Personal Site Starter Kit

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

Sadie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:12:17 GMT

Here is a page on GoDaddy's website that will help anyone, who has migrated to IIS7 Hosting Service, send Email from your web applications. Hope it helps, for the year 2009 anyway.

http://help.godaddy.com/article/4220

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

KevInKauai — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:52:18 GMT

Aloha, shadman.

I sorry to say that I have no experience with CDONTS for email with GoDaddy. However, I don't think that adding ".txt" to you web.config file will work at all.

Have you looked around the GoDaddy HELP center? I just did with the search phrase "CDONTS" and there were 19 entries, including one promisingly titles "Cdonts Example for ASP Hosting". Perhaps this is a silly question, but why are you determined to use CDONTS when SendMail works just fine?

There seems to be another thread on CDONTS here: http://forums.asp.net/p/1356318/2783429.aspx#2783429 Good luck with that.

:) KevInKauai

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

shadman — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:42:50 GMT

I'm trying to get cdonts working on Godaddy and have duplicated the above and I still do not receive my emails. I setup an email account for the from file, is there anything else I can do to get it working. GoDaddy support will not help. Should the web.config have a suffix of .txt?

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

KevInKauai — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:22:43 GMT

Aloha, vaevictus - -

This is an extreme OLD thread, but apparently confusion about sending email abounds. I know that once I got it properly working, I tend to "clone" all the new ones from the working model.

Here is a general framework that I know works:

1            Dim objMail As New MailMessage
2            objMail.IsBodyHtml = True
3    
4            With objMail
5                .From = New MailAddress("from_where@your_domain.com")
6                .To.Add(pEmail)
7                .Subject = "Your SUBJECT
8                .Bcc.Add("mybcc@your_domain.com")
9    
10               .Body = “body of email message”
11   
12           End With
13   
14           Dim client As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient("relay-hosting.secureserver.net")
15           client.UseDefaultCredentials = True
16   
17           Try
18                   client.Send(objMail)
19           Catch Ex As Exception
20               ‘ handle your error HERE
21           End Try
22

Of course, the success of the Send is going to count on the way that your local hosting service is set up. The "relay-hosting.secureserver.net" is specific to GoDaddy.

I hope this helps! :) KevInKauai

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

vaevictis1986 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:42:08 GMT

I am having the same problem listed above. My web.config is set like the post above. The problem that I am having is that the smtp form speraticly works. It works for me all the time but i have client call me eveyday telling me that my form is not working. I have read over a hundred blogs trying to figure out why my form is not working. I am starting to think it has somthing to do with Godaddy but im not all that sure. Any Ideas?

web.config

<system.net>

</smtp>

</mailSettings>

</system.net>

C# page

System.Web.Mail.MailMessage mailMessage = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();

mailMessage.From = "name@domain.com ";

mailMessage.To = "name@domain.com";

mailMessage.Bcc = "name@domain.com";

mailMessage.Subject = "Subject";

mailMessage.BodyFormat = System.Web.Mail.MailFormat.Html;

mailMessage.Body = "First Name: " + tbFirstName.Text +

" Last Name: " + tbLastName.Text +

" Suffix: " + ddSuffix.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" Marital status: " + ddMaritalstatus.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" Name of spouse: " + tbNameofspouse.Text +

" Street Address: " + tbStreetAddress.Text +

" City: " + tbCity.Text +

" Country: " + ddCountry.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" State: " + ddState.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" Zip Code: " + tbZipcode.Text +

" Phone: " + tbPhone.Text +

" Email: " + tbEmail.Text +

" How many children do you have at home? " + ddChildrenHome.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" Age of Children Interested In? " + ddAgeChildren.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" Sex of Children Interested In? " + ddSex.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" How many children are you interested in? " + ddChildrenHome.SelectedValue.ToString() +

" Country interested in? " + ddCountryInterested.SelectedValue.ToString() +" Comment: " + tbComment.Text;

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "Relay-Hosting.secureserver.net";

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(mailMessage);

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

NewMediaFl — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:11:40 GMT

Sure am glad I ran across this thread! Thanks KevInKauai - your relay-hosting.secureserver.net FINALLY solved my Godaddy form email issue!

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

KevInKauai — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:12:20 GMT

I believe there is a way around the 250 limitation. I recall seeing a Help file on GoDaddy that addressed that. If all else fails, call their Technical Support line (I use Skype since it's not a toll-free number). I've found them to be very helpful on practically everything.

I hope this helps ... :) KevInKauai

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

invent — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:59:47 GMT

hi its nice to see this reply, but the problem with this relay server is,it will send only 250 emails per day,what should I do if I wantto send more than that,I thought to use gmail smtp server,and it was working very well on my pc but its not working on the godaddy server.Any help is appreciated a lot.

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

mddubs — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:38:23 GMT

I believe the difference between the above two posts is:

Settings When Hosted On GoDaddy

<system.net>
 <mailSettings>
 <smtp from="xxxx@yyyy.org">
 <network host="relay-hosting.secureserver.net"/>
 </smtp>
 </mailSettings>
 </system.net>

Settings When Hosted Externally

<system.net>
 <mailSettings>
 <smtp from="noreply@domain.net">
 <network host="smtpout.secureserver.net" password="<password>" port="25" userName="noreply@domain.net"/>
 </smtp>
 </mailSettings>
</system.net>

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

KevInKauai — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:17:27 GMT

I just struggled through the various permutations found here and there for this to work on GoDaddy and found this to work:

1     <system.net>
2      <mailSettings>
3       <smtp from="xxxx@yyyy.org">
4        <network host="relay-hosting.secureserver.net"/>
5       </smtp>
6      </mailSettings>
7     </system.net>

(I have changed the email to protect the account, but it *IS* an established Forwarding email account on the hosting service, although I'm not sure that matters.)

:) KevInKauai

Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

Sitesbuilders — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:15:56 GMT

You can find the solution for your problem at:

http://www.sitesbuilders.com/Articles/Godaddy-Smtp.aspx

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

Drydocked — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:46:12 GMT

epasalakis:

I am on godaddy and this works for me.

<system.net>
 <mailSettings>
 <smtp from="noreply@noreply.net">
 <network host="smtpout.secureserver.net" password="<password>" port="25" userName="noreply@domain.net"/>
 </smtp>
 </mailSettings>
</system.net>

Remember you have to go into the control panel and create an email user or it will not work.

I just wanted to let you guys know that this was a big help...I just moved my sites over to GoDaddy, and I've been struggling today trying to use network credentials, etc. with the SMTP client and kept getting the invalid domain msesage. So I came here and voila! Problem solved. You know, you tend to think you're the only one who's ever seen the problem, then a 2-minute search on a forum like this reveals that someone's already solved the issue months ago.

THANKS!

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

epasalakis — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:20:01 GMT

I am on godaddy and this works for me.

<system.net>
 <mailSettings>
 <smtp from="noreply@noreply.net">
 <network host="smtpout.secureserver.net" password="<password>" port="25" userName="noreply@domain.net"/>
 </smtp>
 </mailSettings>
</system.net>

Remember you have to go into the control panel and create an email user or it will not work.

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

krisfr — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:50:26 GMT

Hey Chris

I am trying to get my personal web page starter kit working with GoDaddy and I am having the dickins of a time to set up the the web.config page BOTH on server at godaddy and my development server. Would you take sometime to share what you did to get it to work, I am stuck in a ditch.

Thanks for your help

Re: Getting SMTP to Work with GoDaddy

snowboarder888 — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:53:08 GMT

Yes - to no avail.

Thanks for tips!

~ Chris