WordPress notifications not working with Office 365 – and the magic fix!

By Rebecca Markowitz • October 27, 2014 • 6 Comments

The Problem: All of a sudden, WordPress notifications (and Gravity Forms notifications as well) weren’t working from our client’s site. It turns out that WordPress admin notifications stopped working when they switched over to Office365.

To try and solve the problem, we installed the Easy WP SMTP plugin with the following SMTP settings:

smtp

However, the notifications still didn’t work!!!

The solution: If you are using cPanel, go to MX Entry and select Remote Mail Exchanger!

remote

Author: Rebecca Markowitz

Rebecca Markowitz has built over 100 WordPress sites for clients as Web Project Manager and WordPress specialist at illuminea. illuminea is a Jerusalem-based boutique web agency. WPGarage shows my dedicated relationship with WordPress over the years - full of love, laughs, tears, growth and strong drinks. L'chaim!

reenatanwar

The Problem: All of a sudden, WordPress notifications weren’t working from our client’s site. It turns out that WordPress admin notifications stopped working when they switched over to Office365.
Michael

Thank you Rebecca! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure this issue out. Notifications are working now with O365. 🙂
Alexandre

It work! Tks.
adrian

Thanks for the help,i searched a lot for something like to solve it, the solution worked perfect! hope others can benefit from this as well!
Christian Kuffner

Yes! Thank you so much, this was plaguing me for days.
Aaron Milan-Vega

Thank you so much. After the recent updates to WP 5.0, it broke my wordpress emails. But your solution fixed it. Best wishes.

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