How to Use the Gmail SMTP Server to Send Emails for Free

Are you getting the most out of your Gmail account? 🤔 With the Gmail SMTP server, you can send emails from your WordPress site... for free! 💥 Learn more right here 👆

Most people know Gmail for its clean interface and useful features, like search operators and add-ons. But you can also use Gmail for more: the Gmail SMTP server.

With the Gmail SMTP server, you’ll be able to send emails from your Gmail account using other email clients, such as Outlook or Thunderbird. But more importantly, by tweaking the gmail SMTP settings, you can also use the Google SMTP server to send emails from your WordPress site. For free!

This is a really great way to make your WordPress site’s emails more reliable without needing to spend money on a dedicated email sending service. Gmail lets you send up to 500 emails per day, which is more than enough for the vast majority of WordPress sites.

In this video, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the Gmail SMTP server!

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🕘Timestamps

0:00 Intro
1:01 How to Configure WordPress to Send Emails via Gmail SMTP Server
2:07 Install and Configure Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log
2:55 Create Your Google App
5:30 Add Gmail App Client IDs to Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log
6:14 Send a Test Email

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📚 Resources

🛠 How to Use the Gmail SMTP Server to Send Emails for Free

👉 To find the Gmail SMTP server, you can use these details:
Gmail SMTP name: Your full name
Gmail SMTP password: The password that you use to log in to Gmail
Gmail SMTP port (TLS): 587
Gmail SMTP port (SSL): 465

👉 To find other common (but not universal) Gmail SMTP settings, you can use these details:
Requires SSL: Yes
Requires TLS: Yes
Requires authentication / Use authentication: Yes
Requires secure connection / Use secure connection: Yes

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[marie-joseiemenschot]

Thank you very much for this clear explanation. It works for me except: I can't select/fill in a different user email than my gmail account email. I 've put different mailadresses I want to use in my project in the test users section. But I can't to access them in my wordpress Smtp mailer and contactform(7) and. How can I accomplish the use of different senders than my own gmail adress in the forms of a wepsite.

[Lazarusssss]

Do I have to have business email for my wordpress site?

[matrixanu]

Awesome and Thank you....I was using Sendinblue for my website till now but recently they became greedy and started putting Hourly Email limits which was really becoming a nightmare because there are some days when the Email requests are high when we sell a new product which has high demand for 1 or 2 days....thats when Sendinblue fails miserably and they dont even have a clear paid service for Transactional emails which pissed me off even more....So finally I searched a lot for best smtp email option and found you guys...Thank you so much !!!

*Also, the Authorization process has changed slightly in Google cloud console which may be a little confusing to less technical people so please do update your video as per the new changes in google...Thank you !!!

[Lazarusssss]

I meant, do I have to have a business gmail account?

[terrybattersby]

The WordPress version latest Setup App installs WordPress with an empty database table. Is there a quick fix? I guess I will install it manually via Putty

[powerseostrategy]

How can I use Gmail SMTP for sending in my Outlook program?

[talmaman]

OMG you are awesome!!!! thank you soo much!!!! It drove me crazy this problem, so happy there are people like you!!