Wordpress: No E-Mails after migration from old server

[im-fabian]

Hi!

I migrated a Wordpress site from a old server to Cloudron. I did this by copying the wp-content folder, importing the db (which I cleared before) and writing the secrets to wp-config.conf.

Everything works like a charm except e-mail. Wordpress just is not able to send out e-mails. There's nothing in the logs – neither the app-logs nor the mailserver log. So the mail does not even reach the cloudron mailserver.

There is no funky custom smtp plugin installed. I just think that there are some special cloudron e-mail-configs for wordpress which do not restore after restart and are not documented (at least I am unable to find such) to apply manually.

Mail on other apps works fine.

[msbt]

That's the thing, sending emails with WordPress requires a SMTP plugin, so you need to install one and add the corresponding credentials from the env variables.

[im-fabian]

@msbt well the cloudron staff says that wordpress is configured out of the box by cloudron. See here: https://forum.cloudron.io/post/70604

[msbt]

Ah right, but how did you migrate it? LAMP, WP Managed or Developer? The latter two come with their own smtp-mailer plugins.

[girish]

@im-fabian the package uses https://wordpress.org/plugins/smtp-mailer/ . If you install that plugin and restart the app, it should automatically get configured to send mails via Cloudron.

[im-fabian]

@girish thx, that solved the problem. Problem was that during migration I replaced the whole wp-content-folder with the folder from the instance I migrated.