I have a Wordpress website I'm going to launch soon and the main thing holding it back is no emails being sent from it. I have WP SMTP installed. When I put the required configuration in (pointing to the zoho SMTP address) and perform a test, it works fine. I receive an email to the account I was sending a test email to.
However, any other email from the website (contact forms, user registration activation emails, etc.) are not being sent out. At first, I thought this might be a Wordpress/Buddypress issue. However, after lots of digging I created a new Gmail account, configured it so I could use it as a relay, and used those settings in the WP SMTP configuration - everything works perfectly. Test emails and activation emails and everything else is sent fine.
So therefore there has to be
something wrong with zoho, but I'm not sure what. Again, test emails go through perfectly, it's only the non-test ones that don't. This is a fairly huge deal for me but I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
Additional notes:
- I have created the SPF record for my domain
- I also created the DomainKey just in case