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This is a log of my wordpress configuration.

Outgoing mail is sent with SMTP instead of php’s mail() function

http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/28/plugin-wpphpmailer/

Since I didn’t want to install and run sendmail merely to support WordPress’s notifications, I opted to have WordPress send directly to the mail server. Fortunately, PHPMailer provides all the functionality I wanted to use (and more). This plugin makes use of PHPMailer (and one slight core code change) to negate the need for sendmail. In addition, by using PHPMailer a host of other mail features could be exploited. For instance, the plugin supports:

* Auto-wordwrap length for message
* Single or multiple SMTP servers
* Hard-coding of all notification origination e-mail addresses (i.e. have all e-mail “From:” fields set to something like “wordpress@mysite.org” rather than the e-mail of the commenter)
* Support for authenticating and non-authenticating SMTP servers
* HTML in addition to plaintext ContentTypes for the message body

Blog by email
I wanted to blog by e-mail using a gmail account, but this is not possible.