bsweaney
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GoDaddy employee on a personal account here.
The SMTP port should be 25, and authentication isn’t required.
If you don’t want to use GoDaddy email because of queue time or deliverability, you will have to use a provider that supports port 80, or an API. Something like sendgrid.com or mailgun.com.
GoDaddy won’t change policy about the standard mail ports on shared hosting, they’ve made the decision to be proactive about the types of abuse that can happen if those ports are open.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by bsweaney. Reason: turned on notification
GoDaddy employee posting from a personal account here. There was a typo in haychart’s post. Those settings are for cPanel but he made a mistake on the port. The correct settings are:
For cPanel hosting:
SMTP Host – localhost
Encryption – None
SMTP Port – 25
Authentication – NoneFor every other hosting type:
SMTP Host – relay-hosting.secureserver.net
Encryption – None
SMTP Port – 25
Authentication – NoneConnecting to outside servers on standard mail ports is a security policy GoDaddy won’t change for shared hosting. You’d need to use a provider that supports port 80 or an API, which is usually one of the reputable delivery services like sendgrid.com or mailgun.com
- This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by bsweaney.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Plugins will not install need port 22Sadly this was a wp-config issue, define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); should be in wp-config.php by default on GoDaddy hosting for plugin updates.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: godaddy notice of possible malwareThose deleteme files are somewhat of a false positive probably. cPanel creates those to bypass login when you click to get to your admin from inside the hosting account. They normally go away as soon as the login happens, but if you are blocked by something like ithemes security they just pile up.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Godaddy email issues (Connection Refused)It has to be on port 25, no ssl, no login.
Also it depends on your hosting type. That server is correct for managed wordpress, but it should be localhost for cPanel.
But the real answer is why are you trying to use an SMTP plugin? PHP sendmail() is already configured you shouldn’t need it.
Another thing to look into is something like sendgrid.com, their API connection is allowed from their wordpress plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disk I/O Bottleneck when uploading imagesNo promises that this will actually do anything for you, but I’ve seen tinkering with the php modules in Select PHP Version have an effect. Switching between having imagick and gmagick enabled and increasing the execution time in the switch to php settings area there.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: CACHE-ING wordpress sites w/ godaddy!You’re obviously on Managed WordPress if you’re encountering blacklisted plugins.
The blacklist isn’t part of a CDN upsell. Caching is handled by Varnish servers for web content and Redis servers for object caching. But the blacklist isn’t just because of redundancy, a caching plugin would shift load to the file servers which is a bad thing on this platform.
I’ve successfully used plugins like Autoptimize to minify CSS.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Fatal ErrorI’d look at line 101 of your wp-config.php
Are there a large number of links in your post? This happens on some hosting providers running mod_security that have rules meant to prevent comment spam.
There are lot of things that can cause this though. It could be something on your machine, so scanning for malware was a good idea. It could also be caused by your internet connection, or your hosting plan. I’d see if your hosting has an error log as a next step.