Sending email from webapp, with GoDaddy as our domain registrar

Hello,

I am considering signing up for hosting here. We need to send out emails from our Silverlight 4 based webapp. Our domain name was registered through GoDaddy and so far we have been using their email services (their smtp server and all that). This has proven to be a problematic part of our app as far as hosting is concerned.

How easy is it to send email from a discountasp.net hosted site? Can we use our domain name via GoDaddy, but use a discountasp based email account? Can the account use our domain name, as in [email protected]?

Is it simple to keep using GoDaddy's smtp server and email services from discountasp.net if we decide to go that route?

Thanks!

 

If you point the MX records to us (which you would have to do in order to set up mailboxes here), I don't know if GoDaddy will still let you relay through their SMTP servers. Depends on how tight their security is. You should ask them.

But once the email is set up here you could send through our servers. Assuming you aren't doing any bulk mailing or spamming. Not saying you are, I just have to mention that.

 

SMTP is not my forte at all, so hopefully you don't mind if I dumb it down

Would it be possible to host our app here at discountasp.net, with the domain name registered through GoDaddy, and send email using discoutasp.net's mail server? If so, is it possible to send the email as if it came from emailaccount@<our domain>.com, instead of emailaccount@<a discountasp.net domain>.com?

We are not sending high volume email at all, just a confirmation email when a user signs up with our app.

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

(the above was me, forgot to log in)

 

can I use my own smtp server?

I am currently hosting with GoDaddy.com and have forms on my website that send email. I am forced to use the Godaddy.com smtp servers, but I find that their servers can sometimes be blacklisted, or there is a considerable amount of time between form submission and the email being processed. This delay is an issue because some of my services have tight time based SLA's that I have to meet, and the delay in receiving an email from my website causes me to miss the SLA at times. I have an account with smtp.com, can I use those servers to send my web site emails or am I required to use the discountasp.net smtp relay's?