Adds a simple mail configuration panel into your WordPress installation. Supports temporary logging and config variables.
As of April 2026, Simple SMTP is a WordPress mail plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 31K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Flamingo.
Adds a simple, no-fuss SMTP settings to your WordPress installation that lets you define custom settings, which is especially useful for hosts with no control over the php mail functionality.
If logging is enabled, a new segment in the settings panel will show up with a 30-day overview of recent emails, and will automatically prune older logs. Please see the FAQ if you want a more permanent solution.
For more information, please see the project wiki on GitHub.
This plugin will prefer environmental and constant-stored values over the plugin-saved equivalent settings, making it easier to use this plugin via deployment.
These can be either stored in your systems env setup, or in wp-config.php as define( 'SEE_BELOW', 'your_value_here' );.
Perfectly and elegantly meets my needs, the best STMP plugin I’ve used so far.
The Simple SMTP plugin truly lives up to its name, offering a straightforward and effective solution for managing email communications, especially when paired with MailPit. I’ve been using it locally with great success, and it has become an indispensable tool in my workflow.
Thank you for developing this module, it works great and currently it doesn’t include many other things that could bloat the site.
Lots of bloated SMTP plugins happy to take your money. I appreciate the heck out of this free plugin. It’s open source, works perfect, and does the job needed and only the job needed.
Does what it says.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Full Changelog: https://github.com/soup-bowl/simple-smtp/compare/1.3.4…1.3.4.1
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