Bluehost, wordpress and the registration mail From address

During the setup of wordpress, I realized that registration emails were sent out with a strange login(at)box.bluehost.com, instead of something more user friendly, like wordpress(at)the_site. A little investigation in the sources lead to the finding that wordpress uses the php mail() call, and the From address is correctly set to wordpress(at)the_site, therefore the wordpress setup was not responsible. After some tinkering I found the solution.

Basically, when you set up wordpress on bluehost, the From address in the mail your users will receive when they register is the default “catch all” provided by bluehost as your login unless you create a wordpress@your_site email address from the cPanel. After you create the wordpress mail account, the registration mail will be sent out as wordpress@your_site with no further intervention.

This entry was written by Stefano Borini, posted on August 30, 2007 at 9:09 pm, filed under Administrative, Computer Science. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.