I was wondering why there wasn’t the steady stream of spam or occasional inquiries coming from my new blog… it wasn’t set up right! So I apologize to anyone who has tried to contact me and thought I was blowing you off.
The issue is an odd setting. When I filled out the E-Mail section of the settings screen, I filled in what I expected:
The error message is wonderfully cryptic:
Could not connect - Mailbox name not allowed. The server response was: sorry, your mail was administratively denied. (#5.7.1)
Inquiries from GoDaddy support was less than inspiring, basically saying there was a problem in my code. Great.
So I tried every single e-mail account and password I have with GoDaddy and continued to receive the same error message.
On a whim, I changed the first e-mail address, where the messages should be going. I changed it to one of my GoDaddy accounts. Bazinga!
The issue is GoDaddy doesn’t allow relays to “free” e-mail providers like GMail, Live, AOL, etc. So by keeping that e-mail address, using SMTP server relay-hosting.secureserver.net on port 25 with no other settings, it works fine.
