Contact Form on Joomla….ARGHHHH!!!
On one of my sites, I decided to go with Joomla. I liked the idea of Joomla because of the ease of installation, plus it was an overall fit for the site theme.
One of the problems I am encountering is making the contact form functional. It seems as though no matter the functions I choose, nothing will work. I have to suspect that my host, Dreamhost has something to do with it.

I went to their wiki, and found some good examples. However, I set things up as shown in my image and the mail never get to me. I have tried several different email addresses on different servers, and nothing works. This will prove to be an ongoing dilemma and more than likely will be posting again on it!
March 6th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Hi there,
I use joomla on dreamhost too and my e-mail work perfect !
Dreamhost require smtp authentication….
This are the confs….
SMTP Server
a_real_mail@yourdomain.com
The name that u want
/usr/sbin/sendmail
YES
a_real_mail_on_your_domain@yourdomain.com
your_email_password
mail.your_domain.com
if u can get this to work, tell me –> dfamorato (at) douglasmorato.com