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

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  • čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
  • 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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Komentáře • 264

  • @gregparsns
    @gregparsns Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @bighitspublishing
    @bighitspublishing Před 3 lety +1

    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!

  • @AskAngelaBrown
    @AskAngelaBrown Před 2 lety +9

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

  • @Roco1
    @Roco1 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @RatingARKReviews
    @RatingARKReviews Před 2 lety +5

    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.

  • @VForcesoul
    @VForcesoul Před 3 lety +1

    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!

  • @harisimran3002
    @harisimran3002 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks, Adam, this tutorial has solved my multiple problems. Thank you sooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Best WordPress tutor

  • @masteredlifebyHope
    @masteredlifebyHope Před 2 lety

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

  • @stevenvprasad5029
    @stevenvprasad5029 Před 3 lety +2

    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 ❤️

    • @WPCrafter
      @WPCrafter  Před 3 lety +1

      Awesome, glad people are still getting those notifications.

  • @rev.pattysacredwalkhome
    @rev.pattysacredwalkhome Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @AthloneH
    @AthloneH Před 3 lety +2

    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.

  • @sk8erjsmash
    @sk8erjsmash Před 3 lety

    This video came at perfect timing. Thanks Adam!

  • @mannuu76
    @mannuu76 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @johanloof3151
    @johanloof3151 Před 3 lety +11

    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
      @WPCrafter  Před 3 lety +1

      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
      @mtoleezy8531 Před 3 lety

      @@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

  • @chanceinman
    @chanceinman Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @WPCrafter
      @WPCrafter  Před 2 lety

      Thanks and thanks for watching.

  • @HealthglowsNet
    @HealthglowsNet Před 2 lety

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

  • @catanuba24
    @catanuba24 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @BeatsWithHooks
    @BeatsWithHooks Před rokem

    this helped a lot, thank you

  • @StevenStoddart
    @StevenStoddart Před 2 lety +1

    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 😃

  • @HorusLondon
    @HorusLondon Před 3 lety

    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 ;)

  • @TSAchristian
    @TSAchristian Před rokem

    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

  • @paulwright4765
    @paulwright4765 Před 3 lety +1

    As always another great video Adam - many thanks!

  • @nichtunlogisch
    @nichtunlogisch Před 2 lety

    Works like a charm. Great video, thanks!

  • @pezreloaded8436
    @pezreloaded8436 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @WPCrafter
      @WPCrafter  Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @petricedouglas
    @petricedouglas Před rokem

    Thank you. Easy to follow and works perfectly. AWESOME!!!

  • @ZUMBAFITNESSDANCETRAINING

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

  • @marcoprofwebsitenl6484
    @marcoprofwebsitenl6484 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @WPCrafter
      @WPCrafter  Před 3 lety

      Yea they nailed it with this one.

  • @neilwilliams2883
    @neilwilliams2883 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @1largefatboy
    @1largefatboy Před rokem

    Great info...
    Your style of teaching is super and understandable

  • @sydneyboy71
    @sydneyboy71 Před 2 lety

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

  • @fredfabrega1664
    @fredfabrega1664 Před 2 lety +1

    Such a great plugin. Thanks !

  • @rtr3120
    @rtr3120 Před 11 měsíci

    Someday I'll need it. Thanks for sharing!

  • @lukaszpiotrluczak
    @lukaszpiotrluczak Před 3 lety

    Thanks Adam! Great timing :) I will tell about this plugin to my customers and also include it in "let's make a website training challenge" (this will in Polish so I think you will not be able tobtake a part ;))

  • @Quantumdemetrio
    @Quantumdemetrio Před rokem

    Thanks for the hard work you put into this help you do!

  • @designermike
    @designermike Před rokem

    Awesome, thank you! Worked a treat.

  • @Cyber.Operator.0
    @Cyber.Operator.0 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @davidadams421
    @davidadams421 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

  • @isntlifebetter
    @isntlifebetter Před 3 lety

    Yes it works!!! Thank youuuu!!!

  • @NewbieInForeignLand
    @NewbieInForeignLand Před 3 lety

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

  • @DonBrownII
    @DonBrownII Před rokem

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

  • @clintirvine9495
    @clintirvine9495 Před 3 lety

    Awesome, thanks!

