Ever since I upgraded Wordpress to 2.3, I stopped receiving email notifications of new comments, which I didn’t find out until a good deal later. It was pretty frustrating, but after a bit of searching, I guess I wasn’t the only one having the problem.
If you are having the same problem, here are the 2 places that I checked:
Not Receiving Email Notification of New Comments
$phpmailer->Sender line prevents comment notifications from being received
Well, that didn’t really fix it for me. What I had to do was the following:
1. Create an email account with my host. i.e. wordpress@jacknjeannie.com
2. Install the Wordpress Plugin – Comments Notifier
I guess the 2.3 upgrade broke something, so if you are having the same problem, good luck to you.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Zaal // Dec 19, 2007 at 12:26 am
Hi Jack,
I like the idea of the plugin but, honestly, I would hope that this ‘bug’ would be fixed in code by the developers.
I’m hoping they can get this fixed in the near future.
Anyways, thanks for the info.
Zaal
2 Jack // Dec 19, 2007 at 9:04 am
Glad that worked for you. This is more like a work around rather than a fix, and hopefully this will get fixed in the next WordPress update.
3 Allen // Jan 5, 2008 at 5:25 am
Hi! My problems started when I upgraded from 2.3 to 2.3.1. I am not receiving any emails anymore.
I added wordpress@silkenhut.com but that did not help. My temporary workaround was to install the plug-in WP-Mail-SMTP but for now I can only receive comment notifications. My backups and other mails are not getting sent. I also noticed that my comment subscribers are not getting their emails. -_-
4 Jack // Jan 7, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Have no idea what the cause of it is. Hopefully they’ll fix it soon. I wonder if this issue is in the WP bug list?
5 Laura // Jan 16, 2008 at 6:03 am
Thanks for this! I moved from godaddy to bluehost and upgraded at the same time, and argh!
6 Courtney // Feb 6, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Thanks for this workaround. It worked great for me.
7 Jack // Feb 8, 2008 at 2:21 pm
You are welcome Courtney. You have a cool site!
8 charlie // Feb 20, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I was tearing my hair out then came across your fix. Why oh why can’t the developers get this working.
Thanks for the help.
9 maria // Mar 8, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I use bluehost. Adding the wordpress@mydomain.com totally worked. Thank you!
10 gw // Mar 9, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I’ve been blogging since 2003, first on Blogger and then with MT, but I am a newbie when it comes to WordPress. I tried everything to get my comment notification to work, but it never worked for my husband’s or my blogs.
I just installed the plugin you reference here, but I’ve not seen any comment notification come through from my test comment post on his blog.
Does the e-mail address have to be wordpress@domain.com? Can it be anything?
11 gw // Mar 9, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Success!! I had no luck using our regular e-mail addresses, both within our domain and with my Gmail address. However, when I created a forwarder with wordpress@domain.com, notification zipped right on through when I logged out and posted a test comment. Yay!
Thank you so much for posting this solution.
12 Jack // Mar 9, 2008 at 10:33 pm
No Problem. Glad that I can help!
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14 Felicia // Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Spasibo za vash trud!!
15 Rob Layton // Mar 19, 2009 at 8:52 pm
This solution worked for me when nothing else did. Too long to type, so I’ll just give you the link to the guide: http://www.roblayton.net/archive/wordpress-not-sending-emails-anymore-solved/
16 Kevin Subba // Jul 11, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Hi,
I was also facing same problem.
I am sure nothing will work until you fix it in your C-panel setting.Its not Wordpress problem but its your domain localhost setting problem. Dont blame Wordpress.
Find solution here: http://annanta.com/web-world/wordpress-not-sending-email-try-this-fix/
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