Forgive me please, I know there are tons of topics about email but I can't get it to work and I have been at it for about a year (seriously) I have read and read and I must just be thick when it comes to setting this up.
Please is there anyone here who has managed to get mercury email server (with relay for non local emails) or any other email server (again with relay support) to work 100% with their ISP being AOL which is of the Dynamic kind ? (or working with any other dynamic ISP but I am with AOL so AOL is the key)
I really need to be able to send out emails from my forum (and to receive them when someone registers would be great too) I'm at my wits end with this.
Please if someone can maybe MSN with me and go through the mercury set-up with me part by part I will happily pay you to help me have email working on my server.
I have been messing about with the different modules in mercury and I think I have put them all back to default but I'm not 100% sure of it.
This is what I can tell you so far :-
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack One. Xampp 1.7.0 fully patched with both patches. Everything is working apart from Mercury. My ISP is AOL and is Dynamic so I use dnsexit.com with their updater to inform them when my IP changes. There is also a setting for MX records that can be set-up there which I have had a go with but still can't send or receive emails.
What I would like is to have the Email address admin@mail.w4vy.co.uk or if it will make things easier admin@w4vy.co.uk and then to be able to send out Emails from my forum to my forum members and for when someone registers to my forum to receive an Email telling me of the fact all via the Email client that I use (windows live mail) but to have Emails I would truthfully use anything/any client that whoever helps me tells me to use, if it works then it works and you have no idea how happy that would make me.
Ok so that's it I guess so please don't troll me for asking the same questions as others because like I said at the start of my post "Forgive me please, I know there are tons of topics about email but I can't get it to work and I have been at it for about a year" truth be told I first started all this when Xampp was the version 1.6.6 so how longs that ?
Thank you for reading and Thank you in advance for any help you might offer.
Yours Thankfully
w4vy