Title: Postie plugin stopped recognizing valid users Last modified: October 19, 2016 --- # Postie plugin stopped recognizing valid users * Resolved [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) * (@sstowell) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/) * Emails to postie mail account used to work, but now it fails to recognize & parse the email headers with the following notification in the subject line: Corvidae Press: Unauthorized Post Attempt from No “from” content in the above & debug shows: Postie [debug]: No ‘from’ header found * I tried this: Deactivated then Uninstalled Postie. But when I reinstalled Postie, all the settings were already configured so … this may not have cleared up any problems there. Still fails. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 26 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8326232) * Please try switching “Connection” to “Sockets”. * If that doesn’t work try switching “Mail Protocol” to IMAP-SSL. If you change“ Mail Protocol” you will also need to change the port. * Thread Starter [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) * (@sstowell) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8326275) * These settings fail to connect with the mail server when I test the config. The only combination that connects is POP3 with port 110. * Note the failure started _before_ the lasted update of Postie… - This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/). * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8326395) * Are you using Sockets or cURL for the Connection setting? * [pesce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pesce/) * (@pesce) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8326877) * I believe the OP is connecting just fine… the problem is in the parsing… otherwise, there wouldn’t be an email to check! * I am having the same exact issue… connects, downloads the emails and errors out with no “from” in header… although there is a from and the postie debug shows it. * I am using curl - This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [pesce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pesce/). - This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [pesce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pesce/). * Thread Starter [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) * (@sstowell) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8329541) * Yes, cURL is my setting. I tried sockets but the TEST CONFIG _fails_ with sockets, TEST CONFIG _also fails_ with POP3-SSL & port 993. TEST CONFIG connects/succeeds with POP3 & CURL, and postie reliably detects the email I send to the Postie email address. ValidatePoster: post postie_filter_email3 Invalid sender: ! Not adding email! MailToRecipients: send mail MailToRecipients: return to sender 1 * To: [sandra@firstraven.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/sandra@firstraven.com?output_format=md) * From: =?utf-8?b?Q29ydmlkYWUgUHJlc3M=?= MailToRecipients: sending reject mail Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/ptartist/public_html/corvidaepress.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/ postie/postie-functions.php on line 1788 * Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/ ptartist/public_html/corvidaepress.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions. php on line 1791 * Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/ ptartist/public_html/corvidaepress.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions. php on line 1794 * Warning: First parameter must either be an object or the name of an existing class in /home/ptartist/public_html/corvidaepress.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/postie/ postie-functions.php on line 1798 * A copy of the message has been forwarded to the administrator. Ignoring email– not authorized. Mail fetch complete, 1 emails memory at end of email processing: 32277016 * (note that I do _NOT_ get a copy of the email with the error, only an empty email with this error message in the Subject line: Corvidae Press: Unauthorized Post Attempt from ) - This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/). * [pesce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pesce/) * (@pesce) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8329576) * Yes exactly my problem. * The part that is probably making it fail is in bold * From: **=?utf-8?b?Q29ydmlkYWUgUHJlc3M=?=** * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8329622) * There appears to be some difference in the cURL versions. Please let me know what version of cURL you have. * To see the version click the debug button. You should see something like: * ``` Starting mail fetch Postie Version: 1.8.5 Wordpress Version: 4.6.1 PHP Version: 7.0.10 OS: Windows NT WALLEN 6.2 build 9200 (Windows 8 Professional Edition) i586 POSTIE_DEBUG: On Time: 2016-10-19 15:46:40 GMT Error log: C:/Windows/Temp/php7_errors.log TMP dir: C:\Windows\TEMP/ Postie is in D:\source\Postie\wp35\wp-content\plugins\postie/ cURL version: 7.49.1 ``` * Thread Starter [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) * (@sstowell) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8329658) * Note older PHP version. Not sure if the cURL version is here in the version_number array value, or is missing, but here is the start of the debug output: * postiePostie Settings (v1.8.5) Starting mail fetch Postie Version: 1.8.5 Wordpress Version: 4.6.1 PHP Version: 5.6.27 OS: Linux siteground212.com 3.12.18-clouder0# 6 SMP Thu Sep 15 14:00:54 EEST 2016 x86_64 POSTIE_DEBUG: On Time: 2016-10-19 15:54:22 GMT Error log: php_errorlog TMP dir: /tmp/ Postie is in /home/ptartist/ public_html/corvidaepress.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/postie/ Cron: On Alternate Cron: Off wp_content_path: /home/ptartist/public_html/corvidaepress.com/wp/wp- content postie_getemails: Connecting to mail.ptartist.com:110 (pop3) Connecting via cURL Array ( [version_number] => 471555 [age] => 3 [features] => 640541 [ ssl_version_number] => 0 [version] => 7.50.3 [host] => x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [ssl_version] => OpenSSL/1.0.2j [libz_version] => 1.2.3 [protocols] => Array ( [0] => dict - This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/). * Thread Starter [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) * (@sstowell) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8329789) * FYI: requested & got updated to PHP7, but that does not change the Postie problem. * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8329949) * [@sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) yes, seems to be something with cURL 7.50.3. * Can you switch to sockets now that you’re on PHP 7? * [pesce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pesce/) * (@pesce) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8330047) * My host does not support sockets unfortunately. * Thread Starter [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) * (@sstowell) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8330079) * Pretty sure that Sockets are not supported on SiteGround based on previous Chat, but I will verify. * Can I uninstall and get an older version of Postie? * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8330129) * Yes, you can get the previous version here: [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/postie.1.7.32.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/postie.1.7.32.zip) * [pesce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pesce/) * (@pesce) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8330146) * is there a way to export current settings? * Thread Starter [sstowell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sstowell/) * (@sstowell) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-plugin-stopped-recognizing-valid-users/#post-8330180) * I’ll try this previous version: thank you. 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