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PHP mail vs SMTP with GF + AWeber

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  1. Andre
    Member

    I'm running GF 1.6.2 and AWeber add-on 1.0...

    I guess my question is - does GF work with:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

    ... which Carl Hancock cited here:
    http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/email-notifications-stopped-working-all-of-a-sudden

    Here's my problem...

    GF won't send email signups to AWeber. Nothing. Nada. So I tried setting up WP-Mail-SMTP.

    It works. As in, AWeber actually receives the lead info ... *kinda*.

    WP-Mail-SMTP (and I've tested others too) changes the FROM email to that of my Google Apps email account.

    So instead of the name/email of the lead from the GF ending up in AWeber ... it's parsing my Google SMTP email in as the from email. D'oh.

    Any ideas?

    Andre

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday December 22, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Currently the AWeber Add-On works by sending an email to your AWeber list using the subscribers name and email address as the From Name and From Email. This is due to limitations that existed with AWeber's API when we created the AWeber Add-On.

    If the WP-Mail-SMTP overrides the From Name and From Email by setting it to your SMTP account From then that is going to cause a problem with the current version of the AWeber Add-On.

    IF your web server itself doesn't want to send email unless you use the SMTP Plugin, that too is going to be problematic. You may want to check with your web host to see why your web server won't send email via the WordPress wp_mail() function.

    The good news is we will be updating the AWeber Add-On to support adding subscribers via AWeber's NEW API capabilities in January. This will allow us to add the new subscriber via an API call rather than having to send an email. They finally updated their API to allow new subscribers to be added via the API so we can now update our AWeber Add-On to support this.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday December 22, 2011 | Permalink

  3. Andre
    Member

    Carl,

    Thanks.

    I use Rackspace, and (sadly) all non-authenticated (SMTP) email - all php mail() and/or wp_mail() function email - is piped through to their bulk/open mail relay.

    This relay is normally always loaded with a massive mail queue ... and if it get too large, they just purge it (how nice - not!).

    We use WishList Member too (also a WP plugin) and that also ins't sending emails to AWeber.

    I guess I'll just wait for the NEW API version of your AWeber plugin.

    Andre

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday December 22, 2011 | Permalink

  4. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    @Andre Updating the AWeber Add-On is high up on our list of things to do in January. The developer who works on those projects is currently on vacation for the holidays so it's one of the things they will be working on when they return.

    The update to support the new AWeber API is not only going to make adding subscribers more reliably since it will do so via an API call rather than email, it will also allow us to fully integrate with AWeber custom fields like we do with MailChimp and Campaign Monitor.

    Thanks!

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday December 22, 2011 | Permalink

  5. jpmorganjr
    Member

    I'm stuck in the same place on this. I'm using the "Configure SMTP" plugin to send WP emails with authenticated gmail SMTP. Emails are sent elsewhere in WP, but nothing is making it to Aweber.

    Any idea when this will be fixed? It's the only feature I need.

    Thanks!

    Posted 12 years ago on Sunday January 15, 2012 | Permalink