I'm trying to send mails using a special mailbox that was created via my hosting provider, asmallorange.com via cpanel. Problem: if I enter the credentials and host into the mail config I do not get any errors, but the emails are never sent.. If I log into the mail account, there are also no mails in the sent folder.
At first I suspected that the credentials were wrong, but if I change any of them, then I get authentication errors. The problem is definitely not with the server since sending emails with gmail does work. This is not possible since this is not a personal website.
Anyone have experience with this? have you used the same hosting provider/cpanel software too? please let me know.
Just because a site can send emails through gmail does not discount the problem being with the server. It just means the site is skipping the server and going straight to gmail.
I have before used emails on a server (with Plesk rather than CPanel) and found it very hit and miss. But I would put my money on the problem being with the servers mail software. If you do get it working, chances are because its coming from an unknown server it will go into spam (might already be doing this if you haven't checked). This is why I would recommend to host your emails somewhere else like google apps (http://www.google.co.uk/intx/en/enterprise/apps/business/), lot less hassle for about 2$ a month!
Or use http://www.mailgun.com/ 10.000 free transactional emails every month + configuration is already set in Laravel
@cgoosey1: I can't just switch to Google apps since this is a customer application and it's unlikely that they are willing to migrate to google for one of their many apps..
I think Mailgun is probably the best option, I'll have to see if I get it working but that should not be too hard. Thx!
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