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Not receiving notifications

  1. Every month my site takes submissions, and I use GF. This last month I had major problems with getting notifications. In the past it was rare and not a big deal. This time it was more than half. I have notifications set up so that I get one, and the person submitting gets one; neither party received it. Thankfully though the entries ARE there in my WP dashboard.

    My host is Godaddy, and I emailed them, as I'd read here that if the entries are in the WP dashboard, it's not a GF issue, its a host/webserver issue.
    they offered little help, not surprising, but told me this and it makes no sense to me.

    " In order to be able to send email through our hosting accounts that we offer you must use the following relay server in your code:

    relay-hosting.secureserver.net

    You do not need to provide a user name and password for this relay server as it does not require authentication."

    Might someone here have a better idea at whats going wrong and can explain it a little better to me? :)

    I don't currently have my GF form up right now on a web page, I take it down when the submission periods are over to prevent the people who don't read from submitting outside the submission period.
    thanks!

    Posted 14 years ago on Monday September 27, 2010 | Permalink
  2. You will probably want to use a SMTP plugin to force WordPress to send email using SMTP using their relay server. There is a free SMTP plugin here:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

    You will have to work with GoDaddy to configure it properly.

    Posted 14 years ago on Monday September 27, 2010 | Permalink