David Burton

Neil,

Thank you for your response and my apologies for getting back to so late.

So, this is what I have done… I decided that since I have spent so much time setting up my own VM to host my website that I would figure out this email issue as well. I will say, however, that it would be much easier to simply pay for a hosting plan and setup a WP site their. I may transfer my WP site to a shared host in the future but not right now.

Ok, so I setup WP Mail SMTP for my WP site (which was a MAJOR headache) but I finally got it. Then I made some changes to Contact Forms and to my surprise it worked! Then, it didn’t work, then it worked again, then it didn’t work, then…well, you get the point.

As of this very second WP Mail SMTP is fine and sends the test email with no issues. A customer sent me a request via the web form and I received an email from Google stating that it was not delivered (which I thought was odd). I checked my settings and tried it myself and it worked!!

But again, as of now, it is not working again for whatever reason. This on/off, on/off, yes/no, yes/no, 0/1, 0/1 is killing me here. If it is working fine the only reason it would cease to do so, IMHO, would be if my server’s IP changed (which it has not) or if the VM container crashed (which it has never done so).

So I am still working out the bugs regarding the contact form. It works and then it doesn’t… If you like feel free to go to my site’s Contact page and send me a test message via the form. It may succeed and it may fail. Point is, I have to figure this out otherwise I may have to migrate to shared hosting just so these things will work properly.

But I wanted to thank you for your advice and your suggestion(s). I am going to continue to work the issue and I will post any changes I make that result in a favorable outcome.

Regards,

David