@Kirk: I was getting the dementia!
@Aaron: I thought you where referring to something else. I am calling it from inside a function.

Got it. It was matter of making defining a variable. Stupid variables!

Whether it runs or not is entirely based on where you are calling that code. A function? Tied to what hook?

@Joe - Try using mail() instead of wp_mail()

That solved my problem ... although I must be getting dementia as I can't remember what my problem was, only that I had all sorts of problems because of the filters associated with wp_mail()

Thanks Aaron for your feedback.

$title and $content are getting filled up at beginning of the function. I requested a mail log from the host and shows nothing going through so what you mentioned that it is not getting run is probably the reason.

How do I make it run?

Code looks fine, it's probably not getting run though. Also where is the $title and $content variable getting filled?

hello!

I have a question.

I am trying to send a post by email using the following in a plugin.

$admin_email = get_option('admin_email');
$from_email = $admin_email;
$blog_name = get_option('blogname');
$message_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "From: " . $blog_name .  " <{$from_email}>\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"" . get_option('blog_charset') . "\"\n";
wp_mail($to, $title, $content, $message_headers);

I noticed that you have a similar code in the subscribe-by-email but coding here is not sending the email. Could you tell me if you see anything wrong here? or if the system is already sending an email via wp_mail() with another plugin would it block a second plugin from sending during the same "publish post" action ?

thanks,
Joe