How manage email from self-hosted Wordpress website

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Bhankas

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• Mar 4, 2024

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Hi all
Some services need email from website e.g. [email protected], and I am having trouble searching.
I tried thunderbird, gmail and many others but they say connection refused by website.
Earlier many online webmail options existed, seems they have gone.
Low cost hosts do not offer many resources for plugins.
Any idea what to do?
Thanks

 

xcodes

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simply goto any domain registrar and ask them for email hosting package if you need hosting then you can setup email within hosting easily. Just check the option called email delivery and set the DNS which is suggested to you.

Good luck

 

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zakservers

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• Mar 4, 2024

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Actually I would recommend you to host your mail server on the same web server, where you are hosting your wordpress installation, as with cPanel they would automatically install the mail server and give you interface like roundcube, it will be easy for you to manage your admin@website email address this way.

 

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Bhankas

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• Mar 5, 2024
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A simple website mail2web-dot-com did the trick and I got my emails in minutes. I wonder why Gmail or Mailbird or Thunderbird have difficulty connecting with website mail server?

 

Teachie

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• Mar 17, 2024

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These days most of hostings close port 25 and sell the E-mail ( smtp ) package instead.
Just buy a smtp account and that's it and then use SMTP plugin to enter details and the emails just start to working

 

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Bhankas

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• Mar 19, 2024
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Teachie said:

These days most of hostings close port 25 and sell the E-mail ( smtp ) package instead.
Just buy a smtp account and that's it and then use SMTP plugin to enter details and the emails just start to working

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Thanks
I noticed a peculiar behavior. Any visitor that used the Contact Us page, the mail arrives at my gmail-id. However, when I try myself, I see it arriving at the backend, but not to me.