Make sending emails work

Question

Make sending emails work

Richi2293 opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Hi,

is it possible to make sending mail work?

I have in my code the 'wp_mail' method of wordpress to send emails and I would like to make it work so as to test also sending the emails.
Because it would seem that this thing doesn't work.

Thanks

maybe it could be a solution to use the basic wordpress part this image that I think already has the functionality:
https://github.com/sjitech/wordpress-sendmail

Omer Levi Hevroni · Answer 1 · Sun Mar 18 2018 12:41:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

To be honest, I'm not sure. IMO it is better to just test this method is working. But I would guess that in order to make it work also here, you probably need to configure WordPress with the relevant details so it could send mail. How do you configure regular WP instance? This could help us figure it out.

Riccardo · Answer 2 · Sun Mar 18 2018 21:19:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On my wordpress test environment I used this plugin: https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
With that plugin I set up a gmail email who requested this information to work: SMTP Host, SMTP Port,
Encryption set to ssl, Authentication SMTP.

Omer Levi Hevroni · Answer 3 · Mon Mar 19 2018 02:06:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

So you will need to customize the Dockerfile to install this plugin and set up all those settings in order for this to work. Not very complicated, but somewhat flaky.
IMO it is better to test that the method was called, this thread looks pretty promising, but there was also many other options online. This will be a lot less flaky, and not depend on external plugin and SMTP server to work.

Eric Bickle · Answer 4 · Tue Aug 29 2023 00:24:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

We're archiving the repository but keeping it online in case it's helpful for others. As part of that we're closing the open issues and pull requests.