Posted on August 2, 2008 - by Nate

SMTP, Sendmail, PHP Tutorial For Joomla 1.5 and Gmail Integration.

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably got the same problem I had: you get some sort of error when you use the Joomla Contact form. You’ve read through all the online tutorials and you’ve probably tried all the suggestions and manipulated the contacts, the server under “global config” etc., but to no avail. Am I right.

For some reason I could not get the PHP or SMTP function to work on my digital signage site. I already have Gmail set up as my email client in Hostmonster and it works fine. I also had all my contact information setup with the client email as my email of use. The problem I was getting was that the sendmail was working for the “copy” email, but it was not sending me the email–which was the most important part of the process.

Here was the problem and here was how I fixed it.

Under my MX mail settings in Hostmonster Cpanel, I changed one thing. Where it says, “Always accept mail locally even if the primary mx does not point to this server” my settings were set to “yes.” I merely changed them back to “no” and now it all works swimmingly. I hope this helps. The reason I’m posting it is because I spent WAY too long trying to figure this out–for just a simple fix.