Prestashop 1.6 sending mail

[sgtz47]

After installing prestashop 1.6 from the x10hosting script, I found that it can't send any mails.
If choose the option "Use php mail" inside the ADVANCED e-MAIL PARAMETERS, it says that the mail is sent, but nothing is sent.
If changing it to "Set my own smtp" and configuring gmail this error is shown ... "Error: Please check your configuration The SMTP connection failed to start [smtp.gmail.com:25]: fsockopen returned Error Number 110 and Error String 'Connection timed out'"

Hope someone can help with this...

 

[essellar]

External SMTP is disabled for Free Hosting servers; all mail needs to go through x10Hosting's SMTP and outbound spam filter. All outbound email needs to originate from an email address that exists on your hosting account (you cannot use anything else in the From header) and must have a plain text part (and preferably be plain text), otherwise it will be silently discarded by the outbound spam filter. And there is a cap of 100 emails per hour; exceeding the cap will "greylist" your account on the SMTP server (accidents happen; you can have a greylisting removed), and exceeding it repeatedly will blacklist it (it won't be an "accident" anymore at that point).

Free Hosting isn't really designed to be an e-commerce solution, or even anything that a business would rely on for branding/marketing, and it's not really appropriate for those uses. There are a lot of restrictions in place, some because of the high potential for abuse that comes with a free service that only needs a working email address to sign up for, and some because of the need to share a limited number of resources over a very large number of accounts per server (to reduce costs to the point that free hosting is possible at all). And there is no Service Level Agreement (SLA), so while you may be emotionally justified in getting huffy about downtime or configuration errors that affect your service, you aren't morally or legally entitled to much complaining. If you're running a business online, you really need to be paying for hosting.