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Smtp-auth support in Wordpress
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SMTP auth support can be added in Wordpress through third party plugins. You can follow these steps to add SMTP authentication to your Wordpress install
1) Download
http://www.callum-macdonald.com/download/wp_mail_smtp.zip
2) Unzip the file to get the file named wp_mail_smtp.php
3) Copy the file to the plugins folder (\wordpress\wp-content\plugins)
4) Login to wordpress as admin and click on plugins you can see WP-Mail-SMTP
Activate it.
5) Click on options->E-mail to Modify the SMTP settings
6) modify the following fields
* Specify the from name and email address created under your domain)
* Choose to send mail by SMTP or PHP's mail() function.(select SMTP)
* Specify an SMTP host (auth-1.za.ispafrica.net).
* Choose to use SMTP authentication or not (yes).
* Specify an SMTP username and password.(specify your FTP username and password)
Once you finish. Click on update options.
7) Test the mail function from there using " send Test"
Article Details
Article ID:
241
Created On:
10 Jun 2009 10:56 AM
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