[wp-testers] No comment notification using WP 3.0-alpha

[Kirk M]

Hi Dion,

The email address associated with the test site is not a Gmail address 
but one directly associated with my web host. This used to be required 
by WordPress as email addresses external to the web host/site itself 
were not allowed as many hosts added this check as a security measure. 
The standard format for a site related email address was 
"wordpress at domainname.***". (This info was located in the WP docs 
somewhere but I can't recall exactly where off the top of my head.)

*Note*: Westi once made me a small plugin that circumvented this 
requirement (requirement came in WP 2.5 I believe?) called 
"php-no-sender" which worked great back then but does not help the 
problem in WP 3.0.

I did state that the "Subscribe to Comments" plugin was correctly 
sending notifications to a couple Gmail addresses I had set up for 
testing purposes.

Also, I confirmed this problem last night with a couple of friends of 
mine who are also running WP 3.0-alpha test sites. They're both 
experiencing the same exact problem of receiving every notification I 
mentioned previously except the standard comment notifications as 
described in my original post. All 3 of us are running the PHP5 (5.2.11 
in my case).

Deactivating plugins does not change the problem by the way. I wish I 
could recall when the WP 3.0 nightly builds stopped sending comment 
notifications but I haven't been able to track it down.

Sorry if this is too much info. I tend to be wordy.

On 03/19/2010 09:27 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) wrote:
> Have you checked your gmail spam?
>
> For quite awhile i wasn't receiving comment notifications, turned out,
> it was due to gmail eating comment notifications (While passing through
> user notifications)..
>
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> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:20:37 +1200, Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all - I've encountered a rather hair pulling glitch with a WordPress
>> 3.0-alpha test site in that it's not sending out any comment
>> notifications whatsoever. The email address in both my "User Profile"
>> (administrator) and under "Settings/General" is the same and associated
>> with my web host (wordpress at mysitename.us) just like my other 2 sites
>> are. My other two sites are running WP 2.9.2 and receive comment
>> notifications without problem. (web host is Bluehost--never had a
>> problem with this until WP 3.0-alpha builds).
>>
>> I seem to recall that comment notifications were working initially and
>> then just quit between one nightly build and another. Unfortunately, I
>> was rather busy at the time and I don't remember which builds.
>>
>> The kicker here is that I'm also running the "Subscribe to Comments"
>> plugin on the test site and I'm receiving notifications of additional
>> comments on a post I'm subscribed to with no problem.
>>
>> In further troubleshooting, I even receive "New User" notifications not
>> only to the email address associated with my "User Profile" and under
>> "Settings/General" but also to the email address (a Gmail address) I
>> used for the "new user" (the new user was myself of course using a
>> different name.
>>
>> Bottom line test results are:
>>
>> -Comment notifications to site owner: -No-
>>
>> -"Subscribe to Comments" notifications sent to subscriber's email
>> address: -Yes-
>>
>> -New user notifications to site owner: -Yes-
>>
>> -New user username and password sent to their email address: -Yes-
>>
>> I have "Settings/Discussion" set to email me whenever "Anyone posts a
>> comment". I've checked everything that's even remotely associated with
>> the standard comment notifications and I can't find the problem and I
>> can't figure out for the life of me why all the other email
>> notifications related to the site are working fine EXCEPT the standard
>> comment notifications. Nothing in the error logs either.
>>
>> I'm running out of hair which is dangerous at my age as I have so little
>> to begin with so any help would be very welcome.
>>
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