This post I'm targeting at Japh since I know he is somewhat familiar with wp-ecommerce plugin for wordpress.

I've just shifted to WebFaction and didn't realise its mail() function doesn't do anything. WebFaction disable it for shared servers. Doh! The problem is my receipts are dispatched via mail() as well as some extra stuff I included to autotically send the order to the supplier.

Is there an easy workaround you know of? Like something that rewrites the mail() function perhaps? I found http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#configure-smtp hoping it would do the job, and while Wordpress is now sending via this, wp-ecommerce isn't affected.

Any ideas? Quick fixes?

I've now installed SwiftMail http://swiftmailer.org/

Now to integrate it with wp-ecommerce transaction results page. At the very least, its interesting learning an entirely new method of sending mail beyond the old and worn out mail() function. I'm dissapointed though that wp-ecommerce haven't caught up.

Hey mate, I am fairly familiar with WordPress, WP e-Commerce, and WebFaction... so if I can't be of any help on this one... I'm leaving!

Anyway, I'd try this WP plugin if I were you, and see how that goes: http://www.callum-macdonald.com/code/wp-mail-smtp/

The premise being that WordPress has a wp_mail() function, that by default uses mail(). This plugin changes it to use SMTP instead (and gives you an options panel to configure it), and so hopefully if WP e-Commerce is written right, it should just be calling wp_mail() and will thusly be fixed!

Give it a shot and see how you go

Hey Japh! thanks for this. I was so excited hoping it would work, and the test smtp works with the plugin. but when it comes to wp-e-commerce it just doesn't seem to use it. Even though it clearly uses wp_mail() as the function to do the sending. I've grep'd all the code to see if there is anything in wp-e-commerce to see if they've done some of their own changes to the function but it doesn't appear they do. So technically it should work. I'm missing something.

For the time being I have got swiftmailer working.

Thanks anyways mate