SAR Friendly SMTP
A friendly SMTP plugin for WordPress. No third-party, simply using WordPress native possibilities.
4.6(46 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 10 months agoAs of April 2026, SAR Friendly SMTP is a WordPress smtp plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 46 reviews. It has been downloaded 35K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are up 16% this week. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
4.6/546 reviews
2.0K+active installs
35K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
There are A LOT of SMTP plugins for WordPress, some uses third-party libraries with no too much luck, others looks like the same plugin (almost identical source code) but with different name…
Most of them overwrites from address and from name fields ALWAYS, breaking functionality of some other plugins that send emails using wp_mail() function.
So the history repeats again, I can’t find one simple plugin that fits my needs, so I created one for myself and share it with you in the hope that you’ll find it useful.
If you’re happy with the plugin please don’t forget to give it a good rating, it will motivate me to keep sharing and improving this plugin (and others).
IMPORTANT: Support requests must be created using the Issues tab at the Github repository
Features
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Recent Reviews
Simple and Clean
by sayginer·1 year ago
It is clean and simple plugin. It does what is needed without annoying ads. Thanks!
Super leightweight. Just does the job!
by mahyulan·1 year ago
I used to use PostMan SMTP – now Post SMTP plugin, but this has become very annoying. Because it has become a bulky plugin that almost forces you to go to a paid subscription.
The Post SMTP zip file is 8,7MB, while this SAR Friendly SMTP is only 38kB!
Of course the other plugin has many more options, but if you just need the mail to be sent by SMTP this SAR Friendly SMTP plugin is absolutely fabulous. Therefore I just made a small donation.
Works fine
by Qorege·2 years ago
Thank you!
Perfect!!!
by Joseph·3 years ago
Perfect and tiny in size…just awesome
So far, so good! HTML mail at last
by jschoellen·3 years ago
We tried Postmark. We tried Post SMTP. They would either not deliver e-mails at all (via a SendGrid API relay)… or would only relay text versions. With this plugin, it just WORKED.
Thank you!
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 5This week: 51Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
99.5%
v1.1
0.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.6
- WordPress Coding Standards changes.
Contributors
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