Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog

Well, I discovered a major problem. Somehow the PHP Wordpress code is not emailing when it needs to. That means that noone can register or get their lost password sent to them until I fix this.

Those of you who have registered on my old forum can login and post comments using your old userid and password, like Dave did on yesterday’s post, but nobudy new will be able to.

I’m not really sure what the problem is, so it will take a bit of detective work.

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Update (2 hours later)

Phew! I found the problem. I was sure that the SMTP Host name I had to set up was my outgoing SMTP server name: mail.beholdgenealogy.com. But no, all I had to do was change that setting to: localhost and the emails started flowing.

The roundabout way of finding such the solution is always interesting to me. In this case, I found another SMTP plugin for Wordpress and was going to try it instead of the one I was using. Looking through its PHP code, I saw a comment on its “host” parameter that said: “If localhost doesn’t work for you, check with your host for the SMTP hostname”. That prompted me to try using “localhost”.

Mom passed away last Monday. I feel she’s with me wherever I am. I hope this feeling never goes away.

But it’s time to hanker down, finish this new site and get back to Behold again.

So this entry in my blog will be the start of my new site, and I’ll try to now proceed with at least some progress every day.

About a week ago, my Mom took very ill, advancing into her final days with terminal lung cancer. So I have not worked on the new site or Behold and it will be at least a week before I get back to it.

My Mom is 84, has had a full and satisfying life and has said she is ready to go - it is her time. She is a strong woman and doesn’t want anyone to be sad or worry about her.

It is always tough losing a loved one. But she’ll live on in our memories. And as a genealogist, it is my plan to record as many of these memories as possible so that her future descendants and relatives will know about her and her soul will live on.