Cureless

Hands up. I just gave up on setting up sendmail on our server. (Notice how many times I used “up”.) The WordPress user registration really gave me a huge pain in the ass. Users who register on our intranet blog aren’t able to login because the server wouldn’t send the emails containing the password set by WordPress.

And I just can’t figure out what I’ve done wrong with the sendmail configuration. I followed every step. There must be some firewall monster-of-unknown-origin hiding behind mail server from where the sendmail client is connected.

But thank goodness, there’s Google. I’m no sys admin. But I can very much assure you of my patience in “Googling” (I’m a Certified Googler ™). Guess what I found?

wpPHPMailer by Coffee2Code. This plugin “enables WordPress to send e-mail via SMTP instead of via PHP’s mail() function (aka sendmail).” And yes, it works with WordPress 2.1.2.

Although I’m not entirely giving up on sendmail, this I bet shall probably momentarily assure the bosses of their clean and sparkly countenace the next time they meet the bigger bosses.