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This is partly a reminder to myself and partly a note to the community as a whole. Ever since I set up screenflicker.com to use Google Apps for email I’ve not been able to receive emails sent from my WordPress install. After doing loads of searches and double or triple checking all my WP settings, I hadn’t found a solution. Until now.

One of my searches for answers included searching the WP support forums. I found this topic that seemed promising. It still didn’t spell out the solution I needed though, until tyr responded to my query.

tyr is using a (mt) Grid Server and discovered that in order to receive the WP comment notifications he needed to turn off email in his control panel.

Since I’m using a (dv) 3 Server from (mt) and hosting multiple domains/sites, the steps are a little different. Here’s what I had to do:

• Log into my Plesk admin interface
• Select the domain area of the admin (and subsequently select the appropriate domain)
• Under the “Services” list, click on “Mail”
• In the “Mail” screen, click “Switch Off”

Bingo, bango, bongo. After a quick test comment on an old post I was in business. Now my Google hosted email can receive all the comment spam-y goodness that comes with having a blog.