I've used the following settings with WP-Mail-SMTP:
From email: wordpress@iowacityphotobooth.com
From name: Iowa City Photo Booth
Mailer: Send all WordPress emails via SMTP.
SMTP Host: relay-hosting.secureserver.net
SMTP Port: 25
No Encryption
Yes: Use SMTP authentication.
Username: wordpress@iowacityphotobooth.com
Password: my email password
When I send a test email I get the following debugging info... which ends with something about thinking the email is spam or a virus content.
How do I get past this error to successfully using SMTP on my WordPress site?
Test Message Sent
The result was:
bool(true)
The full debugging output is shown below:
object(PHPMailer)#363 (58) {
["Priority"]=>
int(3)
["CharSet"]=>
string(5) "UTF-8"
["ContentType"]=>
string(10) "text/plain"
["Encoding"]=>
string(4) "8bit"
["ErrorInfo"]=>
string(0) ""
["From"]=>
string(32) "wordpress@iowacityphotobooth.com"
["FromName"]=>
string(21) "Iowa City Photo Booth"
["Sender"]=>
string(0) ""
["Subject"]=>
string(45) "WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to stemlund@gmail.com"
["Body"]=>
string(68) "This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin."
["AltBody"]=>
string(0) ""
["MIMEBody:protected"]=>
string(69) "This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.
"
["MIMEHeader:protected"]=>
string(491) "Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:51:51 +0000
Return-Path: wordpress@iowacityphotobooth.com
To: stemlund@gmail.com
From: Iowa City Photo Booth
Subject: WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to stemlund@gmail.com
Message-ID: <686695d901c3c613882356e38eeb4f39@www.iowacityphotobooth.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.1 (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
"
["SentMIMEMessage:protected"]=>
string(564) "Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:51:51 +0000
Return-Path: wordpress@iowacityphotobooth.com
To: stemlund@gmail.com
From: Iowa City Photo Booth
Subject: WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to stemlund@gmail.com
Message-ID: <686695d901c3c613882356e38eeb4f39@www.iowacityphotobooth.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.1 (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.
"
["WordWrap"]=>
int(0)
["Mailer"]=>
string(4) "smtp"
["Sendmail"]=>
string(18) "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
["PluginDir"]=>
string(0) ""
["ConfirmReadingTo"]=>
string(0) ""
["Hostname"]=>
string(0) ""
["MessageID"]=>
string(0) ""
["Host"]=>
string(30) "relay-hosting.secureserver.net"
["Port"]=>
string(2) "25"
["Helo"]=>
string(0) ""
["SMTPSecure"]=>
string(0) ""
["SMTPAuth"]=>
bool(true)
["Username"]=>
string(32) "wordpress@iowacityphotobooth.com"
["Password"]=>
string(12) "password was here"
["Timeout"]=>
int(10)
["SMTPDebug"]=>
int(2)
["SMTPKeepAlive"]=>
bool(false)
["SingleTo"]=>
bool(false)
["SingleToArray"]=>
array(0) {
}
["LE"]=>
string(1) "
"
["DKIM_selector"]=>
string(9) "phpmailer"
["DKIM_identity"]=>
string(0) ""
["DKIM_passphrase"]=>
string(0) ""
["DKIM_domain"]=>
string(0) ""
["DKIM_private"]=>
string(0) ""
["action_function"]=>
string(0) ""
["Version"]=>
string(5) "5.2.1"
["XMailer"]=>
string(0) ""
["smtp:protected"]=>
object(SMTP)#362 (8) {
["SMTP_PORT"]=>
int(25)
["CRLF"]=>
string(2) "
"
["do_debug"]=>
int(2)
["do_verp"]=>
bool(false)
["Version"]=>
string(5) "5.2.1"
["smtp_conn:private"]=>
resource(289) of type (stream)
["error:private"]=>
NULL
["helo_rply:private"]=>
string(139) "250-p3smtphosting01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net hello [68.178.254.18], secureserver.net
250-HELP
250-SIZE 30000000
250-8BITMIME
250 OK
"
}
["to:protected"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(18) "stemlund@gmail.com"
[1]=>
string(0) ""
}
}
["cc:protected"]=>
array(0) {
}
["bcc:protected"]=>
array(0) {
}
["ReplyTo:protected"]=>
array(0) {
}
["all_recipients:protected"]=>
array(1) {
["stemlund@gmail.com"]=>
bool(true)
}
["attachment:protected"]=>
array(0) {
}
["CustomHeader:protected"]=>
array(0) {
}
["message_type:protected"]=>
string(5) "plain"
["boundary:protected"]=>
array(3) {
[1]=>
string(35) "b1_686695d901c3c613882356e38eeb4f39"
[2]=>
string(35) "b2_686695d901c3c613882356e38eeb4f39"
[3]=>
string(35) "b3_686695d901c3c613882356e38eeb4f39"
}
["language:protected"]=>
array(17) {
["provide_address"]=>
string(54) "You must provide at least one recipient email address."
["mailer_not_supported"]=>
string(25) " mailer is not supported."
["execute"]=>
string(19) "Could not execute: "
["instantiate"]=>
string(36) "Could not instantiate mail function."
["authenticate"]=>
string(35) "SMTP Error: Could not authenticate."
["from_failed"]=>
string(35) "The following From address failed: "
["recipients_failed"]=>
string(45) "SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: "
["data_not_accepted"]=>
string(30) "SMTP Error: Data not accepted."
["connect_host"]=>
string(43) "SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host."
["file_access"]=>
string(23) "Could not access file: "
["file_open"]=>
string(33) "File Error: Could not open file: "
["encoding"]=>
string(18) "Unknown encoding: "
["signing"]=>
string(15) "Signing Error: "
["smtp_error"]=>
string(19) "SMTP server error: "
["empty_message"]=>
string(18) "Message body empty"
["invalid_address"]=>
string(15) "Invalid address"
["variable_set"]=>
string(30) "Cannot set or reset variable: "
}
["error_count:protected"]=>
int(0)
["sign_cert_file:protected"]=>
string(0) ""
["sign_key_file:protected"]=>
string(0) ""
["sign_key_pass:protected"]=>
string(0) ""
["exceptions:protected"]=>
bool(false)
}
The SMTP debugging output is shown below:
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 p3smtphosting01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ESMTP server ready
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-p3smtphosting01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net hello [68.178.254.18], secureserver.net
250-HELP
250-SIZE 30000000
250-8BITMIME
250 OK
SMTP -> ERROR: AUTH not accepted from server: 500 command unrecognized
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 OK
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 ok
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 ok
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:354 enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 merr1l0070QbNh801:LEG:Message dropped for spam or virus content