Email Delivery - Best Methods

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WP Mail SMTP

For any company that cares about reliably sending email from their site (either notifications of form submissions or confirmations to users) using a SMTP plugin is needed. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ and connect to Sendgrid. The benefit is obviously reliability from sendgrid, but also the ability to search logs to troubleshoot if the email actually went through.

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Mail-in-a-box

For the mail server, I went through the Mail-In-A-Box install procedure. I haven't locked it down as tight yet but do have password SSH disabled - that is #1 for securing a VPS. If you want, I can document how to set up the mail server and send that your way as well. My set up is a bit different than most because I have external DNS (external to the mail server). They recommend using the mail server as DNS but I wanted it separate for redundancy purposes.

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