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Unable to send mail

Posted August 19, 2017 4.6k views
EmailUbuntu 16.04

Recently I have installed Wordpress on my nginx server after Installing I’m getting this error

The email could not be sent.
Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function.

While resetting my password. Why this error happened and how to solve this. My server config is Ubuntu 16.04, Nginx 1.12.1 and WordPress 4.7.5.

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Aprexer August 19, 2017
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Mohsen47 August 20, 2017

@sasuke

By default DigitalOcean blocks sending emails from droplets, if your issue is not resolved as described by @Aprexer then you must create a support ticket to lift the block.

Hope this helps.

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  • Aprexer August 20, 2017

    Digitalocean does not block sending emails from droplets by default so don’t spread any rumours/lies.
    There is no such block in place.
    No need to make people open useless tickets since it will delay everyone elses problems more.
    It’s either his sendmail config, if hes using gmail his ip could be blacklisted which would mean snapshotting and creating a new droplet with the snapshot to get a new ip address.

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alexdo October 16, 2021

Hello all,

What I could suggest here is using an SMTP plugin for your WordPress site.

That way you will be able to specify an SMTP server with authentication which your emails would be going through. You could for example use Gmail’s SMTP settings. This would drastically increase the delivery rate of your emails as well compared to using plain PHP mail.

I’ve been using this plugin for a while now and it works very well: Easy WP SMTP

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Alex

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alexdo October 16, 2021

Hello all,

What I could suggest here is using an SMTP plugin for your WordPress site.

That way you will be able to specify an SMTP server with authentication which your emails would be going through. You could for example use Gmail’s SMTP settings. This would drastically increase the delivery rate of your emails as well compared to using plain PHP mail.

I’ve been using this plugin for a while now and it works very well: Easy WP SMTP

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Alex

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