By jtobun
Hello guys,
I got this message while trying to configure sendmail to work with my wordpress installation
From root@Christdigitals Fri Feb 13 16:14:05 2015 Return-Path: root@Christdigitals Received: from Christdigitals (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Christdigitals (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id t1DLE52h029345 for root@Christdigitals; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:14:05 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by Christdigitals (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id t1DLE5tT029340; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:14:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:14:05 -0500 Message-Id: 201502132114.t1DLE5tT029340@Christdigitals To: root@Christdigitals From: root@Christdigitals Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Subject: *** SECURITY information for Christdigitals ***
Christdigitals : Feb 13 16:14:05 : root : unable to resolve host Christdigitals
From root@Christdigitals Fri Feb 13 16:14:53 2015 Return-Path: root@Christdigitals Received: from Christdigitals (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Christdigitals (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id t1DLEri7029380 for root@Christdigitals; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:14:53 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by Christdigitals (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id t1DLEr7A029375; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:14:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:14:53 -0500 Message-Id: 201502132114.t1DLEr7A029375@Christdigitals To: root@Christdigitals From: root@Christdigitals Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Subject: *** SECURITY information for Christdigitals ***
Christdigitals : Feb 13 16:14:53 : root : unable to resolve host Christdigitals
Now i am following this tutorial http://collinhenderson.com/post/48046976172/a-fix-for-slow-sendmail-on-ubuntu .
Unfortunately after the error message i do not know how to proceed , kindly help out.
Please note that the name of my droplet is christiandigits and my site is www.christiandigits.com
but my console login is root@Christdigitals
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This question was answered by @sierracircle:
a quick fix would be to install a plugin like wp-smtp and just set the smtp with a gmail account. Then all of your emails will be sent through gmail.
however, if you want to work on getting sendmail working, what OS are you using?
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