By info1
Hi DigitalOcean team, first of all, congrats for everything ! That an awesome service ! Next, I would know how to enable the mail() fonction. By default I think it’s disabled because I received an error with wordpress trying to retreive a lost password.
Le message n’a pas pu être envoyé. Raison possible : votre hébergeur peut avoir désactivé la fonction mail()…
The message can’t been sent. Possible reason : your host has maybe deactivated mail() function…
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I spent hours tonight trying to figure out why sendmail and the php mail() function wouldn’t work on my DigitalOcean server. I followed all of the tutorials and couldn’t get anything to work. It turns out Gmail was blocking all of the mail coming from my DigitalOcean server. The mail I was sending couldn’t even make it to the spam folder. I discovered this by running sendmail from the command line. I then tried sending mail to a non-gmail account, and it worked just fine! So if anyone else is going through hell trying to figure this out, try sending some mail to a non-gmail account, or try running sendmail from the command line to see if you get some sort of error about Google / Gmail blocking your mail to prevent spam.
AND ONE MORE THING: The DigitalOcean server that was blocked by Gmail was not associated with a domain name, it simply had an IP address. I tried using sendmail and the php mail function on another DigitalOcean server of mine that is associated with a domain name, and that email was NOT BLOCKED. So if Gmail is blocking mail from your DigitalOcean server, it may be because your server isn’t associated with a domain name.
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@sunjerseys.com <br> <br>After changing my hosts file my email sends from this address: <br> <br>info@localhost.localdomain <br> <br>Any ideas?
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