pettijohn <edgar@pettijohn-web.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting mail to go through wordpress.
>
> I have femail installed as /var/www/usr/sbin/sendmail.
>
> In /etc/php-7.1.ini I have:
>
> sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -f edgar@pettijohn-web.com"
>
>
> I can:
>
> echo "HI" | chroot /var/www /usr/sbin/sendmail -f edgar@pettijohn-web.com
> testaddress
>
> and the mail goes through.
>
>
> However, I get the following from wordpress.
>
> The email could not be sent. Possible reason: your host may have disabled
> the mail() function.
>
>
> The mail() function is not disabled. If my reading of class-phpmailer.php is
> correct it should see that sendmail_path is defined and use sendmail instead
> of mail().
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Edgar
>