Title: Send Test Email using wrong server
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Send Test Email using wrong server

 *  [dbachen_diamond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbachen_diamond/)
 * (@dbachen_diamond)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-test-email-using-wrong-server/)
 * I have been struggling with this plugin all day today. While the connectivity
   test works, and the diagnostic works and shows the remote SMTP server in the 
   settings, the send test email does not work.
 * Instead, it tries to connect to the local exim instance and then it fails to 
   authenticate because it’s using the credentials for the remote server.
 * Any ideas why the send email test would not be connecting to the remote server?
 * OS: Linux centos1.xxxxx.com 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 11:36:42 UTC
   2015 x86_64
    PHP: Linux 5.5.30 C PHP Dependencies: iconv=Yes, spl_autoload=Yes,
   openssl=Yes, sockets=Yes, allow_url_fopen=Yes, mcrypt=Yes, zlib_encode=Yes WordPress:
   4.3.2 en_US UTF-8 WordPress Theme: TheFox WordPress Plugins: LayerSlider WP, 
   Contact Form 7, Custom Facebook Feed, Image Widget, WPBakery Visual Composer,
   Postman SMTP, Revolution Slider, TheFox Custom Post, Social Media and Share Icons(
   Ultimate Social Media), WP User Avatar WordPress wp_mail Filter(s): wp_staticize_emoji_for_email
   Postman: 1.7.2 Postman Sender Domain (Envelope|Message): domain.com | domain.
   com Postman Prevent Message Sender Override (Email|Name): No | No Postman Active
   Transport: SMTP (smtp:tls:plain://mail.domain.com:587) Postman Active Transport
   Status (Ready|Connected): Yes | Yes Postman Deliveries (Success|Fail): 0 | 1
 * Please realize that for log safety, I’ve replaced the actual domainname with “
   domain”.
 * Yet, when you send the test email, instead of going to mail.domain.com, you will
   see that it’s connecting to the local exim install
 * smtp:tls:plain://mail.domain.com:587
 * 220-centos1.xxxxxx.com ESMTP Exim 4.86 #2 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:15:23 -0500
    220-
   We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/
   or bulk e-mail. EHLO localhost 250-centos1.xxxxxxx.com Hello localhost [10.10.0.12]
   250-SIZE 52428800 250-8BITMIME 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-STARTTLS
   250 HELP STARTTLS 220 TLS go ahead EHLO localhost 250-centos1.xxxxxx.com Hello
   localhost [10.10.0.12] 250-SIZE 52428800 250-8BITMIME 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH
   PLAIN LOGIN 250 HELP AUTH PLAIN 334 [password removed] 435 Unable to authenticate
   at present
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 * Last reply from: [dbachen_diamond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbachen_diamond/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-test-email-using-wrong-server/)
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