I cant send emails to gmail

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essellar

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You are only allowed to send from an existing email account belonging to your Free Hosting account using x10Hosting's mail server; external SMTP is blocked and mails with spoofed From headers are silently discarded. This is a malicious activity control measure; there is a very high recovery cost associated with removing x10Hosting's servers (yet again) from spam blocklists due to spam/phishing emails, so outgoing mails are monitored.
 

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That's the question I was also trying to figure out - so in regards to the forums for my site, would I make the announcement that now using @gmail.com email addresses to create accounts are not recommended because of it being abused?

Just checking.
 

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...so in regards to the forums for my site, would I make the announcement that now using @gmail.com email addresses to create accounts are not recommended because of it being abused?

in short - no
What they (support) are saying is - any Email SENT from YOUR x10hosting free-hosting account must have a "FROM:" Email address that you setup in your account

IMO if your script (or CMS) sends a Email to your Gmail account - it should also send a copy to a Email address in your x10hosting free-hosting account as a backup

BTW for weeks now my account on server [ Level ] will not send Email to any other address like my Email address in my x10hosting Premium account or my Gmail account
 

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@bdistler is correct — the FROM header address has to be an address that belongs to your hosting account. And outgoing mail has to go through the x10Hosting SMTP server for spam filtering. (For things like contact forms being sent to your own external email address, you can always use the ReplyTo header to make it easier to reply to inquiries, etc.)

As for mails actually getting to where they're supposed to go, there are a whole number of things that can get in the way. The usual culprit is that the mail sending queue gets filled up (please remember that you're sharing a server with a whole lot of people who aren't necessarily playing nice, and no matter how good the admins get at playing whack-a-mole, there are always more new moles signing up every day), and when the queue gets large enough it may get suck and needs to be purged. That can, unfortunately, kill some legitimate pending messages without any sort of failure notice. It happens from time to time as well that an email service decides (because of user reports) to silently discard mails from x10Hosting Free Hosting servers. That problem usually takes a while to discover (from common problems among several support tickets) and additional time to fix with the email service provider. Sorry, folks, but that's the sort of thing that comes along with semi-anonymous free hosting; with paid hosting, users are usually on the hook for the cost of the damage they do (and are at least going to lose what they've paid so far), so the frequency of problems is far lower.
 

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"From" header address you say? And that could be like the email address we used to create the hosting account, or the emails that we've set up in the hosting account itself?

How I did it with mine is that for the forums part of my site, the "From" header is using the email that I set up for site forum correspondence when emails are being sent from there.

Hopefully I've got this right.
 

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It has to be an account created ON your hosting account (that is, no external email addresses).
 
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