{"id":41575,"date":"2023-07-31T08:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpopal.com\/?p=41575"},"modified":"2023-07-31T08:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:55:56","slug":"set-up-wp-mail-smtp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/set-up-wp-mail-smtp\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set up WP Mail SMTP – Email Configuration in WordPress for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

To set up WP Mail SMTP is not an easy task. In this guide, we will show you the detailed way of setting up WP Mail SMTP for your WordPress on any host and server.<\/p>\n

WP Mail SMTP is one of the best WordPress Email SMTP plugins that is so helpful for you to send and manage WordPress email with a secure email transfer protocol or SMTP. WordPress Mail SMTP is important, but not sure all of you know how to use and set up SMTP in WordPress. In this blog, we will show you detailed ways to set up SMTP for your WordPress easily.<\/p>\n

To send emails to customers, your website should install WP Mail SMTP and get the email notification from WordPress and the email contact form. The main reasons for not getting email as usually because WordPress use the PHP mail function to send them. Almost of hosting companies don’t configure it properly and some simply disable it to prevent abuse.<\/p>\n

SMTP stands for secure email transfer protocol. It is a standard way to send emails. It requires you to log in to an email server to send emails, to prevent the abuse of the hosting server and to improve email deliverability.<\/p>\n

How to Set up WP Mail SMTP<\/strong><\/h3>\n

To use WP Mail SMTP for your WordPress website, you should install and activate the WP Mail SMTP plugin.<\/p>\n

Navigate to WordPress Dashboard Admin > Plugins > Choose Add New:<\/p>\n

\"add<\/p>\n

Install WP Mail SMTP plugin > Activate<\/p>\n

\"install<\/p>\n

You can skip the setup Wizard and click on “Go back to the Dashboard”<\/p>\n

\"wp-mail-smtp-setting\"<\/p>\n

Choose Settings > WP Mail SMTP page to configure the plugin Settings, you have to fill all information:<\/p>\n

– From email: Your email address which you use to send all WordPress email
\n– From name: It’s a email name that be used to send emails. You should use your website title as front email name.
\n– Mailer: Select “Other SMTP” here as you will be sending emails using your hots SMTP server.
\n– Return path: Check on the box to receive delivery notifications or bounced messages.<\/p>\n

If you want to use your host, then you need to select other SMTP and enter the SMTP server settings provided by hosting company. To connect website with SMTP server, you have to set some requirements for each hosting server. Hence, the values will be different from WordPress hosting company to other.<\/p>\n

1. Setting up WP Mail SMTP on Bluehost<\/h3>\n

Bluehost is one of the best hosting companies in the world and it is highly recommended by Developer and experts. Bluehost is highly recommended to all users who are using WordPress as bloggers or small business websites.<\/p>\n

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– SMTP host: Mail.example.com
\n– Encryption: TLS
\n– SMTP Port: 587
\n– SMTP Username: It’s your email address (e.g. wordpress@example.com)
\n– SMTP Password: Enter your email account password<\/p>\n

Remember that example.com with your own domain name.<\/p>\n

2. Setting up WP Mail SMTP on SiteGround<\/h3>\n

Siteground is an another popular WordPress hosting company. You can use a lot of services such as excellent shared, managed and WooCommerce hosting services.<\/p>\n

Here are all steps to guide how to set up WP Mail SMTP on Siteground servers.<\/p>\n

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– SMTP Host: example.com
\n– Encription: TLS
\n– SMTP Port: 587
\n– SMTP Username: It’s your email address (e.g. wordpress@example.com)
\n– SMTP Password: Your email account password<\/p>\n

3. Setting up WP Mail SMTP on HostGator<\/h3>\n

HostGator is a next hosting company in our collection today. It gains a lot of compliments and feedbacks from WordPress experts.\u00a0Here are details steps to set up SMTP settings that allows to connect WP Mail SMTP with HostGator server:<\/p>\n

Note: Hostgator allows to use your server name, instead of using your domain as the SMTP host. You can find the server name form your Cpanel hosting dashboard. Login your Cpanel and you will see the full server name in the right column towards the bottom:<\/p>\n

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SMTP Host: Full.servername.com
\nEncryption: SSL
\nSMTP Port: 465
\nSMTP Username: Your email address (e.g. wordpress@example.com)
\nSMTP Password: Your email account password<\/p>\n

4. Setting up WP Mail SMTP on DreamHost<\/h3>\n

Dreamhost is a popular WordPress hosting company. It offers shared WordPress hosting, managed and VPS hosting plans.<\/p>\n

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You will notice you that Dreamhost doesn\u2019t use your domain name as the mail server. They use different servers to manage emails. Therefore, you will need to find out which one is used by your hosting account. By logging into your DreamHost hosting panel and then going to Support > Data Centers page, you can do.\u00a0From here, you scroll down to the mail service section.<\/p>\n

Moreover, you can login into your Dreamhost hosting panel then go to Support > Data Center page and scroll to mail service section
\nAfter that, you need to visit Dreamhost’s email configuration page and scroll down to “Where to find your mail hostname” section. You can match your email with names in the table and copy the outgoing server address next to it.<\/p>\n

5. Setting up WP mail SMTP on InMotion Hosting<\/h3>\n

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These settings are all essential requirements when you set information for SMTP on InmotionHosting. You can connect WP Mail SMTP with InMotion Hosting servers by setting with the following requirements:<\/p>\n