Email notifications when an order is placed is not working

[AndrewL]

I set my site up and everything was working fine .... a few months ago I changed my email server to Google Apps and since then the email notification hasn't worked.  I've changed my MX records on my hosting package so my email works fine its just these notifications.

 

Under "Preferences" --> "Emails" I send a test email to myself and it works, if I send it to an email address not associated to my site I get an error --- not sure if these are related.

Error-Error: please check your configuration
Sending failed using mail() as PHP's default mail() function returned boolean FALSE.

 

I also noticed on my website that the "Forgot Password" for users is not working either

There is 1 error :

1. Error occurred while sending the e-mail.

 

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

[indus]

Please switch to smtp mail function and try? Iam using google apps too, though it works with both phpmail and smtp, but phpmail function sometimes did not work as expected, so i use smtp mail now.

 

Also, may i know what kind of hosting you are using ?

Edited February 7, 2014 by indus (see edit history)