Sent mails from App doesn't reach the destination

[stphn]

Hi,

yes, this is a know issue with K9 and Hostgator. Your email provider does accept the mail but for some reason does not send it further. This is an issue from Hostgator’s side as it should reject the mail instead of accepting and silently do not deliver it.

If you search the forum for “hostgator” you will find some threads on the same issue, and you will learn the reason for this missbehavior from Hostgator, eg.

5.8 showing as sent, but not always arriving at destination

Hi, This is a fresh thread, originally started on another, it was suggested there to make a fresh one. First in all my years of using K9, I am not aware of this ever happening to me before. People on K9 5.8 might need to check all their email is actually, not only sending properly, but actually getting to destination. Since the very day of putting the new K9 5.8 version on, it turns out now that some emails, even though they show as having been sent, and are in the sent folder, have not arri…

At the moment K9 developer does not seem to want to implement a workaround for mail service providers like hostgator.