Email problems need help ASAP please

[tony_sar]

im talking about setting in admin > configuration > email option .

where you have smtp setting . such as account , port , host . etc.

smtp's job is to relay emails .. logically , i guess , php mail function needs that to send email , otherwise , how would email will be send from your shop ? not through your email client on your computer but through server. ..

once that is been set . you can setup both pop3, and smtp on email client program to send and receive emails

[doll5272]

Ok I have done two zencart installs on TWO sites never had problems in the past now everything is going wrong! Both have the email settings shown above and both are using an AOL email address! Neither can get any mail except from Paypal when and order is made they are not getting contact us emails either! Now I went in after I placed an order on one site and NO Orders are showing up can someone pretty please help me never ever had this problem before
Angie

[stevesh]

Anytime I have a working site suddenly stop working, the first thing I do is contact my host to see if they changed anything on the server. Second thing would be to see if I had been hacked.

If these are Paypal-only sites, try temporarily activating the COD module and run a test order to see if everything works with that.