How To Setup WordPress SMTP For Sending Emails - Must Watch For All Website Owners

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to configure your WordPress website to send emails that get delivered into the inbox and not the SPAM folder.

Table Of Contents
00:00:00 The Problem
00:01:33 4 Key Features
00:03:30 Plugin Install
00:04:18 Configure Plugin
00:05:10 Getting SMTP Info
00:07:25 Test That It Works
00:08:43 Configuring Multiple Email Connections
00:11:06 Why Email Failover Is Crucial

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[RatingARKReviews]

Very important! If it does not work to send to your email address you have to modify the email address in your WordPress profile, because WP Email SMTP and fluentSMTP will take as implicit that address. I hope it will help because it gave me some hassle.

[coffeesupercharged]

Correction to my previous comment, I discovered that I cannot have these 2 plugins activated at the same time. I deactivated the WP Mail SMTP which allowed the Fluent SMTP plugin to work just fine. Great, in fact. Thank you Adam.

[TSAchristian]

awesome video... I wasted 3 hours trying to cfg a different plugin & my workspace api settings all to result in errors with inaccurate error logging - then found this video... in under the 5 minutes I successfully sent myself a test email... THANK YOU

[Roco]

Excellent, finally I have emails from WordPress getting delivered rather than getting lost in space, thanks 😊

[davidadams]

PHPMailer works flawlessly for me and has a richer feature set, including detailed Wordpress debug log recording, SMTP, DKIM and the ability to send email without authenticating to a mailbox. Once setup it just becomes a solid workhouse. Three years now, six websites, zero failures. Oh, and it's open source and comes free with Wordpress.

[bighitspublishing]

Brilliant, it's rare some 'expert' does what they say they will but WPCrafter's advice works. We'll be dropping back here regularly to fix our mistakes and get stuff to work. Superb!

[VForcesoul]

Just as I started doing this for the first time for a client. I was reading a "how to" guide lmao I was installing mailpoet and I liked the setup for that site. I saw easy smtp or whatever and remembered a post about it being hacked or bugged over at the admin bar so I stayed away. This email logging feature looks great and I'm at siteground so this helped a lot!

[AthloneH]

100% Agree with this video, it's a crucial service and this plugin is super value (FREE!). Thanks for bringing this to our attention Adam.

[doubler]

Before I moved to Fluent SMTP, I was using POST SMTP and of course, it was a free plugin and it had a Failover as well. However, POST SMTP was a one man show (not that is a bad thing) but Fluent SMTP made me feel more comfortable especially since I place it on ALL our client's sites. NOTE: Just recently POST SMTP was purchased by another company. As Adam says, it is a simple fast to set up and the Email Log is a life saver when clients complain their emails are not coming in. Just check the log to see if it was sent.

[harisimran]

Thanks, Adam, this tutorial has solved my multiple problems. Thank you
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[johanloof]

Great video! The logging feature is really useful. It would be awesome to see more content on email deliverability, setting up SPF records and such. It can be a bit confusing

[StevenStoddart]

Thank you for taking the time to create this... It has solved th thorny issue in no time 😃 One small observation, I assumed you do not need to create a NEW email address if you already have one you want to use... Well, I trued doing that and it seems to work 😃

[AskAngelaBrown]

You're a great teacher. Thanks so much for this video and for explaining it in terms even I can understand. You Rock!

[AmadorDesigns]

Thanks this fixed my issue. No emails sent through the WordPress contact forms would forward on the godaddy cpanel to personal email addresses, because the header information came from an untrusted source. I couldn't figure it out. I was going in circles for days. After installing this SMTP plugin all emails now forward properly. The GoDaddy Support reps couldn't figure it out either.

[Cyber.Operator.]

Finally the only video in this god damn youtube that teaches how to correctly set up the smtp stuff. Thank you very much for this.. Was going crazy.

[DaveStevens]

I use a paid plugin. This one looks great and plan to start switching them over. I manage several restaurants and having an email back up feature will be a game-changer as their customer needs those emails immediately.

[johnwatsonphotography]

Great app, Just aheads up, anyone using gmail workspace. you will need to create an App password in the google account security settings, as this is required due to googles 2 step verification.

[catanuba]

You just saved me some money and frustration! Thank you so much! Subscribed!!

[stevenvprasad]

Thanks alot brother....!!! Perfect timing, I thought about it night before sleep and I got your notification when I woke up. Thank you very much ❤️

[craiggrella]

Its important to note that SES requires moving new accounts out of sandbox into production, which takes a quick application at SES and can take a day or two for approval from amazon. Typically, new users will get capped in production at a max of 50, 000 emails per day, which isn't a problem for most, but if you're migrating an existing userbase and need to send a ton of emails on day one - that might be an issue for those bigger sites. You'd of course want to square that with SES before launch. They're generally fast to respond.