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

[@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.

[@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!

[@Roco1]

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

[@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.

[@johanloof3151]

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

[@WPCrafter]

I did do a video on that but it was in the context of setting up email for Cloudways. But it would be a good dedicated video.

[@mtoleezy8531]

@@WPCrafter Hi, must I have WPform Pro? I am really struggling although I have done all procedures correctly. I still can't receive emails from website

[@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!

[@doubler287]

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.

[@mannuu76]

Looking forward for that Email Service Failover feature. Hope you get your hands on it and share your thoughts. BTW. Great content you publish.

[@rev.pattysacredwalkhome]

Thanks Adam, great resource. Can't wait for your update about this plugin!

[@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.

[@craiggrella]

@acs 360 Not sure what you're asking for? You asking for a tutorial video on how to do it? If so, I recommend checking out amazon's support or contacting them direct.

[@gregparsns]

Perfect timing for me, I am just looking at setting this all up ! As always you rock Adam. Great Video!

[@DaveStevens192]

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.

[@chanceinman]

The best tutorial I've seen AND ITS FREE. Thank you!

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks and thanks for watching.

[@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.

[@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.

[@HealthglowsNet]

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your tutorial, THANK YOU, you are my HERO 🙏

[@marcoprofwebsitenl6484]

I knew they were working on it and now you are explaining how it worksVery useful. Thank you 👍

[@WPCrafter]

Yea they nailed it with this one.

[@BeatsWithHooks]

this helped a lot, thank you

[@electronicbox6990]

So far so good! All set up, but the one mil USD question is what we have to do after that if we already have a woocommerce template with 2 email forms? How to tell wordpress to use this smtp instaed other basic form?

[@HorusLondon]

I am a big fan of yours! You can always get me out of trouble :) I can't wait for your video about Multi-Path Conditional Automation Funnel ;)

[@pezreloaded8436]

Awesome plugin, been waiting for this. Thanks for the helpful explainer vid.

[@WPCrafter]

Yes it super awesome that is free. It's not on all of my websites.

[@coffeesupercharged]

I just installed this plugin and following your instructions came up with this error after testing. "Oops! PHPMailer is modified by WPMailSMTP\MailCatcherV6." Apparently there is an issue with the Wordpress upgrade as of version 5.5, August 2020. I reverted back to the previous email smtp which I was using "WP Mail SMTP" and my test email went through just fine. So if the Fluent SMTP is better perhaps they need to address this error and then try again. Thank you for your video. you have been and inspiration and a great help to me in my journey creating my website business.

[@simonehughes1233]

I had the same issue

[@rtr3120]

Someday I'll need it. Thanks for sharing!

[@paulwright4765]

As always another great video Adam - many thanks!

[@WPCrafter]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tomchambers9787]

Why does my question keep disappearing.. It was when we implement this SMTP for our wp websites, will the failing email requests like this begin working again or will the continue to fail. wp_mail($mailto, $subject, $body); Most of this type of wp email fails... and was wondering if adding the smtp would make them work again or totally kill this type send.

[@sydneyboy71]

This video helped me a lot. Plugin works perfect! :) Your videos very helpfull. Thank you for your work!

[@masteredlifebyHope]

Thank you so much for this video, Adam. The problem I experienced was swiftly resolved!

[@sk8erjsmash]

This video came at perfect timing. Thanks Adam!

[@DonBrownII]

this was a great help. I'm using this plugin in conjunction with Weforms.

[@earthandcraft]

Oh thank GOODNESS! A tutorial that doesn't involve using a third party. Thank you so much!

[@megansmedia9034]

I'm going to try fluent SMTP thank you for sharing

[@nichtunlogisch]

Works like a charm. Great video, thanks!

[@NeilSnapePhotography]

I'll have to watch this at least one more time. Usually I follow your videos and understand them. Not so with this one. Implementation yes I followed through, not hard. Yet what use is this plug in? I have a booking plugin and of course a contact form. Users send info requests or bookings through this ( I imagine Elementor forms is using PHP SMTP to send these. I receive the requests ( unfortunately impossible to reply to the sender as my email is the receiver). How does this plug in help?

[@crisansag878]

Very great video, hope to get some amazon ses tutorials too :)

[@nauthooazhar1769]

Thank you for your help dear friend

[@behthiansu]

Thanks Adam! Just in time

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome. Yea its a great plugin with the perfect price.

[@neilwilliams2883]

Just what I needed... impressed how quickly you got this video out, Adam!

[@sbfotome]

I would recommend also setting up the truemail coding. It verifies all the email that user submit and it will display an error message that you can change to whatever you want. Truemail.io is a pay as you go services. 7.00 for 1000 emails but dang worth it.

[@AlexGraphicD]

I don’t understand what is the user case of this service with fluent smtp and How do you set up the coding?

