Configure SMTP
Configure SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending email via SSL/TLS (such as Gmail).
4.9(45 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Configure SMTP is a WordPress smtp plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 45 reviews. It has been downloaded 369K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 27% this week. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
4.9/545 reviews
7.0K+active installs
369K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Configure SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending email via SSL/TLS (such as Gmail).
This plugin is the official successor to the original SMTP plugin for WordPress (wpPHPMailer).
Use this plugin to customize the SMTP mailing system used by default by WordPress to handle outgoing emails. It offers you the ability to specify:
- SMTP host name
- SMTP port number
- If SMTPAuth (authentication) should be used
- SMTP username
- SMTP password
- If the SMTP connection needs to occur over ssl or tls
In addition, you can instead indicate that you wish to use Gmail to handle outgoing email, in which case the above settings are automatically configured to values appropriate for Gmail, though you’ll need to specify your Gmail email address (including the “@gmail.com”) and pas…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
First thing I install on all my WP websites
by steadiflite·6 years ago
Configure SMTP is a staple of setting up a useful WordPress website, I would call it “a household name” for WP installations (if there’s any such thing as household names in this area).
Anyway, what a helpful, simple and great Plugin. Thank you, great work, @Scott_Riley!
Simple and functional way to configure SMTP settings in your WordPress
by Javier Carazo·7 years ago
Most of my users and customers ask me: why my mails are not being sent? Why some mails sent from my site do not arrives?
The problem are spam filters and things like this, so SMTP is a basic tool to operate a site or ecommerce.
I have used many plugin to do this task but none like this. This solves the problem in an easy and functional way.
Still works!
by pdwalker·8 years ago
There are some minor warnings under php7. See here for the fix: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-declaration-of-c2c_configuresmtp-with-plugin-installed/#post-9832908
Hopefully the author will be back to fix the warnings correctly.
The Best
by battarov·8 years ago
this is the only SMTP plugin that is working woth contact form 7 . so don’t wast your time with other alternative plugins , this one is the best and still working like a charm.
Fast and Simple
by sraymond44·8 years ago
Simple to install and configure. Had it working within minutes!
Download Trends
Today: 20Yesterday: 19This week: 126Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.1
60.5%
v3.5
38.8%
Other
0.8%
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Changelog
3.2 (2016-11-14)
- New: Add unit tests.
- Change: Handle ‘Send email via Gmail?’ checkbox changes with JS event listener rather than explicit ‘onclick’.
- Change: Move JS into file and enqueue rather outputting directly into footer.
- Change: Update plugin framework to 045. (Too many changes to list.)
- Change: Improve singleton implementation.
…and 31 more changes
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