  • @coffeesupercharged
    @coffeesupercharged Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @bySterling
    @bySterling Před 3 lety

    Fantastic!

  • @superchefliumaohsing
    @superchefliumaohsing Před 3 lety

    thanks for this! free and amazing

  • @behthiansu
    @behthiansu Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks Adam! Just in time

    • @WPCrafter
      @WPCrafter  Před 3 lety

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

  • @megansmedia9034
    @megansmedia9034 Před 3 lety

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

  • @DaveStevens192
    @DaveStevens192 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @SuperFilip2012
    @SuperFilip2012 Před 3 lety +3

    Great video Adam! Initial SMTP setup went smoothly and then, when I try to send a test email I got SMTP connect failed error. I have figured it out that my encryption needs to be TLS and not SSL as in your example as my port is 587 (still newbie :)). Thank you once again.

  • @darkjedi7797
    @darkjedi7797 Před 3 lety

    Thanks Adam!

  • @renatooshida5759
    @renatooshida5759 Před 3 lety

    Thank you!

  • @KaiBuskirk
    @KaiBuskirk Před 2 lety

    still a great vid!! great job adam!
    kai

  • @crisansag878
    @crisansag878 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @nauthooazhar1769
    @nauthooazhar1769 Před rokem

    Thank you for your help dear friend

  • @ericgarcia1912
    @ericgarcia1912 Před 2 lety

    Thank you 🙏

  • @meetmahmod
    @meetmahmod Před 3 lety +1

    Much appreciated man 💚
    I'm following from Morocco ❤️

    • @WPCrafter
      @WPCrafter  Před 3 lety +2

      Thank you, will have to visit there some time.

    • @meetmahmod
      @meetmahmod Před 3 lety

      @@WPCrafter I would love to meet you 😍

  • @believe-in-righteousness

    Thanks mate

  • @aemeromedia
    @aemeromedia Před 3 lety

    THANKS VERY MUCH

  • @naimhmem1006
    @naimhmem1006 Před 3 lety

    Thank you very much it's work for me

  • @KnowItNow931
    @KnowItNow931 Před měsícem

    wow this video is perfect thanks

  • @filestudioindonesia
    @filestudioindonesia Před 2 lety

    thanks a lot

  • @doubler287
    @doubler287 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @craiggrella
    @craiggrella Před 3 lety +3

    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
      @craiggrella Před 2 lety

      @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.

  • @bharat9574
    @bharat9574 Před 2 lety

    great videos

  • @imkareem1600
    @imkareem1600 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you very much!
    Adam may you please make a video about Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and how to connect it with WordPress SMTP... etc...
    Please!
    Regards

  • @gianniritschard9227
    @gianniritschard9227 Před 2 lety

    Great tutorial, thank you! Is there also a way to get all the email that haven't been delivered in the days before the smtp was set up (while email sending didn't work properly)?

  • @AmadorDesigns
    @AmadorDesigns Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @stevesloan5935
    @stevesloan5935 Před rokem

    Great tips, thanks! I'm curious how, if any way, you are currently getting notified of any email delivery problems or SMTP service account problems.

  • @kristynatakacova8603
    @kristynatakacova8603 Před rokem

    thank you

  • @mohamedsahbouni5135
    @mohamedsahbouni5135 Před 3 lety +1

    thank man

  • @nationalibus9896
    @nationalibus9896 Před 3 lety

    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?

  •  Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @loveworldpraise7813
    @loveworldpraise7813 Před 3 lety

    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?

  • @electronicbox6990
    @electronicbox6990 Před rokem +1

    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?

  • @markuserikssen
    @markuserikssen Před rokem

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

  • @NeilSnapePhotography
    @NeilSnapePhotography Před 3 lety +2

    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?

  • @earthandcraft
    @earthandcraft Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @larssteendam7304
    @larssteendam7304 Před 2 lety

    This is just what I needed. Can you tell me what the Siteground DNS settings are for mx records and cname. My settings are changes by the guy who build my site and made a mess of it. Thanks so much..

  • @paulscryptocalls1694
    @paulscryptocalls1694 Před 2 lety

    Hello, great video. Does this plugin work with outgoing Mailchimp emails?

