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I am testing my contact form. I tried several times to send an email to myself at my gmail address. What am I missing? My settings are:
Site Email drdk84@gmail.com
Vendor Email drdk84@gmail.com
Email Configuration
Mail Send Type
smtp
SMTP Host
smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Username
drdk84@gmail.com
SMTP Password
[ hidden ]
SMTP Port
465
SMTP Security Protocol
ssl
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Addditional information:
When I attempted to send the test email, here is the message I got back.
Something went wrong
fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in SMTP.php on line 125
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Your host is blocking calls to the gmail server. This is quite usual.
Your best option is to send using the ‘mail’ setting rather than ‘smtp’, and setting a from address that matches your domain.
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Just host was not able to resolve this. They have escalated it and will get back to me..... maybe!
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I have a similar problem: all mail sent thru the site ( http://www.nathaliemoliavko-visotzky.com/fr/contact/ ) goes...in limbo! It never arrives at the destination, at all.
Mail Send Type: mail
SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com
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SMTP Host doesn't matter if you're using Send Type: mail
Have you checked spam folders?
Is the site email address one that is associated with the domain (nathaliemoliavko-visotzky.com?)
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Yes, it is the email for Nathalie.
If I use MAIL as mail send type, nothing in the other boxes matters?
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If I use MAIL as mail send type, nothing in the other boxes matters?
no
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Yes, it is the email for Nathalie.
Just to be clear, the site email ends in @nathaliemoliavko-visotzky.com
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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no, the site email is segami1@videotron.ca
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I've tried SMTP with their credentials (they are hosted on a different server than me) and I tried MAIL. Both do not work.
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any chance they can set up an email account tied to their hosting?
http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … mail_setup
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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I know it's not "kosher" but the site email is from a different provider/server than the site's own server.
So, I'm left with either create a mail address with the site's domain name ( something like email@nathaliemoliavko-visotzky.com)
or do away with the contact page altogether and just post contact information (like http://marccharlebois.com/marc_en/contact.php).
Last edited by pideja (2019-08-15 20:30:15)
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Finally decided that, for simplicity's sake, I removed the contact form and wrote the contact info.
By the way, could it be possible to have the email address as a link?
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Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Succeeded in creating a link this way in Backlight>Designer Pages>Contact Design>Page Copy
<p><strong><center>postal address</center></strong></p>
<p><strong><center>Cel.: phone number</center></strong></p>
<p><strong><center>mailto: <a href="email address">email address</a></strong></p>
Seems to work great.
Last edited by pideja (2019-08-15 22:24:39)
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<center> is deprecated.
Use inline css instead.
<p style=“text-align:center;”>your content</p>
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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<center> is deprecated
...it does center the text. But, is there a better way?
Use inline css instead.
Do you mean inserting these instructions in the CSS file rather than in the Page Content section of Backlight?
<p style=“text-align:center;”>your content</p>.
Tried this but it does not work. The text is all to the left side and on two lines.
But the main thing is that when I wrote this yesterday, it worked fine. Clicking on the link made my Outlook mail app display a pre-addressed message, ready to complete and send.
Today, however, I get a 404 error!
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I now am using
<a href="mailto:someone@yoursite.com?subject=Mail from Our Site">Email Us</a>
Still in
Backlight>Designer>Pages>Contact + CV>Design>Page Settings>Page CopyAnd it pops up a mail message, pre-addressed ready to fill-in and send.
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<center> is deprecated
...it does center the text. But, is there a better way?
Use inline css instead.
Do you mean inserting these instructions in the CSS file rather than in the Page Content section of Backlight?
<p style=“text-align:center;”>your content</p>.
Tried this but it does not work. The text is all to the left side and on two lines.
But the main thing is that when I wrote this yesterday, it worked fine. Clicking on the link made my Outlook mail app display a pre-addressed message, ready to complete and send.
Today, however, I get a 404 error!
<center> may work for now, but it is deprecated from html 5
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_center.asp
Inline css means you add it inline with your text on the page, like this:
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="mailto:someone@yoursite.com?subject=Mail from Our Site">Email Us</a></p>
(adding it to an anchor element <a> won't work unless you also change the display property of the anchor to block or inline-block)
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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