For my simple contact form: http://www.streamingfreemovies.com/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,3/ I cannot get the mail to work. I have a contact called "name" in the contact component and set it to my email address. I am guesing that the form sends an email to that contact if it is the only one. Then, in global configuration i have tried finagling with all the settings. I set it to "sendmail", Ive put my email in under the "Mail From"..it still doesn't work. Ive tried a thousand other things but i really can't list them all right here..Ive done what joomla says to do here: http://help.joomla.org/content/view/51/68/1/7/ and have had no luck. Any ideas?
First, is it 1.0.x or 1.5.x ? If it's 1.0, and it seems so to me, you should really consider upgrading to 1.5.x version. Anyway, are you sure that it's because of Joomla? It looks to me that your server is screwed up a little bit. I can't remember if Joomla supports this, but try switching from sendmail to PHP mail() function and/or SMTP. SMTP always works for me.
It's 1.0 and upgrading is kind of out of the question (too much work) Ive tried the PHP mail function and the SMTP server; setting the username to the username set in cpanel for an email account i created ON the domain, and the correct p/w ofcourse but still no luck. This is becoming a real problem because i am not getting the vital feedback that i need to know what to fix with my site structure.
Hmm, it really should work with SMTP server. Are you sure that you are entering correct username? Sometimes usernames are in form of e.g. "feedback+domain.com" instead of just "feedback". If it still doesn't work, I suggest you to do the following things: 1. Get some feedback component for joomla, other than the one built in. 2. Write some basic mailing script on your own (or search the internet for existing one) 3. Try installing some other CMS (such as Wordpress) and see if it works. If none of these work, then it's surely problem with your server. BTW, upgrading from J1.0 to 1.5 is pretty easy - you just need to run one script (unless you did some major modifications).
well it turns out my hosting (midphase) can't send emails to yahoo: http://www.midphasehelp.com/support/questions.php?questionid=562 just used my college email, and it worked.