I should note that you can usually use your ISP as a smarthost too but there's usually a limit to the number of messages you can send out per day.
Another option if you have a real mail server somewhere is to get a Postini account. It's $12/year per user. With each user, however, you can setup unlimited aliases (and no, it doesn't affect where the mail actually gets routed) so if you need sales@, info@, support@, etc. those could all be aliases under the same account. You get gmail quality spam filtering (it's what gmail uses) plus, you can use them as a smarthost -- I've NEVER had any mail fail to get delivered (I've setup Postini for dozens of Exchange clients of mine) with proper SPF records and Postini as the smarthost. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:14 PM, GravyFace<[email protected]> wrote: > Try using the SwiftMailer component; you can use your gmail account as > a smarthost for sending out mail. Only downside is that it rewrites > the from/reply-to addresses to [email protected]. > > If that's an issue, you can always get a Google Apps for my Domain > account with the domain you plan on using and setup your MX records > for Google Apps, but your A records (www, @) to your CakePHP site at > your hosting provider. > > If you don't want to use Google Apps for your mail (its pretty wicked; > I'd venture to say that it's better than any crappy Horde or Squirrel > Mail interface you typically get from the commodity hosting packages), > you can also just register and use a sub-domain with them i.e. > mail.whatever.com and create MX records, etc. > This way, when you send out mail, it'll go out as > [email protected] -- your existing mail is intact, but > you now have Google sending out your mail (they have proper PTR > records too). > > I use them for a few apps and haven't had any issues with hotmail.com, > yahoo.com etc. > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, number9<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am in the process of deploying an application in cakephp and I have >> made use of the E-mail component. >> >> It works great if I am sending E-mail to gmail addresses, but hotmail >> addresses do not receive anything at all. With debug set to 2 I am >> seeing no error messages, so I'm assuming the problem is receiving. >> >> I have tried smtp and the "non smtp" way with the same results. >> >> I understand that they may be getting blocked as spam E-mails and it >> can take a while to become trusted (even G-mail has put the E-mails in >> spam), but nevertheless it is important that users receive E-mails to >> register. >> >> I am currently testing the site on shared hosting (which probably >> doesn't help matters), but is there anything I can do to ensure E- >> mails are received by any E-mail address? >> >> Would I better just using php mail function? I have never had problems >> with E-mails not being sent/received when using 3rd party scripts >> (e.g. wordpress). I would rather use the cake component if at all >> possible as I have it working now. >> >> Would appreciate any suggestions as I am sure I'm not the only person >> this has happened too! >> >> Thanks >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
