Email not working

[Big Kahuna]

Must be something wrong with the SMTP portion of the program as Mail Gun didn't work either

SMTP: tls://smtp.mailgun.org:465
SMTP Username: postmaster@mg.moparstyle.com
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The mailing function returned an error while trying to send the mail.
The following errors were outputted by PHP when attempting to send mail:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to tcp://smtp.mailgun.org:465 (Connection refused) in .../vb/mail/smtp.php on line 181 Warning: Unable to connect to SMTP server in .../vb/mail/smtp.php on line 147
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[Dave]

Then I'm pretty sure it's caused by:

Originally Posted by Dave

It's also possible that your server host blocks incoming/outgoing SMTP traffic in order to avoid spam, might have to reach out to them if that's the case.

[Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by Dave

Then I'm pretty sure it's caused by:

but by using Mail Gun's SMTP, aren't I completely bypassing my host's SMTP's server?

[Dave]

No, your host can block outgoing traffic that is sent to specific ports.
I've been in this situation before at a host, they had SMTP traffic completely disabled on new servers and only removed the port limitation upon request.

[Big Kahuna]

ah man I've got Go Daddy Shared hosting, the first layer of support is strictly denial - but I'll give it a shot.

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Ok didn't get any help on the SMTP part. They said they ain't blocking anything, but I did find in the MX settings on cPanel that outgoing mail was set to localhost. I change it first to Remote Exchange and while I couldn't send via SMTP, mail did go out when I turned SMTP off. I then set to auto detect, and got same results.

While it would be nice to send via SMTP, at least confirmation mails are now going out.

Thanks for the help