Aaron

My blog is hosted on a shared Windows web server running IIS. My web host does not support WordPress’ ability to send e-mails as notifications without a modification. This problem occurs in WordPress 2.3, and WordPress 2.5, but may occur in other versions.

Thankfully, there’s a simple fix without requiring any modification of source code.

To enable e-mail notifications, I downloaded this plug-in:

WP-Mail-SMTP (download here)

Once you’ve enabled the Plug-in, you’ll find the Email settings here:

then

Then, provide the needed information and click the Update Options button. Use the Test Email form to make sure everything works.

After a frustrating experience with The BlogEngine.NET and no desire whatsoever to troubleshoot the problem beyond a few simple tests, I’ve switched my blog to using WordPress. I generally liked BlogEngine, but for some unknown reason, my current feed reader (Google Reader), kept reporting that old blog posts had changed when in fact they really had not. I know it wasn’t just me either having this problem, so I hope that this annoying issue does not repeat itself with WordPress.

I’ve got a few easy ways to subscribe to the new feed: