Please try this again with a different address! Your regular e-mail address (the one you have the notifications sent to) should be just fine if you use a phony name! (WordPress auto-approves a comment only if both the e-mail address and name match, so the phony name should put you in the right position.)

Please also note that no verification link will be sent if Akismet (or sk2 or any plugin in that league) catches the comment and puts it in the spam queue.

You may also try posting a comment using my address (I will e-mail it to you) with the plugin turned on, so I can check my messages and/or mail server logs and see what can be done…

Thanks for your feedback by the way, as this will probably help me improve this plugin further.

http://www.meandmark.com/blog

I did get moderation messages sent to my admin email address, but I turned them off because I was getting too many spam messages. I do get emails when someone legit (has had one comment approved) comments on my posts.

The problem I am having is no email is sent to the comment author’s email address. As a test, I posted a comment on one of my posts using a phony name and my Yahoo email address. I signed on to my Yahoo account to check for the verification email, but there was no email.

If you go to my blog URL, I have a contact link where you can send me an email if you would prefer to discuss this further via email.

Is e-mail delivery from your blog working in general? I.e. do you get moderation messages to the admin e-mail address? Do post authors receive notification messages when there are new comments on their posts? If not, then this plugin will probably not work either. You may be able to get it to work, though… Please bear with me while I am still working on this page:

http://ten-fingers-and-a-brain.com/wordpress-plugins/comment-email-verify/troubleshooting/

Please note that the verification link is sent to the mail address specified by the comment author, not to the blog admin.

Your comment is awaiting moderation.
If you verify your address your comment will be approved immediately. Instructions have been sent to you by e-mail.

But no email was sent. I am using the default settings for the plug-in. I have a wordpress email address for my domain name. Is there something else I have to do to send the email to the commenter?

Just today I changed the code of my local dev version to block just the php file used for posting comments, not the entire blog. That way somebody whose computer has been hijacked by a botnet and ended up on the blacklist can still read the blog. Log analysis has shown that almost all bots access only that one file anyway so this doesn’t even mean any extra traffic. — This is the state I wanted to have this in before I insert anything into .htaccess by default. That feature is really up next.

Oh, and thanks for voting by the way.

Keep up the great work, this is an instant favorite. I also voted it up on Wordpress.

I’m happy things worked out for you, and yes: the new host may have been the trick. — There are a great number of things that can go wrong sending email from a PHP web application such as WordPress and I intend to add links to helpful articles to the contextual help… this is work in progress.