I am running Joomla 1.5.15. After working on my site, I decided to test it with different email addresses to make sure that everyone would be able to register. There was no problem with hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc but I noticed that when I registered with my company email address, I did not receive any mail asking me to activate my account. The message on Joomla said that my account has been created and the activation has been sent but when I check my mail, I don’t see anything. I then decided to test with some other customized emails and I noticed that Joomla could not send mails to most of them.
I was just wondering whether it is a problem of Joomla’s mailing system or whether it is the server settings on the place where the email addresses are that is causing the problem. I spoke with the live support of my company’s website host and they told me I have to change certain things on my server before the mails could be delivered. I then went ahead and made those changes and the mails were delivered.
My problem was solved but then what of the other people (with customized emails) that would want to register on the site and do not know all these, does it mean that Joomla is not a good option for them or is there anything I could do to make Joomla send mails to everybody just like any of these mailing systems would.
