BT email address and Joomla! settings

Question

Hi all,
please help as nothing I've tried seems to work. I've built a site in Joomla! and have now created a form. I should be receiving emails from anyone filling out the form but am not and despite filling in all permutations I can think of I can't seem to get this to work. The form itself is completing as I can go to the admin end of the site and manually check, but it really should be sending the emails too!
Has anyone used Joomla with Bt's settings and if so what have you put in the following fields: (PS this is in the global config section - server - Mail Settings...
Mail Tab:
Mailer: Select the method that is to be used to send e-mails from the web site. Select from the choices in the drop down list:
PHP mail function
Sendmail
SMTP Server
Mail From: Enter the e-mail address that will appear on all e-mails sent out by the web site. For example [email protected]
From Name: Enter the name that will appear in the From field on all e-mails sent out by the web site. For example: The Admin Team; The Web Master;
Sendmail Path: This field displays the path to the Sendmail program on the host. This field is only used if the Mailer field is set to Sendmail and the mail server is running the Sendmail program.
SMTP Auth: Select Yes if SMTP Authentication is required by the host mail server. This field is only used if the Mailer field is set to SMTP Server.
SMTP User: If SMTP Authentication is required by the host mail server, enter the Username for the account. This field is only used if the Mailer field is set to SMTP Server and the SMTP Auth field is set to Yes.
SMTP Pass: If SMTP Authentication is required by the host mail server, enter the Password for the account. This field is only used if the Mailer field is set to SMTP Server and the SMTP Auth field is set to Yes.
any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

fungalpis wrote:
Is it possible to do this with the new BT email service?
Someone on the BT Residential Customer Support Community Forum managed to subscribe to a premium BT email service, keep their existing btinternet.com address for a small fee, and then migrate to a different ISP.
Clearly, ISPs will discourage a lot their customers from migrating if they cannot keep their existing email addresses.
Might that also be seen as some form of unfair practice, in terms of restricting competition?
Hi.
The Premium email service is not ceasing, otherwise "they" wouldn't be informing those on old legacy payg or basic email to either move the address to their BT broadband account (if relevant) or pay 1.60 to keep the address.
This service has been around for years.
Not sure your last comments are relevant - since it's up to the user to move as they wish. Obviously an ISP email tie-in is, however, relevant - but this doesn't stop BTinternet users from keeping their address if they move elsewhere (for that fee). I don't know if other ISPs have this sort of facility.
If people chop & change frequently, then it would make sense to only use a non ISP email address, e.g. their own domain, gmail, hotmail, (even Yahoo) if they so wish.
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