Are you looking to send emails through the server directly ? You should never do that. Instead, you first need to choose an SMTP provider (mailgun, postmark etc) and then use a WOrdPress plugin that can use that SMTP. I highly suggest using this one : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
I suggest a plugin like WP Mail SMTP (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/) and set up the website to send email using SMTP. Source: 11 months ago
Typically you'd need to be making sure your site is configured to send email through your actual mail server, using something like WP Mail SMTP. Source: over 1 year ago
My organization, a non-profit, uses Gsuite for email, so I'm thinking sending via that server might be all around a better idea. I see WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin and some others in the plugin repository that look like they might do what I'm looking for. Source: over 1 year ago
I also want to recommend the WP Mail SMTP plugin. It makes setting up email really easy, including swapping out email services. I'm not sure how you'd integrate it into a custom app, but I'm sure it can be done. Source: almost 2 years ago
Depending on your host, you may need an SMTP plugin, like this one by WP Forms. Source: almost 2 years ago
In order to look like you're a legitimate service that's supposed to be using the email, you need to hook wordpress up to a real email server instead. Your email provided will have smtp server information (just do a google search for your email provider's name and then "smtp settings"). Once you have those settings, use a plugin like this one to connect wordpress to the email server directly. Source: almost 2 years ago
Yeah web hosts are blocking this. You'll need to install the WP SMTP plugin and then setup it up to send via your email via IMAP. Source: over 2 years ago
Try this https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ Has worked for me for yonks. Source: over 2 years ago
Seems this has to do with the changes to mail in WP 5.7 +. Contact the plugin dev's for any plugin that uses SMTP to send email. Try replacing it with one that work. I have WP Mail SMTP by WPForms free working for example. Source: almost 3 years ago
I suggest you setup SMTP on your WP with https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ , so you control exactly how your mails are sent. Source: almost 3 years ago
The easiest way these days is to signup for a Free transactional SMTP and setup them to send email on from your Server. You can find a few here Free SMTP Servers Free plans are sufficient for low email numbers. Then use a plugin like wp mail smtp to setup email sending. Source: almost 3 years ago
Here is a plugin that makes the email part really simple - https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/. Source: almost 3 years ago
MailGun and SendGrid are great. My most recent service I used was SMTP.com - they are a paid service that connects for free through WP Forms's SMTP plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/. Source: about 3 years ago
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. Source: about 3 years ago
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