WordPress Contact 7 plugin "Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method." error

September 9, 2013 17.3k views
itohami
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itohami
I moved my website to DO 2 days ago (using one-click wordpress installation), I have a contact form using Contact 7 plugin for wrodpress. at first it was working but sending the email took around 30+secs. So I thought restarting the droplet will fix this. Actually after restarting the droplet it stopped working & now it give me "Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method." error, how can I fix this? it was working properly on my previous hosting.
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pablo September 9, 2013
Check out: WordPress email notifications
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itohami September 10, 2013
But it was working before restarting the droplet so I don't think I need this
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kamaln7 MOD September 10, 2013
SSH into your droplet and run the following command: 

echo test | mail your@emailaddress.com

Do you get the email address? What's the output of said command?
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itohami September 13, 2013
Apparently I had to install postfix, but now it's not sending emails & when I try to run postfix I get this error

`postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running`

when I `tail` `mail.err` & `mail.log` I see these errors

Sep 13 11:24:43 localhost postfix/postfix-script[18026]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Sep 13 11:24:54 localhost postfix/master[18130]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use
Sep 13 11:25:01 localhost postfix/postfix-script[18148]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Sep 13 11:25:04 localhost postfix/master[18249]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use
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pablo September 13, 2013
Do you need to send mail from your droplet for anything else, other than WordPress?
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kamaln7 MOD September 13, 2013
Try restarting your droplet. That should fix it.
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miller.t.chris October 24, 2013
Having the same issue, terminal said
/usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory

after

echo test | mail your@emailaddress.com

I am going to do some more digging to find the fix.
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miller.t.chris October 24, 2013
May not be related to this post, but I did find the fix for my issue. I am running an Ubuntu droplet and it appears that I did not have an SMTP service setup.

Running apt-get install sendmail fixed my issue.

Original article here.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/php-mail-function-enable
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