Sometimes WordPress just won’t send notification emails of any kind – lost password, user registration, notifications of comments, or messages from contact forms etc. yet the installation is otherwise working perfectly. This can be very frustrating, especially when it didn’t send any right from the moment it was installed. There are various suggestions as to how to resolve the problem, including: creating wordpress@yourdomain.co.uk as an email address in your domain’s email control panel, using a script/plug-in called ‘no-sender.php’, and various intimidating looking modifications to WordPress files that you shouldn’t alter. While I didn’t try the latter, neither of the first two solved the problem.

The solution that worked, at the time I was using WordPress 2.6.2, was the wp-mail-smtp plug-in. It was quick and easy to set up. Hope it works for you too. Bonne Chance!