Kunena Developer - I am running this on a GoDaddy shared server with SMTP settings per their instructions.
Joomla! SMTP email settings
Because it is a relay-hosting server used exclusively for their shared hosting accounts, it does not require a username or password. I don't like using the relay-hosting.secureserver.net server that they provide because email is not sent immediately. The "shared" emails are sent out as a batch every xx minutes.
Back in August when I first transfered to GoDaddy, and realized this "problem" - after a long hard search online I came across a forum thread discussing GoDaddy and Joomla and someone said they were able to use an SMTP server used by GoDaddy accounts being run on a dedicated server - and that address worked until a few days ago. (They found me out?)
So I first went back to the relay-hosting server (which is frustrating for new users waiting for a confirmation email) - so today went back to "PHP Mail" - which is what shows in the Joomla "Mailer" selection and is now sending instantaneous emails. The fields are shown in th ereport beacus ethey asre remaining from when I had the setting set to SMTP. If I switch the "Mailer" selection from "PHP Mail" back to SMTP it will also work just fine (yes without a username or password) for sending mass emails via Joomla.
Believe me I was confused about the blank username and password too. If you put your master GoDaddy email username and password in there (and don't leave it blank) - it won't work. But yet, that is what I had to use to connect to the old (non-supported) SMTP server for dedicated server accounts that stopped working on me.
I'll try a few things like emptying those fields - and let you know if I have any luck getting mail to be sent via Kunena. But it shouldn't matter - just like it doesn't matter that I have an ftp server and login info in the Joomla FTP option while it is disabled.(That won't work under a GoDaddy shared hosting account either). Like I say - it's just strange that it works in Joomla and not from Kunena - I thought you guys might shed some light on why. I can't be the only Kunena user out there running this configuration on a Godaddy shared server account.
