***UPDATE***

After a few emails back and forth to IX, I have figured out what went wrong.  Because IX is using “POP before SMTP” for their mail servers, I had to adapt my code. I am not entirely happy with the result, as I would prefer to send secure email, rather than using POP before SMTP, but it does the job, and that is really all that matters.

Thanks go to Sergey at IX for all his help!  It was much appreciated!

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Although I have had nothing but great experiences with my host, IXWebHosting, I have found a few limitations to my service which are frustrating me to no end.  I am writing a contact form right now which will send me an email, with the information collected on the form.  The issue is that I am not able send this email using my own mail server, provided by IX. It would seem that they have some kind of block on doing this, and therefore, I am running into some serious problems.

I have contacted them to see what I am doing wrong, and hope to have this resolved very soon.  I am looking forward to finishing up the new Tim Dietrich.ca website, and I need to have this, as I feel it is a vital component. The new website is looking fantastic, so I really can’t wait to deploy it.  I have redesigned the site to use LINQ to SQL to retrieve the information, which is very fast, and all the components (such as images and text) download on-demand only.  Just a few more tweaks, and a fix involving this contact form, and I’ll be all set.

Please stay tuned for updates!