[@sbfotome]

@@AlexGraphicD Most hosting companies block plugins from using the wp sending port. So, you need a smtp plugin to work around it. To setit up you just configure the smtp outgoing settings and then you Now your website can send form submissions. Tons of YT video's about this and how to bypass it.

[@ZUMBAFITNESSDANCETRAINING]

thanks sooo much Adam. You do make a huge difference :)

[@freshacademy-bg]

I have this massge? SMTP connect() failed. github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting fluent smtp

[@KaiBuskirk]

still a great vid!! great job adam! kai

[@markuserikssen]

Great tutorial. Is there any information on how to set up this email failover system?

[@NewbieInForeignLand]

Wow thank you so much , I currently looking for such addin. 😁

[@nationalibus9896]

Thank You so much for this. I do have couple questions: - those outgoing emails sent from Wordpress will be stored where, in case you need to check them? - what is the PHP option and how it works? - many times incoming emails from systems like Amazon and Mailchimp and others goes to Junk just because the amount of external references - images and links - . What do you recommend to do when building emails from Wordpress to your clients to avoid this?

[@kennethsmith9115]

Thanks for taking time to walk us through this plugin. Unfortunately I can not receive any of the sent emails. When I send test email it gives successful message and the log shows success. I have sent test email to 2 different gmail accounts and 1 outlook account. The mail never arrives. I have checked the inbox, spam and junk folders and there is nothing coming in. I am using Host Gator shared hosting. Note I tried WP Mail SMTP and the results were the same.

[@John1v1]

wow this video is perfect thanks

[@isntlifebetter]

Yes it works!!! Thank youuuu!!!

[@alexahaza5144]

Great info there Adam, I preciate it. However, I didn't see Gmail service for us who use Gsuit. Please advise. Thanks

[@seoboost5231]

Yes i have the same issue

[@AndreaCinnamondCreative]

I set this up for my site and it was easy. What do I do if my client has a number of email addresses that forms get sent from? Do I set this up for each email address? Thank you

[@anongbalitatol6333]

I finished the whole video waiting for that shotgun appear again somewhere. As always great video tutorial. Thanks

[@PhilippeVanLoo]

Another amazing video Adam. 🙏 Just on point for what I was searching for !!! You are just the best wordpress channel ever !!! 🙏❤️ Thank you so much for your great work and spirit !

[@naimhmem1006]

Thank you very much it's work for me

[@silversunastrology]

I am so confused. I followed all of the instructions, but my email tests keep failing.

Like your videos. I was hoping to find out what the two unlabeled numbers are on the graph of the plugging backend main page. It's confusing because each side has different numbers with no labels to inform what it is.

[@SLICE_IS]

thanks for the video- i completed every step successful, except the test email. I got an error. Any advice?

[@believe-in-righteousness]

Thanks mate

[@aemeromedia]

THANKS VERY MUCH

[@ghlee2300]

Could you do a video on creating an email address with your domain name (free) using email forwarding!? I'm on wp. I did it, but I don't think it's working correctly. Thanks! 😘

[@bharat9574]

great videos

[@russell.h0rt0n]

Amazing video, thank you Adam. Quick question: I use Gsuite to host my email domain so just incase my website goes down, I still get emails. 😁 But.. for this.. should I always create the new email address within where my website domain is hosted?.. (like in your video).. because its about the website form connection.. not an 'email inbox'?

[@WPCrafter]

You can just as easily use the SMTP info for one of the existing email addresses. I did it the way I did in the video to show how easy it is to configure, but if you already have an email account that you want to use, no need to pay for an additional one :-)

[@russell.h0rt0n]

@@WPCrafter Ahhh, I see.. thank you 😃 👍

[@sinbadddx]

Any videos on WP Mail SMTP and why it sends emails into the junk folder?

[@andrewbeach1685]

Gangsta with the black hoodie Adam. Will this plugin notify you when it has failed over?

[@chadtarheel]

Thanks, Adam. The new Fail Feature is a big Wordpress win!

[@kevindarian247]

Thank so much sir. My mails still goes to spam. What do I do?

[@LanceMcGrew]

I remain baffled about what to use for generic email address. contact@ support@ admin@ etc. Maybe service specific for example closings@ for our Real Estate closing form, news@ for our Newsletter MailChimp form? Bad idea NOT using same generic email for such?

[@storcke9657]

This is great, assuming that your provider gives you SMTP email. I will try with a google app password and see what happens.

[@LeonBourne]

I have set everything up just as shown in your video and I am getting the following "SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.".I do not have any other SMTP plugins and I have the website hosted on Bluehost. Any ideas what could be wrong?

[@mayanikolova8353]

Thanks Adam, great as always. Do you know if you can set up an Exchange email account using this plugin?

