[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4326: WP can't use Google Apps For Your Domain email accounts.

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#4326: WP can't use Google Apps For Your Domain email accounts.
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 Reporter:  PStamatiou     |        Owner:  matt
     Type:  defect         |       Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:  2.4 
Component:  WordPress.org  |      Version:      
 Severity:  normal         |   Resolution:      
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion    |  
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Comment (by foolswisdom):

 Paul, look else where tickets are sin.

 Can you test to see if it is specific to Google hosted email?

 Could this relate to #4318 ?

 astorg writes on wp.org/support:

 I had this problem too ever since I switched to Google Apps Hosted Gmail a
 few months ago (this was before 2.2). For a long time I wasn’t receiving
 any mail notifications and/or contact form mail.

 I finally solved it with a combination of several steps to completely
 revamp the way WordPress handles email.

 The first measure was installing the http://www.shiftthis.net/wordpress-
 swift-smtp-plugin/ plugin wish allows you to manage all your email using a
 secure connection via your Gmail SMTP server. This will work with Google
 Apps, but you need to tweak several of your PHP files and plugins that use
 email to make the switch functional (all explained on the plugin site).
 This got my contact form email back through.

 A second, apparently unrelated problem was that WordPress doesn’t seem to
 like it if you post articles using the same email address as the one used
 for admin and the one used for the plugin. I solved this one by using one
 address for my profile (the one my posts are signed under) and another for
 (1) blog admin and (2) the SMTP plugin email address (the one that any
 incoming email to me from the contact form or the WordPress admin gets
 sent to.

 I also got rid of the <wordpress at mydomain.com> default address that the
 standard install will set up and replaced it with my admin address.

 With these two additional steps, my comment and subscription notices
 started coming back through. It looks as if WordPress doesn’t like sending
 them to you if you are the author of the articles in your blog.

 The final touch was to disable email on my Media Temple (DV) 3.0 server.
 Although my DNS isn’t managed by Media Temple, I noticed that this final
 step (which I had overlooked when I switched my email to Google Apps)
 finally got me receiving notifications about 404 Errors (which had
 previously got swallowed up by the system despite all the above fixes).

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