Wordpress Registration Email Not Sending

February 17, 2015 14k views
fvin
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fvin

Hello everyone.

I opened registration to visitors in one of my wordpress websites and registration is not working properly.

I just tried "Lost Password?" function and it gave me this error:

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

My server is Ubuntu 12.04; LEMP - running on nginx.

Is there a way to fix this problem without messing up?

I appreciate your help. Thanks,

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sierracircle February 17, 2015

if you install sendmail, as ryan mentioned, be sure to do:

sudo apt-get install sendmail

and then configure sendmail(just choose the defaults)

sudo sendmailconfig

reboot

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ryanpq MOD February 17, 2015

You will need to install an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) on your droplet in order to route mail for PHP. You can do this simply by installing postfix or sendmail on your droplet.

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fvin February 18, 2015

Problem solved. Thanks.

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alcanjp April 25, 2015

Problem not solved!

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mpatzekov June 26, 2015

I tested this option and the result on this page: /wp-login.php?action=lostpassword is: 

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Looking in the config log the following info appears: 

2015/06/26 10:44:35 [error] 3595#0: *8 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: 92.247.239.168, server: dekoration.haus, request: "POST /wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock", host: "46.101.255.114", referrer: "http://46.101.255.114/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword"


2015/06/26 10:45:21 [error] 3595#0: *3 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: 92.247.239.168, server: dekoration.haus, request: "POST /wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock", host: "46.101.255.114", referrer: "http://46.101.255.114/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword"

UPDATE: This tread helped me find out how to deal with this error problem:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/sendmail-is-slow-to-send-mail

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leandropoles July 7, 2015

Perfect! Thanks @sierracircle

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