Hi,
I just recently signed up for free hosting, and while I was at it, I decided to finally buy a domain for my website. My question is about email addresses... my domain is www.projectvb.com , and I set up a few email addresses (dogp @ and virtual.boy @). I'm sure I'm doing something stupid or not understanding something, but I can't get the email working. I've sent a few emails to those addresses (from my verizon account) and I get unable to deliver error messages, and while I can log into the webmail (Horde), I never see any emails come in, and if I try to send any, I get this error:
There was an error sending your message: Failed to connect to localhost:25 [sMTP: Failed to connect socket: Connection refused (code: -1, response: )] .
I guess I wouldn't mind just having it forward those emails to my verizon account, but from reading the forwarding info, it sounds like it goes to both... will that cause emails to bounce if I don't periodically log in and delete messages? I did try setting it anyway just to test, and either it's really slow, or it's not forwarding. I assume if I get the emails coming into my account here, the best way would be to set my verizon account to pull the email from this server (external POP)?
So, could you explain what options I have for email, or what I'm doing wrong?
BTW, have there been some unusual problems with the webhost lately? I've noticed quite a few times in the last few days both this site and my hosted site have been down.
Thanks,
Pat