Note I cannot endorse the SocketLabs service anymore. Everything below works with any SMTP service. If you would like great alternatives please give the people at: Postmark a try for transaction email or if you need to send bulk email please try out SendGrid So you have a GoDaddy server and you want to send email through your newly acquired SMTP Relay. Well “you can’t” is probably what you are going to find if you do some poking around Google. ...
Note I cannot endorse the SocketLabs service anymore. Everything below works with any SMTP service. If you would like great alternatives please give the people at: Postmark a try for transaction email or if you need to send bulk email please try out SendGrid On my server I run the typical assortment of applications that is on any true developers servers. I have PHP for my blog, ASP.NET MVC for my side projects, and a couple scheduled tasks that include backups and other things. All of these applications and tasks have different places to configure their default SMTP relay, and it was really getting out of hand, but I had gotten use to changing them all when the need arose, and usually I just defaulted them to the IIS localhost, because it was easy. ...