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That is not an answer,
>
>I have no need to install using your valued applications for a number of
>reasons mainly control, however that said the installation I have on the
>server IS functioning correctly with this exception.
>My question was,
>
>How do I read/send email from my SMTP email account remotely as it is
>supposed to do,
>
>I also pointed out that I have used TWO completely different methods of
>server side apps for this and Mozilla's Thunderbird email client and
>still
>not managed to read or send mail on my SMTP email account.
>
>Please answer what I asked
>
>Phil
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>Discussion Notes
>Support Staff Response
>Dear Phil,
>
>Thank you for contacting Online Support.
>
>If you need to send mail from your hosting account, you will need to use
>relay-hosting.secureserver.net. There is no username or password for
>this server. We apologize for any miscommunication.
>
>Please let us know if we may be of further assistance.
>
>Regards,
>Josh P.
>Online Support Technician
>Customer Inquiry
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>If no username and password Then how do I use it to retrieve email?
>
>perhaps I'm getting mixed up here, I dont mean to sound curt but I want
>to
>understand this. I have not used SMTP before for this purpose as I have
>never really had the need to so please explain it in terms a newby would
>understand.
>
>Im trying to perform juggling acts with email to enable me to display it
>on
>my site. I do not need help with that I just need the ability for a php
>script to retrieve an email from one of my 'free email accounts' on a
>daily
>basis and then the script will do the rest. (THIS IS NOT A SCRIPT HELP
>REQUEST)
>
>The information I need is
>
>"hostname of mailserver",
>"your username",
>"your password"
>
>I presume by "hostname of mailserver" they mean
>hostname_of_mailserver@whatever.com ie the first part.
>also am I getting the above mixed up with pop mail?
>
>I appreciate your efforts and I can understand that getting asked stupid
>questions all day long must "do yer friggin head in!"
>
>Phil
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>Discussion Notes
>Support Staff Response
>Dear Sir/Madam;
>
>Thank you for contacting Online Support. To set up an email client to
>check your email account, please make sure that you are using the
>following settings:
>
>Username: Your full email address (i.e. person@domain.com)
>Password: (This is CASE SENSITIVE)
>Incoming Mail Server Type: POP3
>Incoming Mail Server: mail.yourdomain.com (Replace "yourdomain.com" with
>your actual domain name.)
>Outgoing Mail Server: smtpout.secureserver.net
>-Outgoing Mail Server requires authentication-
>Outgoing Mail Server Username: Your SMTP Relay Username
>Outgoing Mail Server Password: Your SMTP Relay Password (case sensitive)
>
>Please note that the use of our outgoing mail server (SMTP) requires
>that you 'Activate' the 'SMTP Relay' option of the email account. Here
>are the directions to do this:
>
>1. Login to your customer account.
>2. Select 'Email Accounts' from the 'Hosting & Email' menu.
>3. Select either 'Manage Free Accounts' or 'Manage Email Accounts'
>depending on where the email account that you are working with is
>listed.
>4. Click the 'Activate' link to the right of the email address.
>5. In the section outlined in red, set Relays per day to 250.
>6. Enter a username. (This username is separate from all other services)
>7. Enter a password. (Between 5 and 8 characters starting with a letter)
>8. Enter password again for confirmation.
>9. Click the 'Save Settings' button at the bottom of the page.
>
>We have a tutorial section on our website with walkthroughs for setting
>up different email clients. You can view this here:
>
>Email Client Tutorial
>
>
>Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Eric B.
>Online Support Technician
>Customer Inquiry
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>I got a nasty feeling in my water :(
>
>PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE switch it on for me?

>Missing IMAP extension
>
>MMS blog depends on the imap extension, and will not work without it
>
>If you are running this on your own computer, enable the php imap
>extension
>in your installation of php
>
>If you are running this on a shared host, please send a friendly mail to
>your provider explaining your need for the php imap extension
>
>Pretty please
>
>Phil>
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>Discussion Notes
>Support Staff Response
>Dear Phil,
>
>Thank you for contacting Online Support. Unfortunately, our email
>accounts do not currently support IMAP. We apologize for any
>inconvenience.
>
>Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Nathan P.
>Online Support Technician
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>Could you tell me why not and when will this be implimented,
>
>I have three different modules here for use on my site ALL of which need
>Imap support????
>Joomla v1.0.11 (which you offer!!) as part of your VALUE APPLICATIONS
>use
>this function and you do not support it!??? which beggs the question
>"why
>are you offering applications that are not working correctly"
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Discussion Notes
>Support Staff Response
>Dear Phil,
>
>Thank you for contacting Online Support. We do not currently have any
>estimated time frame for IMAP support with our email accounts.
>
>Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.
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