Topic: WP-Email On Yahoo Host Or Host That Have Strict Email Settings

[baban]

First of all my compliments on this great plugin. It reflects weeks and weeks of quality work.

I am hosted on yahoo smallbusiness.

I got this error:

“An error has occurred when trying to send this email:
» Language string failed to load: instantiate”

A closer examination reveals that the error arises because Yahoo! does not permit emails to be sent with an address which is outside the domain. For example, an email from abc@gmail.com cannot be sent to pqr@hotmail.com via Yahoo!

The solution is to modify the php file to show the sender as being from the domain.

Under the heading “// POST Variables” (line 779 or thereabouts), add the variable:

$senderemail = "myemail@mydomain.com";//add your domain’s email address

Under the heading “// PHP Mailer Variables” (line 963 or thereabouts), find the directives:

“$mail->From     = $youremail;
 $mail->FromName = $yourname;”

and substitute by:

“$mail->From     = $senderemail;
 $mail->FromName = $senderemail;”

If you want the recipient to know the email of the sender, in the template add the variable “%EMAIL_YOUR_EMAIL%,”

after the words “<p>Hi <strong>%EMAIL_FRIEND_NAME%</strong>,<br />Your friend, <strong>%EMAIL_YOUR_NAME%</strong>,”

This way the recipient will know get the sender's email alongwith the message.

Hope this helps.

[GaMerZ]

Thanks for sharing, sticked and renamed post title.

[frankb]

Wow... THANKS for that information! Everything is working great now, very much appreciated!

[catherine123]

First of all my compliments on this great plugin. It reflects weeks and weeks of quality work.

I am hosted on yahoo smallbusiness.

I got this error:

“An error has occurred when trying to send this email:
» Language string failed to load: instantiate”

A closer examination reveals that the error arises because Yahoo! does not permit emails to be sent with an address which is outside the domain. For example, an email from abc@gmail.com cannot be sent to pqr@hotmail.com via Yahoo!

The solution is to modify the php file to show the sender as being from the domain.

Under the heading “// POST Variables” (line 779 or thereabouts), add the variable:

$senderemail = "myemail@mydomain.com";//add your domain’s email address

Under the heading “// PHP Mailer Variables” (line 963 or thereabouts), find the directives:

“$mail->From     = $youremail;
 $mail->FromName = $yourname;”

and substitute by:

“$mail->From     = $senderemail;
 $mail->FromName = $senderemail;”

If you want the recipient to know the email of the sender, in the template add the variable “%EMAIL_YOUR_EMAIL%,”

after the words “<p>Hi <strong>%EMAIL_FRIEND_NAME%</strong>,<br />Your friend, <strong>%EMAIL_YOUR_NAME%</strong>,”

This way the recipient will know get the sender's email alongwith the message.

Hope this helps.

Can you show me to to find line 779? where I need to add $senderemail = "myemail@mydomain.com? I'm having problem how to find it, appreciate for your help. thanks.

[GaMerZ]

Just replace

Code: [Select]

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->From     = $youremail;
$mail->FromName = $yourname; in line 1007 to 1009.
With:

Code: [Select]

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$senderemail = "myemail@mydomain.com";//add your domain’s email address
$mail->From     = $senderemail ;
$mail->FromName = $senderemail;

[catherine123]

@ GaMerZ
Thanks, your plugin is great!

[Oncle Tom]

Any way to have an action or filter to do that?

In fact, the best way could to deal with `wp_email` function, to rely totally on WordPress settings, which may be overriden by a third-party plugin (like SMTP Sender).

I use authsmtp and in all cases, I can't rely on the sender email to emit email with. I just added a do_action('phpmailer_init', $mail); before $mail->Send() but in any case, if you use an action or wp_email, it would be great.

Thanks