Title: Multisite capability problem
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Multisite capability problem

 *  [frisco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frisco/)
 * (@frisco)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-capability-problem/)
 * Great plugin. The basic email functionality works perfectly.
 * However, on multisite where the plugin is activated (or not) on a site by site
   basis, you seem to have a little problem with capabilities.
 * Typically, an Administrator role would run a site, but your capability name of‘
   manage_postman_smtp’ isn’t assigned to an admin and if you have a check for an
   administrator role, it doesn’t seem to be working. As a result, a regular admin
   can’t see the plugin settings screens (they don’t appear in the menus), even 
   after the plugin is activated. If you know the URL’s, you get a permissions error.
   A superadmin can see them on the menus and successfully reach them because superadmins
   by default have all capabilities.
 * A workaround is to activate [https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/)
   and to add a custom capability of ‘manage_postman_smtp’ to the Administrator 
   role. That way, an admin can effectively use the plugin.
 * Also, it looks like lines 5 & 6 of PostmanAdminController.php are a duplicate
   of:
 * require_once ‘PostmanState.php’;
 * Hope that helps.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-capability-problem/)
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