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Did you know that WordPress sends you emails when you get a new blog comment? I didn’t<\/em> – because it has never worked for me. But once I knew it was supposed to email me I looked into it and found a fix.<\/p>\n Setup:<\/em> My setup is running WordPress.org on a Ubuntu 9.04 box called Butterfree<\/em> with sendmail installed.<\/p>\n The problem was that the <\/p>\n \nI found this by changing the admin email from the one that didn’t work to a gmail one, then posting a test comment on one of my posts. Then I waited for the email to arrive in gmail and selected “show original<\/em>” from the gmail interface. A quicker way is to check the entries in In order to fix the issue, I configured the return path in emails sent from WordPress (i.e. PHP) to something different using the sudo emacs \/etc\/php5\/apache2\/php.ini<\/span><\/p>\n Find the Doing this solved this issue so I now get email about new comments.<\/p>\n My fix feels a bit of a hack. I would be interested in how to solve this problem the right way, so let me know if you can give me some advice. For example, perhaps I should have done something with my DNS settings for my domain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you know that WordPress sends you emails when you get a new blog comment? I didn’t – because it has never worked for me. But once I knew it was supposed to email me I looked into it and found a fix. Setup: My setup is running WordPress.org on a Ubuntu 9.04 box called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[105,26,87],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-sendmail","tag-ubuntu","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Return-Path<\/code> header in my outgoing mails wasn’t valid which caused some mail recipients to reject the mail, while other less picky ones, accepted the mail fine (e.g. gmail). The Return-Path<\/code> header that sendmail was using looked something like this:<\/p>\n\nReturn-Path: <www-data@butterfree.bitvolution.com>\n<\/pre>\n
\/var\/log\/mail.log<\/code>.<\/p>\n-f<\/code> parameter for sendmail:<\/p>\nsendmail_path<\/code> and uncomment it and add the -f<\/code> flag:
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\n; -f will set the \"return-path\" headers.
\nsendmail_path = \/usr\/sbin\/sendmail -i -t -f sendmail@bitvolution.com
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