  • @johnwatsonphotography
    @johnwatsonphotography Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @postnatalmotcoach1006
    @postnatalmotcoach1006 Před 2 lety

    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

  • @DavidMortaz
    @DavidMortaz Před 2 lety

    Do you have a video where you show how you are using the Email plugin u showed here is being used on a Contact form?! It would be helpful to see how the form works with the SMTP plugin.

  • @anongbalitatol6333
    @anongbalitatol6333 Před 3 lety

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

  • @hmoobmeskas9249
    @hmoobmeskas9249 Před 3 lety

    Thank you very much for all your videos. I find them very useful to watch and appreciated for all the work you've put in for us.
    Anyway, I wanted to use Fluentsmtp but after I had setup "FluentSMTP" on my website. I did a test to send email and I got an error message saying:
    "Oops! SMTP Error: Could not authenticate."
    Any idea why I got that error and how to fix it?

    • @parhamm
      @parhamm Před 3 lety

      Same problem. Get the error message:
      SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. I even disabled the Wordfence plugin and still not luck. Anyone have a solution?

  • @henrymendeez
    @henrymendeez Před 3 lety +1

    Awesome! I would love to see a video of you explaining about Amazon SES and configuration of this service. Thanks for this video.

  • @burglar4885
    @burglar4885 Před 3 lety +2

    Hello Adam,
    I have been using PostSMTP plugin for a while now which also does its job, but do you have experience with fluentSMTP vs PostSMTP?
    I have already been looking at the differences and which one is better. I couldn't find anything about it.
    Furthermore you make good and clear videos which I always enjoy watching.
    Thanks for this video again, I hope you can have an answer to my question.
    Greetings from the Netherlands

    • @AlainDitDat
      @AlainDitDat Před 2 lety

      Does your mail get in to the inbox? Greetings from South-Holland

  • @kennethsmith9115
    @kennethsmith9115 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @webtalks5113
    @webtalks5113 Před 2 lety

    Hi guys! I did everything as it is in the video. It works fine for iCloud, Gmail etc. Anyway when I try to send an email to a client with custom email on their server (hosting) the email goes to spam. Any suggestions?

  • @quangthanh443
    @quangthanh443 Před 2 lety

    good

  • @pmaly78
    @pmaly78 Před 3 lety

    Do you have a video on how to avoid the spam folder? My outgoing emails, sent from my webserver, is sent to spam folders alot lately...

  • @robertseitzberg
    @robertseitzberg Před 3 lety +1

    What about "Elastic Email Sender" Plugin? Is that the same as AWS or is there some difference? They integrate with Groundhogg and tell Groundhogg when a contact email is undeliverable or when they mark it spam and groundhog can unsubscribe them from the list. They say its better then SMTP but I've never used it. I wanted to see your thoughts.

  • @coffeesupercharged
    @coffeesupercharged Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @haithamharti3986
    @haithamharti3986 Před 2 lety

    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

  • @moderndwellingsofGeorgia

    I believe I've followed your instructions to a T. My test email preformed impeccably, but my Kadence Form doesn't send an email of the form, nor is it logged. Baffled! Help greatly appreciated.

  • @dedrickjordan8405
    @dedrickjordan8405 Před 2 lety

    Absolutely

  • @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

  • @michaeljarcher
    @michaeljarcher Před 3 lety +1

    Very nice plugin, about to put onto my 10 websites, the logging element is an absolutely golden feature. The price is on point. Thank you.

    • @WPCrafter
      @WPCrafter  Před 3 lety +1

      Haha, price is perfect :-). I already put it on all of my websites yesterday. I messed up in the video and didn't show the cool dashboard.

    • @michaeljarcher
      @michaeljarcher Před 3 lety

      @@WPCrafter Done one already, very easy almost too simple. thanks again, look forward to other great content.

  • @ghlee2300
    @ghlee2300 Před 3 lety

    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! 😘

  • @9797sabina
    @9797sabina Před 3 lety

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

  • @igorbenderskiy
    @igorbenderskiy Před 3 lety +2

    Can it be configured to send automatic notifications when someone replied in the comments section?

  • @PhilippeVanLoo
    @PhilippeVanLoo Před 3 lety +2

    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 !