Oh yes, he was! He’d posted four links within a post which is two more than is apparently allowed. They are genuine links so I have upped our allowance to 4. Will he now be unblocked or do I have to unblock him myself? Many thanks!
Everything has been sorted now and it’s working well! So the solution in case anyone in the future comes up with the same question is that I used the Easy WP SMTP plugin and linked this up to Amazon SES (AWS). Thank you for your help and suggestions.
OK! next instalment … I signed up to a new email address with our hosting provider (Siteground) but they appear to have 400 emails an hour limit which means that a good proportion of emails aren’t being sent. I’m using Easy WP SMTP plugin. Can anyone recommend a paid version of an SMTP plugin that would be able to cope with sending a few thousand emails notifications per day? Thank you!
Will do – thank you so much for your help!
Thank you so much for the plugin recommendation. It solved the problem (brilliant!) and then I started getting these error messages and the emails stopped sending again.
EMAIL DELIVERY ERROR: the plugin WP Mail SMTP v2.0.0 logged this error during the last time it tried to send an email:
Mailer: Default (none)
PHPMailer was able to connect to SMTP server but failed while trying to send an email.
Please review your WP Mail SMTP settings in plugin admin area. Consider running an email test after fixing it.
Also “could not instantiate mail function” message appeared in the mail logs.
Is it possible to point me in the right direction to resolve this? Many thanks.
Yes, I have installed the SMTP plugin but unfortunately, it has made no difference so far. You can see the names of the people who have subscribed but even when the new plugin is in use, and I look at the mailing logs, a number of names are still missing. Interestingly – I receive notifications from one Forum I’ve subscribed to but not the other.
Thanks for the reply! I’ve installed an email log and it turns out that at least 30 people who have subscribed to one forum (me included on another email address) aren’t receiving any notifications at all. They aren’t actually even being sent from the Forum (let alone being received). It’s as though there is some block between someone subscribing and the notifications being sent out. Help!
