server requirements

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I have not been able to locate this anywhere else online, so apologies if I
missed an easy answer somewhere.  What exactly is needed for this to work?
 I have installed it on a WP 2.8.4 site and it says it is sending messages
but we never receive anything.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jasonral...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2009 at 6:22

[GoogleCodeExporter]

There's nothing special that needs doing, but if you could answer a couple of 
questions 
I'll try to work out what the issue is.

Do you receive emails from Wordpress already or from any other plugin?
Have you used a previous version of Email Users successfully?
Have you or are you able to check PHP error logs?

Original comment by scyt...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2009 at 10:25

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[GoogleCodeExporter]

Do you receive emails from Wordpress already or from any other plugin?

(Doesn't appear to work correctly for this or any plugin)

Have you used a previous version of Email Users successfully?

(Nope, first time trying it out)

Have you or are you able to check PHP error logs?

(PHP errors were not being logged, but if I tail the error log I created and
configured while trying to send a test message using the settings page for the 
plugin
I don't get any new error output)

Original comment by jasonral...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2009 at 12:03

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It appears as though your Wordpress isn't able to send emails then. The plugin 
just 
calls the wp_mail() function. You could try the following plugin, see if it's 
because 
of SMTP (needing authentication etc). Let me know how you go.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

BTW, is your host running Windows or Linux?

Original comment by scyt...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2009 at 7:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

hmmm, I installed the SMTP plugin per your recommendation, my apache error log 
is
showing the following:

[Mon Aug 24 09:34:19 2009] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning:  Invalid 
argument
supplied for foreach() in
/home/kb/site/public/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/wp_mail_smtp.php on line 86

I know that's not your problem to fix, just an FYI since it may be relevant to 
the
issue at hand.

This is a Linux server running the installation, latest WP release.

We recently enabled a FastCGI/Suexec mechanism on the server so that WP could 
write
to the server without using insecure permissions.  I will consult with the other
admins working on this project to see if we can dig a little deeper.

Thanks for your help!  If I make any progress I will update you in another 
reply.  

Original comment by jasonral...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2009 at 1:49

[GoogleCodeExporter]

We were able to get the mail functions working on our own  :)  Regardless, 
thank you
for your help and tips, and especially for your plugin.

For the record, the only issue we had was sendmail was installed but not 
actually
running due to this being on a production server that we wanted to keep as 
locked
down as possible.

Thanks again!

Original comment by jasonral...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2009 at 2:48

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ok, thanks for getting back to me with what the issue was. Good to know that it 
wasn't a problem with the code.

I'll close this now. 

Original comment by scyt...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2009 at 4:51

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