Sunday, 01 April 2007

Joomla Mailer Setup with GoDaddy hosting (or other hosts for that matter)

Article Audience: Webmasters

 

Create a Sender Email

  1. Log on to your GoDaddy Account. Click on Email > My Email Account


    2. GoDaddy My Email Account

  2. Click on Manage Account

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  3. If you do not have any email accounts, create one. Use an email which makes sense such as This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , thus if anyone replies to the email sent by the web server, you will receive the email.

Setup your Joomla Mailer

  1. Log on to your Joomla Administration. Go to Global Configuration. Click on the Mail tab. Ensure that you the following settings. Remeber to insert the password you setup on your email address. 

    Joomla Mail Setup


  2. Setup the Contact Us form. Go to Components > Contacts > Manage Contacts

    Manage Joomla Contacts


  3. If you want that your contact form sends emails to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it make sure that you have configured the Contact User's email address to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

    Joomla Contacts Setup


  4. Try using your Contact Us form by sending an email to an address that you monitor. You should receive an email similar to this "This is an enquiry email via http://www.yourdomain.com from <email address you specified>". Or else try to register a new user and check if your web server sends the email.
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Clayton  - Thank You   |70.123.124.xxx |2007-06-18 15:05:13
Thank you for taking the time to post this. You have no idea.......
Neil  - Thank you sooo much   |208.138.28.xxx |2007-10-05 14:00:34
I've been trying to figure how to get the rightconfigurations for the contact
form working on godaddy. This works! Thanks a million buddy, God Bless you.
dude  - :(   |202.163.208.xxx |2008-02-18 00:45:28
snot working for me
eric  - Clayton - Ain't there no furt   |80.87.76.xxx |2008-02-20 20:04:12
I tried what you said , but i can't seem to send an e-mail. Is there any
configuration I need to do.
Paul   |87.201.196.xxx |2008-04-25 06:52:21
Thanks for this. I've just spent 2 hours trying to figure things out, and the
problem was sorted in under 2 mins with your tut.
juan  - mail library in godaddy   |201.224.65.xxx |2008-06-24 22:58:42
go to the FAQ mail php Godaddys requires to include a library to use the mail
function in php hope it helps
msahasra  - error message displayed   |116.50.2.xxx |2008-07-03 11:18:43
Hi,

I am working on mail settings from quite long time now.

I have set as you
said.but its giving me this error:
"unable to connect to
smtp.gmail.com:25"
even i tried changing to required port 465 for gmail but
another error which is:
"unable to connect to smtp.gmail.com:25"
that is
its not updating the port number

Please help!!!!

Thanks
Manasi
Anonymous  - re: :(   |208.189.39.xxx |2009-01-21 05:05:10
dude wrote:
snot working for me


try this
solution 

http://supertubee.com/index.php?option=com_ccboa rd&view=po
stlist&forum=53&topic=3
supertubee  - supertubee     |208.189.39.xxx |2009-01-21 05:06:00
try this solution here

http://supertubee.com/index.php?option=com_c
cboard&view=postlist&forum=53&topic=3
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