smf forum not sending email

[direlegi]

is there a fix to smf forums not sending email via php or smtp?

 

[Anna]

First step would be to check that the configured from address is one that is actually present under email accounts in the control panel for your account. The email server won't send if the from address doesn't match an existing one as a spam (spoofing) prevention method.

 

[direlegi]

First step would be to check that the configured from address is one that is actually present under email accounts in the control panel for your account. The email server won't send if the from address doesn't match an existing one as a spam (spoofing) prevention method.

It is, even have tested it from webmail and it is working. It just won't send from smf forum setup

Enable Mail Queue
Mail type
(PHP default) SMTP
SMTP server
SMTP port
SMTP username
SMTP password
(confirm)

both php and smtp have been set up. I did check the error logs and I believe php mail send has been disabled with x10hosting, but smtp doesn't send out either.

 

[essellar]

SMTP isn't available AFAIK; PHP mail should work from a real address associated with your account - provided that the content isn't "spammy" as far as the outbound mail filter is concerned. Messages with no body content, HTML-only mail (mail that doesn't have a plain text part), messages with no subject AND messages that just say "Testing" will all be silently discarded, as will anything that looks like typical spam.

 

[direlegi]

Well I've been trying to get it to send a notification to my gmail when a new member joins. Would gmail be the problem and I would need to use say, thunderbird or some other pc based email client? Thanks!

 

[direlegi]

I've noticed from my logs that using php, the mail gets sent, just never received in either a pc based client or web mail - aka gmail.