Greetings. I've been reading every forum post and every tutorial out there on using WP-Mail-SMTP and Contact Form 7 on Wordpress running on a Bluehost server and I absolutely can't get it to work. With Bluehost, from what I've seen so far (although I'm not completely certain on any part of this anymore), if I have a contact form sending an email from my Wordpress site, I MUST send it to the email address created through cpanel that is directly associated with the Bluehost domain. Right?
At this point, I can successfully send test emails from within the WP-Mail-SMTP plugin BUT only to any email address other than the actual admin@thedomain.com. I can send it to my personal fine but not to the ones on the Bluehost email sections of cpanel. And the contact form doesn't send ANY emails. It fails every time. When WP_DEBUG is turned on, the form hangs indefinitely.
I've got WP-Mail-SMTP set up with:
From Email: admin@tehdomain.com
From Name: The Domain
Mailer: Send all Wordpress emails via SMTP
SMTP Host: box###.bluehost.com
SMTP Port: 465
SSL selected
SMTP Authentication selected
Username: admin@thedomain.com
Password: ******
And Contact Form 7 is set up thus:
TO: actualemailaddress@mail.com (I've tried this with admin@thedomain.com and it doesn't work either)
From: [The Domain] [admin@thedomain.com]
Additional Headers: "Reply-To: [name][email]"
And the Wordpress admin email is set to admin@thedomain.com.
Can any body point me in the right direction? Is it a Bluehost thing? Is it a Wordpress thing? WP-Mail-SMTP? CF7?
From all of the forum posts I've been reading, Bluehost servers won't send emails to non-local email addresses without them having SPF whatevers and that is way over my head. PHP mail function won't work at all with Bluehost so I have to use SMTP. At leas that's what I'm under the impression of. I certainly haven't been able to get it to work with anything.