Im using host gator and this is the replies i got:
Thank you for contacting Hostgator. It appears you have configured your WordPress contact form to use an SMTP connection to send mail. I have opened the outbound SMTP port for your account. However it appears you have not yet configured your plugin “WP-Mail-SMTP.” Once you have properly configured the plugin to connect to an existing email account you should be able to use your contact form with no problems.
this still didnt wok so i let them know and this was their last reply:
I checked the contact form and it is sending out from the cPanel user name. If you are using PHPmail (this is the default for most contact forms) that is deprecated and the forms need to be updated to use SMTP authentication. While we are not web developers and cannot recode the form for you, we can provide the information you need to authenticate.
server name: localhost
port: 25
username: full email address
password: the email address’ password
If this does not work, please let us know which email address you set the form to authenticate as, and how we can replicate a send attempt on our end. This will allow us to check the logs on our server to see why that is failing.
For more information on sending email with PHP and SMTP authentication, please take a look at these pages:
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14456673/sending-email-with-php-from-an-smtp-server
2016-01-26 14:46:31 1aOAVT-00072v-Au <= [email protected] U=relm615 P=local S=825 [email protected] T=”Email from contact form” from <[email protected]> for [email protected]
2016-01-26 14:46:31 cwd=/var/spool/exim 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim -Mc 1aOAVT-00072v-Au
2016-01-26 14:46:31 1aOAVT-00072v-Au SMTP connection outbound 1453841191 1aOAVT-00072v-Au on3online.com [email protected] I=173.227.74.5 S=on3online.com/index.php F=/home1/relm615/public_html/index.php
2016-01-26 14:46:32 1aOAVT-00072v-Au => [email protected] F=<[email protected]> R=send_to_gateway T=remote_smtp S=1518 H=cm.websitewelcome.com [192.185.178.233] X=TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256 DN=”/C=US/O=Sample, Inc./OU=IT Team/CN=Server” C=”250 2.0.0 AkmX1s0161BDQcG01kmYpK mail accepted for delivery”
2016-01-26 14:46:32 1aOAVT-00072v-Au Completed
used WP Mail SMTP to set up Smtp like the reply said but still no luck