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It really is that simple – just make HowToGeek’s code into a plugin and install swiftmailer:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x#post-15776

That reminds me to fix some of my plugins so they use bb_mail() instead of mail() directly.

You take all that code that howtogeek pasted and put it into a file called “replacebbmail.php” or something. To make php code into a bbPress plugin, it needs to have a header. The header needs to look something like this (change the values to something meaningful to you):

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Swift Mailer

Plugin URI: http://www.example.com/ (doesn't really matter)

Description: Replace bb_mail with Swift Mailer

Author: You

Author URI: http://www.example.com/

Version: 0.1

*/

Then, paste the code that howtogeek showed at the end of that file. In the end, it will look something like this.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Swift Mailer

Plugin URI: http://www.example.com/ (doesn't really matter)

Description: Replace bb_mail with Swift Mailer

Author: You

Author URI: http://www.example.com/

Version: 0.1

*/



if ( !function_exists('bb_mail') ) {

function bb_mail($to, $subject, $content, $headers=''){



require_once('PATH_TO/Swift/lib/Swift.php');

require_once('PATH_TO/Swift/lib/Swift/Connection/Sendmail.php');



$swift =& new Swift(new Swift_Connection_Sendmail("/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs"));

$from = new Swift_Address("noreply@mysite.com","My bbPress Forums");



$message =& new Swift_Message($subject, $content);

if ($swift->send($message, $to, $from)) {return true;}

else{ echo "Message failed to send to ".$to." from ".$from;}

$swift->disconnect();

}

}

?>

The name of the file does not matter really. Save that new file in bb-plugins. Now activate your new plugin in the admin section of your bbPress site.

You will need to configure it before activating it to make sure it works (setting up the path to swift mailer and setting the auth stuff if you need to.)

Very nice. Glad you got it working.

I can’t seem to get this to work. I followed the instructions and put in the paths to my SwiftMailer directory, but the plugin just errors out when I try to activate it.

I really would like to get this sorted out, new users are registering on my forums, and many are not getting registration emails…

I can get it work, with this plugin new users can receive the reg-email. But the problem is the users can not login. After click login button a blank page come out. If deactive the plugin, the users can login, but new users can not receive the reg-email.

with IIS+PHP5, wordpress 2.5.1,

1.0-alpha now includes php-mailer from WordPress.

I’ve added a plugin for 1.0-alpha to allow sending of email via an SMTP server. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/smtp-mailer-for-bbpress/