[@devynsharpe]

You can, use the custom server option.

[@mayanikolova8353]

@@devynsharpe Thank you!!!

[@darkjedi7797]

Thanks Adam!

[@unorthodoxmedia451]

How will this affect my email if i have a Gsuite account? I am registering my domain from bluehost with cloudflare like in your cloudways setup.

[@BrantK147]

Isn't it good practice to create subdomains for sending emails?

[@CliveStephenson]

Is there a SMTP solution when the domain is registered with another provider, ie website hosted on my server but customer has domain hosted with Godaddy/ionos/123Reg and the A record pointing to my server?

[@bySterling]

Fantastic!

[@ultimatekv]

Nice and Simple. Thank You Adam. Love it.

[@WPCrafter]

Glad you like it!

[@cinek8818]

Hello. Thanks for tutorial. I am using Email Template customizer and WP Mail SMTP. Test emails are sent and delivered correctly. My problem is that no real customer emails are sent. What can be wrong?

[@noragray1956]

I'm having the same issue

[@haithamharti3986]

heey thanks for this video i just want to ask if i should login to siteground with th same account that i loged in with wordpress

[@loveworldpraise7813]

Thanks for this video. I HAVE A QUESTION? I am using cloudways hosting for my woocommece site but I want to use hostinger for emails because of the unlimited mailbox as seen in one of your videos. What will be the setup using this plugin on Wordpress?

[@Rob-vt1mz]

Glad I found this I've had two issues where smtp stops and I get no type of alert. Caused me to lose a lead today. Going to switch over to this plugin.

[@renatooshida5759]

Thank you!

[@postnatalmotcoach1006]

Hello, thank you for this, my client doesn’t yet have a host or domain and its in progress but ive offered to help on my managed wordpress site until she does. So can i do this still ? And add her email ? Or do we need to first have a host and domain

[@hassannaveed2083]

i follow the video and my fluent smtp email log show email send successfully but i did'nt recieve any mail can someone help what's the problem

[@SmithyProductions]

Great video! Instead of using my host’s (Godaddy) C-Panel email, I use Office 365. I was having major issues sending emails from my website until I called GoDaddy and they said sending emails from Office 365 is not allowed because the email is not on the server (like you did in this video). My workaround was to create aliases on my server and send outbound emails from fictitious emails (ie: [e-mail]) in order to send out messages. Of course these are ALL landing in spam. Is there a better way to do this or should I move back to serving my emails from C-Panel (I just figured Office 365 was a better email service). Would love your help. Thank you!

[@N24N6now]

Did you ever figure this out?

[@SmithyProductions]

@@N24N6now switched to SiteGround 😂

[@N24N6now]

@@SmithyProductions thanks I’m seriously considering it.

[@dadungrpj8314]

On email test it keeps showing this error "SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Failed to connect to server"

[@pinoyhat]

how about sending email to GMAIL user account? sending email verification or button/link? in gmail do you experience 4minutes delay?

[@anonymousf454]

Can i use this for cold email marketing?

[@filestudioindonesia]

thanks a lot

[@kristynatakacova8603]

thank you

[@chrisabaird]

Where then do you go to change the outgoing emails for new registration / comments? etc

[@mohsinworld]

If I connect SMTP with that plugin will WooCommerce emails uses that setting or not? How can I be sure every email is sending through that SMPT? Thanks

[@dedrickjordan8405]

Absolutely

[@estesgarner534]

Will this plugin work with Cloudways hosting or do I need a third-party provider?

[@harshagarwal3995]

They dont provide email service

[@RRoss5035]

I followed the video and using Fluent forms but still not receiving emails other than the test emails. Any advice, please?

[@FreemenofAustralia]

Does this replace the default WP emails being sent out? How to configure the email templates to send out for eg new users, or new password reset?

[@faisalarafin]

Hey Adam, I am using MailChimp for mail marketing. But the problem is, those mail are appearing in "Promotion" box in Gmail. What can i do for let them in, in inbox??

[@arturo5050]

Do they know have the failover feature?

[@calkid49]

Is there a plug in that can add multiple "From Email" accounts thru the same website. For example in my "Contact Us" section a user can select a specific board member to send a note to. I have 7 members from the President to the Webmaster. When it leaves the website it ends up in the spam folder of the board member's email. I'm trying to get the contact us form from each board member to go to the "In Box" of their email. Any suggestions?

[@JudgeSikhs]

So the email log is always successful. But some of the clients are still not receiving any emails at all. Any ideas why? They’re using GoDaddy for hosting and default email server

[@raqueliatheimpatientgardne8196]

what do you do when it says SMPT ERROR Could not authenticate?

[@9797sabina]

Hi Adam, do you know if the failover feature is available yet?