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Ok, so I finally got the email issues worked out and figured I’d share the info with others who might be interested. By default, the installation had mail turned off. From what I read, SMTP/Sendmail needs to be running to get this to work and that may be a bit more than some more security conscious folks can stomach. I however, can.

In the wp-includes folder of your installation, you’ll need to edit:

• pluggable.php
• class-phpmailer.php

Find this line in pluggable.php $phpmailer->isMail();and modify it so it reads $phpmailer->isSMTP();

Next open up class-phpmailer.php and set the hostname and other credentials:

var $Host        = "YOUR_HOSTMANE";
var $SMTPAuth     = true;
var $Username     = "YOUR_USERNAME";
var $Password     = "PASSWORD";


Upload to your server’s wp-includes folder and all should be good.  That is, provided you have SendMail running and you have your credentials handy. For the record, I didn’t figure this out myself. Giving credit where credit is due, I got everything here and he deserves all the credit.  If you want to use a different approach, you can look through the zillions of WordPress SMTP Plugins.

[tags] WordPress, SMTP, Sendmail [/tags]