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Anyone here use Infinite Responder?

by spearce000
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Perhaps somebody could answer a question for me - because it's driving me nuts!


I've installed Infinite Responder as per the instructions. The Cron is working perfectly, but I'm no messages are being sent out. If I try to send out a test mailing, I get the following on the screen if I run sendmails.php manually, or in the cron notification e-mail if it's running automatically:


Loading...
Initializing...
Pre-caching the database...
Checking responder messages...
Responder msg to sub #1
Checking newsletter messages...
Updating counts...
Done!


When I go to my inbox there's nothing .


I've installed IR on other servers before, and never encountered this problem - it's always worked perfectly straight out of the box. My hosting company tells me that PHP mail isn't disabled on this server, so it should work - except it doesn't! Has anybody else encountered this problem? If so, how did you solve it?


Thanks in advance!


Shaun
#infinite #responder
  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    I don't use Infinite Responder myself (prefer not to self-host autoresponders) but I have set it up in the past and it usually works fine.

    You might try running a simple Mail test script on the site to verify that mail is indeed working on your host. You can find one here:
    How to Send Email from a PHP Script - About Email

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author majick
    There's a few bugs in the original Infinite Responder... though it still works pretty well.
    If you're interested I've done a major updated version ported into a Wordpress plugin:

    WP Infinity Responder
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    • Profile picture of the author gb1982
      Originally Posted by majick View Post

      There's a few bugs in the original Infinite Responder... though it still works pretty well.
      If you're interested I've done a major updated version ported into a Wordpress plugin:

      WP Infinity Responder
      I'm a huge fan of Infinite Responder, so I tried to download this but the link went to another page that looks like you've been hacked. Can you take a look?
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  • Profile picture of the author angelfire4xx
    Hi I'd love to use WP infinity responder but the download link provided here didn't work. Where can I download it? I really like Infinite Responder - use it all the time. The description of the WP version looks very interesting
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    • Profile picture of the author majick
      hmmmm... yes there was a database access problem on the server, which was crashing the download monitor link... I restarted the server so it should be fine now...

      if anyone has problems like this in the future you can also use:
      http://pluginreview.net/downloads/wp...nder-1-x-x.zip
      (remembering to replace 1-x-x with latest version)

      cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author majick
    while I'm here I recommend using wp smtp or similar plugin with mandrill servers to improve deliverability. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author angelfire4xx
    Does anyone know if it's possible to use Infinite Responder with Sendgrid? My domains are hosted on a Hostgator shared IP and deliverability is sometimes poor. My lists are quite small and I want to keep using IR but can't see how to put in Sendgrid smtp settings.
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    • Profile picture of the author majick
      Originally Posted by angelfire4xx View Post

      Does anyone know if it's possible to use Infinite Responder with Sendgrid? My domains are hosted on a Hostgator shared IP and deliverability is sometimes poor. My lists are quite small and I want to keep using IR but can't see how to put in Sendgrid smtp settings.
      if you're using the original script there is not a place to put any SMTP settings unfortunately, it just uses the php mail() function... it is possible to set something up on the server to send all mail() via smtp, but you would need to set up something like MSMTP via SSH.

      if you are using the Wordpress version, while there is still no SMTP config available, you can more easily use an SMTP plugin to send the mail (as it uses wp_mail() not mail() )...
      I recommend "Postman SMTP" plugin now it more modern and has won out in my testing over other smtp plugins.

      if the first option is what you're using and setting up msmtp is too complex, you could just install wordpress as a framework layer somewhere just to use the newer infinity responder and smtp setup,.. but then you'd also need to copy your existing data from your database tables across to the wordpress database via export and import using phpmyadmin (that is doable though as the table structure is unchanged.)
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      • Profile picture of the author angelfire4xx
        Thank you so much Majick, that is incredibly helpful
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