WordPress email help

  • Truefire

    (@truefire)


    9 years ago

    I have had wordpress up and running for sometime through godaddy. It has recently come to my attention that I am not receiving emails through the wordpress site. I have tried a number of plugins such as Easy WP SMTP, setting that up using aols smtp server address. Plus, prior to that, tried some test runs with other plugins but all to no avail.

    Every test email function that I attempt are never sent. I have tried numerous times across some of the more prominent, sought after mail plugins. Called godaddy to ensure there was nothing wrong in-house.

    I have the ‘Contact Form 7′ plugin activated and have received emails through that contact form in the past without issue. Now I cannot receive any emails using that form. I attempted both last night and today several times, to no avail. Never received one although the contact form advises ’email sent successfully’ after striking the send key.

    The only email related plugin activated and installed at the moment is the ‘Easy WP SMTP’, and I am receiving the following error message when trying to send test email through that:

    SMTP connect() failed.

    Could anyone advise?
    Chris

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  • Jason Hendriks

    (@jasonhendriks)

    Your ports are blocked. Because GoDaddy blocks them. Did you try this prominent, sough-after mail plugin? Because it would have told you that ??

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/postman-smtp/

    If you have access to cPanel at GoDaddy, enable the Remote Mall Exchanger function and then hook the plugin up to localhost port 25. That should work for your AOL mail.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter Truefire

    (@truefire)

    Thanks Jason, very helpful sounding info. Will check into. THanks a million.

    Thread Starter Truefire

    (@truefire)

    Jason, I checked into that tidbit a little bit further but unable to definitively locate a sector inside godaddy’s ‘remote mail exchanger’ for which to activate said function and to enter the port #25. I looked in every nook and cranny associated with my account, searched out help, etc;. Just not successful in locating.

    I could have called godaddy but I’d rather not even go that route. Seemingly such a disservice to many of their tech reps when callin in.

    I was wondering about that plugin. Curious to know how it would benefit me with the contact form in my wordpress, if my wordpress is actually associated with godaddy anyway. How would it benefit me if godaddy is actually searching for a ” —name—@domain name” anyway..Looking for domain name registered with them apparently.

    Well how would that plugin in benefit me? I’m just trying to determine how it would.

    Thanks for anything.

    Chris

    You can find that setting in the cPanel in the Email section under the MX Entry option. There is a radio button to set it to either Remote Mail Exchanger or Local Mail Exchanger

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