I am not saying you write bad code or anything, but more simply that I too have had several projects that would work perfectly on other servers and such but then not work with GoDaddy because of a combination of their security configurations and/or certain workarounds that have the be implemented to work with their systems.

Is your friend's server on GoDaddy's network, or is it something he runs on his own or with a different host?
 

Different host altogether ...

Greg

Hi Greg,

I was involved with this post a long while ago so I still get the emails.

I have a Windows Hosting Plan with godaddy and it works fine now.

It used to take up to half an hour but these dqays it takes only seconds. Maybe I changed the code along the way.

Anyway, I'll show you what I have and maybe it'll work for you.

It's C#...

 

 

In the following, there will be two email addresses mentioned.

My email address, which I'm sending from, which belongs to the domain that it hosted, which I call myemal@mysite.com and the password for this email, which I call "mypassword".

Also, the email address I'm sending the email to, which I'll call rxemail@clientsite.com.

 

In my web.config file, which is in the root of my application, i.e. same folder as my default.aspx file, I have the following:

 

  <system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp>
        <network
             host="relay-hosting.secureserver.net"
             userName="myemail@mysite.com"
             password="mypassword" />
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
  </system.net>

And the code I use to send the email is as follows:

              MailMessage mailMsg = new MailMessage("myemail@mysite.com", "rxemail@clientsite.com");
              mailMsg.Subject = "hello from my site to yours";
              mailMsg.Body = "bla bla bla" + DateTime.Now.ToString();
              mailMsg.IsBodyHtml = false;
              SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();
              smtp.Host = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net";
              smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("myemail@mysite.com", "mypassword");
              smtp.Send(mailMsg);

Also, if you want to replace the sender's email address with a nice readable name, you can replace the one line:

              MailMessage mailMsg = new MailMessage("myemail@mysite.com", "rxemail@clientsite.com");
 

with these three lines:

MailMessage mailMsg = new MailMessage();

mailMsg.From = new MailAddress("myemail@mysite.com", "Elvis Presley");

mailMsg.To.Add("rxemail@clientsite.com");

 

Best of luck, let me know how you get on.

 

Garrett Brennan

 

Hey Greg,

Not sure if you got my emails yet or not, but I think trying the 'sendmail' class may work considerably better for you than the 'mail' class. Unfortunately I am not much of a PHP guru so I don't have much experience, at least not on GoDaddy servers. Let me know if the 'sendmail' class works out for you as I would like to be able to keep that in mind in case I run into it again.
 

Thanks for your example, I have been working on this all day.  Here is a C# version for anyone who wants it.  I did not need the ( ) around the subject value.

My big problem was that the Relay-host won't work unless you are testing it on Godaddy.  I wasn't for the longest time.  I was unable to get the authenticated sending to work at all through their normal server "smtpout.secureserver.net" due to Mailbox and domain errors.

Also I was unable to edit my Web.config like most people recommend as it kept giving me errors.

I call it from a button click.

protected void Submit1_ServerClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (Page.IsValid)
        {
            Send_Email();
        }
    }

  protected void Send_Email()
    {        
        String mailServerName  = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net";
        MailAddress fromAddress  = new MailAddress("yourEmailAccountwithGoDaddy@yourDomain.com", "your display name like John");
        MailAddress toAddress = new MailAddress("yoursendingemail@sendingdomain.com");
        MailMessage message = new MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress);
        message.Subject = "Your subject";
        //message.Body = "this is the body Text";
        SmtpClient mailClient = new SmtpClient();
        mailClient.Host = mailServerName;
        string myMess = " whatever you want to put here";

        message.Body = myMess;
        try
        {
            mailClient.Send(message);
            Response.Redirect("ShowSuccess.htm");
        }
        catch (SmtpException e)
        {
            Response.Redirect("ShowError.htm");
        }
        message.Dispose();
 
    }

 relay-hosting? relay-hosting?! How was I supposed to know that? They just changed this in January or February of 2008 and it broke (TheKBase Web). Before that you could use smtpout.secureserver.net. I wish there were some way to see the changes that GoDaddy is making on a daily basis.

Dan Rosenstark

Confusionists, Inc. Makers of TheKBase and TheKBaseWeb

I agree, it would be nice if they posted this information somewhere or had a "proposed change schedule" etc... As far as I know they do not have anything in place that would update their users to the various different changes they make. I have seen several people leave their services behind time and time again because of how frustrated they get with the absent minded tech support, and the generic non-specific responses they get to each problem. The best thing to do though is just continually search forums, blogs, and other enthusiast sites and such. I can find answers to my problems online in the same amount of time it takes to get past the hold music with GoDaddy. I have just come to grips with the fact that if I have a problem with their hosting it is up to me to find a way around it.